Getting Eclipse and Flex Builder to work together on my Kubuntu laptop was a lot easier than [node:1485,title="at work"] - because it's all 32-bit, mainly.

If during the upgrade of the Gallery2 module for Drupal you see an error like this:

all_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: 
First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 
'gallery_admin_settings' was given in /home/drupal/includes/form.inc

(and probably an empty or broken Gallery2 module admin. area) then all you need to is go to the theme admin. area and change a setting.
Any setting (I used the 'logo' toggle).
Save it, then change it back and save again.

Odd.

The (predictable) response from the government whenever anyone over the last 2 days has tried to tie the [node:1494, title="latest cock-up at HMRC"] to potential problems with the ID Card database, Darling says it'll be fine because they're 'biometric'. This is the same flawed mantra Bliar kept using, and it's bollocks- unless he's seriously suggesting that every time we buy a can of beans or talk to our banks, we have to present an ID Card, thus letting the government know exactly where we are and what we're up to.

As if things weren't bad enough (with the recent cost increase) with Labour's (no other party supports the scheme) ID card/database plan, they've just announced they lost bank, NI, address etc. details for every family in the country. All 25 million of them.

And they still don't get it.
The minister at fault told the Commons

To enable USB devices on a Kubuntu host to be used by guest operating systems in VMWare server 1, you need to two things.

There's one less Windows install in the world,
There's one more Kubuntu in the sky,
XP I'll never forget you
It's tough but I'm gonna get by.
There's one less place at Bill's table,
There's one less tear in my eye.
(with apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph)

If you just said 'yes', you want something Adobe is working on, not even in private beta yet, code named 'CoCoMo'.

The only reasonable way for the BBC to do it's job and offer it's iPlayer catch-up TV service (last 7 days TV on demand) across more than just one brand of Windows was using Flash.

People said that when the thing first came out.

And look... it has come to pass :-)

Projects like Adobe's Media Player and adding H.264 (high quality with low bandwidth use) support in Player are starting to make real sense now...

I've modified Josh Buhler's Mac cheat sheet for the Linux short cuts and attached it to this post.

Enjoy !

Two interesting posts over on the FlexCoders mailing list recently, related to Adobe's Thermo graphical design tool for Flex.