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Spent a week on the NYSE floor clerking for a customer, his clerk took a vacation to Key West. I'll tell ya, I love the job, hate what it does to my feet, ankles and knees. It was really good to see all my friends again, and to hear the bell, eat like we do, etc....

but it's gonna be back to workin' the program after this week.

P.S. Chrissy graduated last Wednesday, the ceremony was at Radio City Music Hall of all places, WOW.

Congratulations Chris and all the best of luck, Love DAD.

Tha School of Visual Arts had a screening yesterday, Chrissy's film was well received. We were so happy when laughter arose from the crowd several times during her film. During some others it was quite quiet. Some of the animations were very good, looking very professional in every respect from opening title to closing credits, even down to having business cards and promotional postcards. Some of these students will do well in the world, but may have to move to California to do so. Kudos to all the SVA 2006 class.

Mysql5 Php5 and Apache are living nicely on Atlas. Boss is comming along nicely. Boss is Brokerage Operations Support System and it's my all engrossing project right now. I want to use the new features of MySQL and Php 5 with Apache 2 or maybe 2.2 if it's better in some way. As always it'll be better with a little help from my friends. Got the trade data sorted out ok, now I need to stitch the customer side of the database together in a logical fashion, and link these to the trades and orders. Most of this is being done using SQL.

Success, Php5.1.2 is compiled. Very excited, but I'm gonna get straight to work and I'll document what I did here on a special page. More too come.

Now let's compile Apache2.2. 1st get the latest source tarball from Apache.org, then move or copy the file to the /usr/src directory. Next extract the files, I cheat, I use Nautilis and Archive manager. The command lines are 'gunzip httpd-2.2.0.tar.gz' then tar something or other, I'll look it up later. Next, 'cd httpd-2.2.0' and type './configure --help > conf.help' as the output from this is large so capture it in a file and open your favorite editor, (I'm not going to get into a fight about emacs v.

Now I know I'm gonna be poopoohed about this but I'm gonna login as root for all this just to make things easier. I know, but I'll login as me after this is all done. Since we've got a running CentOS4.2 system now, go to MySQL and get the rpm's for RHEL4(x86). Server, client, headers and libraries and shared libraries should do, I don't think we'll need the debug stuff. Now lets put things in their place. I'm gonna create a new directory in /usr/src and call it localrepo and move the rpm's there.

OK! I told you if I found out how to solve my problem with Mysql5,Php5,Apache 2 or 2.2 with mysqli extentions on linux the world would read about it here. A friend built a system just like I need so I'm gonna do a fresh install of CentOS on Atlas and see how it goes.

I'm going to detail the installation of CentOS 4.2 here but it applies equally to FC and Red Hat. Some things are just obvious. Once you've backed up any thing you want on the drive your going to install on, boot the computer with the CD/DVD, hit enter when prompted to boot. At the welcome screen there's nothing to do but click next. Language selection is next, then keyboard type, I use english but you might use something else for these. Next comes installation type, desktop, workstation, server, custom. I generally use server or custom that way I can pick the packages I want in the system.

We are so close to submitting Les-Sacs.com to Google and others that I can taste it. I'm sure that once we get this going we should be able to offer eCommerce soultions to all our clients at CMRweb and CMRny.

My take on the Rad Hat based distros: