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YouTube Disco is YouTube’s new toy, where you can search for a song or artist and start listening right away. Service also includes videos and it’s free.

Where we have lost the line? Do not get me wrong I’m really a fun of Google’s works and services. I like their business approach and customer satisfaction policy. They are giving best free online mail service with POP3 and IMAP support. Nearly all of their services are free. But they started with a search engine. Then they added social web services. Bought every major company on their way like YouTube. Created a mobile phone product. Working on their own OS, GoogleOS. Started serving public DNS service. Trying to change e-mail system with their own way, Google Wave. Lots of products Google has created could be observed easily very successful and harmless if they are not considered with a wide angle of view. Now Google is preparing to enter ISP business. You got the big picture? Another monopoly firm that takes control of every communication technology. Their policy as now is nothing like that. They do their business and earn money from their advertisement systems and their services. But with this much control power and that much income it will be only a matter of time for them to turn Dark Side. I hope they will continue to extend their portfolio, because they are really good in this business and they give more service to customer much more cheaper. For now on IT sector no other firm is better than Google, even there is much more evil firms trying to earn money by doing nothing.

Only solution for avoiding a company to take control over electronic communication systems is simple, using and forcing open standards. On the wave started with Mozilla Firefox we have been able to come these days; where web is not restricted to one specific browser or OS and free for everyone. Support open standards like Google do and use them. Only this way companies like Google will continue to preserve their quality of service and Internet will be free as in freedom and free as in beer.

Many times I found myself trying to figure out how to work with 32 bit Xdebug on 32 bit LAMPP server on 64 bit linux. I have done exact same searches on Google over and over again in time. So I decided to mix those informations up once and not to search Google for this subject again. I assume that you already know about Xdebug and LAMPP server.

First thing to do is to install XAMPP for linux on your system. There is nice explanation about how to do this on it’s own site, so i think this won’t be a hard task for any of you geeks or nerds.

Second thing is to download and install development package for XAMPP on linux. It could be installed the same way and of course there is an explanation for that too.

So you have downloaded, installed and configured (secured) your XAMPP for linux and it’s development package. Surpirse! Development package was not needed. Really, you could done the all procedure without installing development files, but I insist on installing those files because they probably will be needed for others things you would try to do in feature.

And yet comes the tricky part. If you are using a 64bit linux system like I do, trying to compile Xdebug as 32bit extension for PHP on a 64bit compiler, don’t do it. Well, I am sure about it there is a way to do this right but my opinion is trying to this is really pain in the **s. Our trick to get Xdebug extension without compiling it is to visit this website which has remote debugging packages for Komodo IDE. You will need 32bit linux “PHP Remote Debugging” package. There is your 32bit compiled Xdebug extension, in somewhere on that package.

Next step: “cp xdebug.so /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions”, with something like this command, copy your Xdebug extension to your php extension directory on your LAMPP install.

If you had no problems until here, then your job is nearly finished. Only thing left to do is to tell your php installation to use Xdebug as an extension. Adding these lines to your php.ini

[Xdebug]
zend_extension = "/opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/xdebug.so"
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "/tmp/xdebug/"
xdebug.profiler_enable = On
xdebug.remote_enable = On
xdebug.remote_host = "localhost"
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"

will do the work. But remember you can not use Xdebug extension with Zend Debugger together. You have to choose one of them. If your installation is configured to work with Zend Debugger, please disable it.(by commenting out the Zend Debugger extension)

That’s all and your 32bit Xdebug extension on 32bit LAMPP installation on a 64bit linux should work fine. Feel free to leave feedback.

Also if you like to compile your own Xdebug here the sites I found while i was searching over and over:

Install ‘xdebug’ PHP extension for XAMPP on linux

Getting Xdebug to work with Apache/XAMPP to debug PHP

I put some code on site about linux network programming. It is a very basic work indeed, actually i wrote this code as a homework for my school. But if you need something like this anyway, feel free the use.

http://toreuyar.net/projects/linux-network-programming/

Since I live in Turkey, there should be no word is necessary to explain the image below:

For my colleagues, technology and internet fans: Google is about to launch a new messaging platform Google Wave. It looks nice, may ne you want to check it out. Here is the original link of Google Wave and the looooong* video of it.

http://wave.google.com/help/wave/closed.html