Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Gawker is running an interesting story, Sarah Palin’s Personal Emails, about how Sarah Palin’s personal emails were leaked to Wikileak’s Sarah Palin Yahoo inbox 2008. Apparently an unknown individual loosely associated with the anti-Scientology movement Anonymous obtained access to gov.sarah@yahoo.com, Sarah Palin’s email address, and took some screenshots of the emails he found there:

It looks legit! The offending posts, screenshots, heretofore unseen family photos, and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan. But we have them. You want to read Sarah Palin’s email?

It’s kind of sad to see Palin’s email only has 174 total messages. I’ve been using email for hopefully less time than her, yet my gmail account has 48,163 email messages in it (say three years worth. Perhaps John McCain picked a running mate for VP as technically inept as he is.

Disclosure: I think Sarah Palin sucks for a VP pick.

Update: The suspect who allegedly hacked Sarah Palin’s email is University of Tennessee student David Kernell. His father is democratic state representative Mike Kernell. Interesting…

If you get the following command when trying to build a package from source on linux (Fedora 8 in my case), chances are you don’t have GCC installed:

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

The solution is simple, run one of the following commands to install a C compiler:

CentOS: yum -y install gcc
Fedora: up2date -i gcc

For me, this installed a few additional helper packages to get me started compiling C-code:

Installing:
 gcc                 x86_64      4.1.2-33             fedora              5.3 M
Installing for dependencies:
 cpp                 x86_64      4.1.2-33             fedora              2.9 M
 glibc-devel         x86_64      2.7-2                fedora              2.4 M
 glibc-headers       x86_64      2.7-2                fedora              599 k
 kernel-headers      x86_64      2.6.26.3-14.fc8      updates-newkey      746 k

If you’ve encountered this error while trying to build a PHP plugin or an Apache extension, then you’re simply missing the PHP-Devel package on your system:

-bash: phpize: command not found

To fix this, simple issue one of the commands, depending on your linux O/S:

CentOS:  yum -y install php-devel
Fedora: up2date -i php-devel

Personally, I run yum on my fedora machine, so I would simply use it to install the package. If you don’t have yum, check out Managing Software with Yum, a great guide for sysadmins.