The mistake is trying to use mod_php with a heavy PHP application, such as a a complex Drupal site, without a reverse proxy such as Varnish or nginx.

One trick I have been using for a few years is using Apache as a threaded server, with MPM Worker, and FastCGI but with fcgid, not mod_fastcgi. Works exceptionally well. For static files, Apache is now lightweight and does not use much RAM.

For details, see my article on Apache MPM Worker with fcgid.

I can confirm that ever since I switched to checking Twitter and Facebook (via TweetDeck) heavily on my Android phone (Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 then Arc), I have experienced wrist pain and numbness.

And yes, I spend a couple of hours daily, because I was following the news closely in a troubled part of the world.

Once I got those wrist cuffs that prevent the wrist joint from moving, the pain went away.

There is a project that provides scripting language capabilities for Android.

This means Python, Lua, Ruby, Perl and more ...

See sl4a for more details.

Essam Sharaf, the interim Prime Minister, has been a big disappointment.

Initially, a lot of hope was on him to make things better.

But as time passed, it turns out that he is too soft, and the military rulers do not allow him to have the authority to do things that are pro-revolution.

Speculation is that a second wave of the revolution will happen, aimed at the military junta (SCAF = Supreme Council of the Armed Forces).

In the Middle East, dictatorships made sure that no one can emerge as a competitor to the incumbent tyrant, and that has gutted two generations worth of politicians. Either they become servile to the tyrant, or they are eliminated (physically, politically, socially, or otherwise ...)

Also, remember that this is a transitional government still. He has not been elected by a public ballot. That will take around 8 months to happen.

Outside of the USA, there are lots of engineers, doctors, university professors, ...etc. who make it to be top political post.

It will take time to built a political cadre again in these countries, and many will be professionals, not only managers or lawyers.

Totally disagree.

I am typing this from a Kubuntu 10.04 laptop that is my only desktop, and it has been very stable.

My wife uses it too, as well as my daughter.

No problems.

We had lots of problems with the non-LTS versions that had KDE 4.x in them, when it first came out. Terrible experience, to the extent that I wanted to got Xubuntu. But the LTS came out decent and we stayed on that.

Do you hate Unity? Then use Kubuntu and be done with it. Works well.

Also, stay with the latest LTS (10.04 at present), and you don't have to upgrade for 3 years. Less headache.

Yes, very likely.

A famous football player there was killed in a car accident.

His father made a plea for people not to use smart phones or Blackberry devices while driving.

I meant Balkanization as a geo-political term meaning fragmenting an area.

That the Balkans is more advanced in mobile phones proves my point: the USA with all its might are not up to smaller countries because there are no common standards, and companies are allowed to monopolize frequencies AND control the handsets as well.

I wrote a comment a few days ago here about the intentional balkanization in the USA and Canada, where a network owns "spectrum" and handsets work only on that network frequencies.

Many decades before him, Averroes, a Muslim polymath born in Cordoba, Spain (d. 1198) was pondering the same questions.

In fact, Aquinas was one of many influenced by Averroes.

Averroes, wrote a treatise: Fasl Al Maqal, translated as "On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy", about faith vs. reason.

You can find the English and Arabic text here.

My mom had cataract surgery a while ago.

She works in clothing/fashion, designing garments for kids and the like.

She noticed after the surgery that violets are different. I asked my optometrist, and she said that the cloudiness in the removed lens is yellowish, and the brain compensates for it, and therefore she is seeing a different color/hue after the surgery.

She did not tell me she had Steve Austin powers so far ...

There is no spectrum shortage. Europe and Asia have no spectrum shortage, despite being more densely populated (generally), and all having the same handsets work on all networks. The decisions to buy a handset and the decision which network to subscribe to are totally separate. You buy the handset outright. No subsidy. No strings attached.

The urge to have balkanized networks is driven purely by networks wanting to fragment the market and put obstacles to their customers leaving for some other network.

I wrote about this re: Canada, and it applies to the USA as well. The only two markets that tie customers this way, and people accept it.

Read Mobile phone carriers lobby for more balkanization by asking for more "spectrum" and More balkanization and monopoly in Canada's mobile phone market.

This should be stopped!

There is no guarantee.

But there is hope for change to the better, where there has been none at all for 42 years.

-- An Egyptian ...

This link says it is $7.50 even ...

But, last time someone I know lost his phone, he bought an unlocked phone but had to pay $35 to get a new SIM.

Maybe that $35 included something extra, like preserving the number he had, or $25 of air time?