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If you just download the firefox tar, then you’ll get an error:

 ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

or

./firefox-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by /home/cameron/firefox/libxul.so)

To fix this follow these steps.

cd ~
download the file: firefox-4.0.tar.bz2
tar xvf firefox-4.0.tar.bz2
cd firefox
download the fedora rpm: libstdc++
rpm2cpio libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
#note the lack of / at front of usr/lib in the line below
mv usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6* .
rmdir usr/lib usr

hope that helps..

Cameron
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I get the following when I install firefox 4 on ubuntu:

exec: 398: firefox/firefox-bin: not found

If you are trying to install firefox 4 for ubuntu, you also need

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

It’s about 40meg, and after that you can either run it from the command line (firefox/firefox) or double click on “firefox” from gnome.

I didn’t setup my svn in the standard way. Standard convention would say it looks something like this:

projecta/trunk/src
projecta/trunk/docs
projecta/branch/betabranch/src
projecta/branch/betabranch/docs

As I have previously posted, I don’t like the tools dictating how I should setup my source tree. So I have:

projecta/src
projecta/docs
projectb/src
projectb/docs

etc… projecta and project b interact with other (one is libraries).

but now I need a branch. So what I did was create a “branch” project for my “betabranch”.

So now I can easily branch the code with

I haven’t done the merge yet, so I might be in for some pain. We will see..

Cameron

G’Day,
I’m thinking of adding iptable rules to block out various countries from connecting to various ports/services on my machines. Does anyone have any experience on this? Is there a noticable difference between < 100 rules and > 2000, > 10000?

Cameron

G’Day,
The menu bug that caused gimp to crash on all platforms is fixed now.

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/

Here is the excerpt from the changelog:

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.9 to GIMP 2.6.10
==================================================

* Bugs fixed:

 613328 - TGA files saved with incorrect header yOrigin data
 623290 - Save As... does not save Windows Bitmap as default in dialog
 621363 - CMYK decompose broken
 595170 - brush - color from gradient works wrong in greyscale
 613838 - Error in gimp-hue-saturation PDB call
 622608 - GIMP crashes when clicking any scroll bar from combo boxes
 565459 - newly opened images are put into the background

* Updated translations:

 German (de)
 Italian (it)
 Romanian (ro)
 Portuguese (pt)

I’m almost certain this is wrong, but I’m keeping it as a note for myself:

I bought a macbook in October last year. It obviously cost more than $1000, and since I did not buy it in Australia there is not GST component (however, you might need to pay customs duty on entry to the country .. depending).

How do I depreciate this asset?

After some research, it seems that you depreciate laptops over 3 years.
Reference:

Using flat line depreciation: (equal each year).
Let’s say it’s $2001, and I bought it 18th October, 2009

First calculate number of days I didn’t have it
31+31+30+18 (number of days in july, aug, ..) = 110
Depreciation per year – $2000/3=$667.
Depreciation year end 2010: 2000/3*(365-110)/365 = $465
Depreciation 2011: 667
Depreciation 2012: 667
Depreciation 2013 (110 days) = rest = 201 (2000/3*110/365 = 200)

Also note that as far as I know, there is no rule to say it has to be bought in Australia! Crazy, so you also get the 50% small business tax concession
(so you can claim an additional $1000 in this case (2000*50%) on your tax return for 2010).

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This is not tax advise, nor financial advise, and I am not qualified to give either. But if you need help loosing money on the stock market, follow my lead.

After running out and buying a bunch of assets that I needed for my small business in 2009 and to take advantage of the Small Business Tax break (claim 50% extra depreciation). I now need to do all the accounting for these computers.

I bought a computer that costs $1038. And the rule says the asset must cost $1000 or more to be elligble. So since there was $94.36 in GST, is my asset is less than $1000 excluding GST. Is it: 1) a depreciating asset, and 2) elligible for the tax break?

Short answer: no to both. The item has to be at least $1000 exclusive of GST (so $1100 or more inclusive of GST).

Reference: http://minister.innovation.gov.au/Emerson/Pages/SMALLBUSINESSTAXBREAKBOOST.aspx

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This is not tax advise, nor financial advise, and I am not qualified to give either. But if you need help loosing money on the stock market, follow my lead.

There is a bug in gimp 2.6.9 which causes it to crash when you use the menus in a certain way.

It happens on linux and windows.

Cameron

G’Day,
You can get the latest development version from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.7/

You can read the notes for the release here:

http://mitch.gimp.org/release-notes-2-7-1.txt

If you have ubuntu you can get (easy) build instructions here:

blog.bloke.com: build gimp from source

have fun!

Cameron

We are going to build gimp from the directory $HOME/gimp/2.7.1 and install it into $HOME/gimp-2.7.1 or /opt/gimp-2.7.

Installing to my home directory allows me to have multiple copies of the gimp, and run which ever version that I want. So my tree actually looks something like this:
(my build files)
$HOME/gimp/2.7.1/gimp-2.7.1/
$HOME/gimp/2.7.1/gegl-0.12/
$HOME/gimp/2.7.1/babl-0.12/
(the install area)
$HOME/gimp-2.7.1/

Step 1. Start with a clean install of Ubuntu.

Of course you don’t need to do that, but I thought it was a great place to start. I did this by installing a version of 10.04 LTS Ubuntu 64bit on a Sun VirtualBox VM. If you don’t know what I just said, then just start with Ubuntu 10.04.

Step 2. Download the dependencies.

Step 3. Download the source files that we need to install.

Step 4. Pick somewhere to install

Now here we can choose where we want to install. The default is /usr/local/. (ie PREFIX=/usr/local), however that is known to cause problems. Personally, I want to have the installations and libraries seperate for each version, so that I can run whatever version of gimp that I want, so I’ll use PREFIX=$HOME/gimp-2.7.1. If you want to install system wide then use PREFIX=/opt/gimp-2.7.

Step 5. Start the build

You need “sudo make install” below if installing to /opt.

Step 6. Run the program

Now you can run gimp as:

$PREFIX/bin/gimp-2.7