Archive for April, 2010

Moneybookers as a Paypal alternative for freelancers

Recently Paypal has faced some issues with RBI which has resulted in withdrawals being reversed etc. Moneybookers is a service similar to Paypal. Moneybookers is available as a withdrawal option in Scriptlance , Getafreelancer , Odesk.

Install SPICE on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit Karmic Koala

SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is a analog circuit simulator.
To install on Ubuntu get the .deb files from :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngspice/files/
Look for 17.binary.64bit directory.

Install xdebug profiler on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Install the following :

sudo apt-get install php5-dev
sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug

Find where the xdebug.so file is :

martin@martin-dev:/$ find / -name ‘xdebug.so’ 2> /dev/null
/usr/lib/php5/20060613/xdebug.so