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So it seems this week I’m sharing a bunch of technical things, well here’s another.

I decided to sign up with Vonage VOIP service. I’m sure you’ve seen their bright orange advertisements on the metro buses lately — guess it worked for me. If you’ve ever come to by apartment, you know that there’s a big blackout spot hoving over my place and really limits any cell reception. I decided now that I couldn’t put up with it anymore and looked around for pricing plans — VOIP seemed to be the way to go for features/price. I signed up right now for the 500 outgoing minutes a month for $14.99. This is pretty sweet, it comes with a bunch of neat features that land-lines just can’t offer right now as well as national long distance and free incoming calls. If I really like it, I may move up to the Unlimited for $24.99. I’ll review the service in about a week as soon as I replace my crappy phone!

Oh yeah. And if you’re interested in joining, I can hook you up with like a month or two of free service. Happy Easter too!

So I decided to try it out and install OS X on my PC… yeah yeah, I’m ready for your giving me shit. I had problems at first with setting up a disk that was expandable (OS X said the disk wasn’t bootable), so I decided to try a static size disk, seemed to do the trick.
Anyways, I got the install to work:

And even to boot up!

But I’m not able to get the network up and running! It seems that Windows doesn’t like to allow you to share connections if you’re already running a private network and CherryOS is stupid and requires you to go through Windows for your Networking. But I just wanted to show ya’ll that it works!
(Pictures are for you, Jamie)

So I’ve been looking around for a good PHP 5 book that covers some advanced items. Well, I found one, it’s called: PHP 5 Unleased published through SAMS. Unfortunately, I bought it down at Barnes & Noble at retail price, however, I’ve included a link here to Amazon.com for those that want to check it out:

It covers some “advanced” items such as PEAR, XML/XSLT, Optimizing, Authentication, Encryption, OOP, Error Handling, Tidy, MIME Email, SOAP, File System, Network I/O, OS Access, Graphics, PDFs, and Regular Expressions.

Anyways. I haven’t of course read it all the way through, but today glancing at it, I’m glad a pushed out the $50 for it, however, I recommend getting it from Amazon the $32.99 price (or whoever else has it cheaper)!

Oh yeah, just FYI, I also bought FreeBSD Unleashed.

I just feel I don’t know enough about how to properly setup all the Linux/UNIX stuff and thought now that I’m graduated, what better time? I’ll let you know how it is.