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Brilliant Gallery trouble: brilliant_gallery_checklist table doesn't exist (using table prefix): db name still not escaped - please fix!!

With the brilliant gallery module, I experienced some problems and error messages, consistent with this:

http://drupal.org/node/356346:

After installing the latest version I'm told this table doesn't exist. However, the code to create the table seems to be commented out in the install file.

fixed using the patch found here: http://drupal.org/node/517000.

Mono fails to build in Gentoo

Problem: On Gentoo systems mono fails to build when performing an update (emerge -u world) (Mar 2007)   Read more »

Mounting ISO-images in Linux

How to mount an ISO image in linux so you can use it as a normal file system.

1) Ensure kernel support for CD-ROM
(ISO 9660 CDROM file system support, Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions, Transparent decompression extension)

2)

~# mount -o loop -t iso9660 xyz.iso /mnt/iso/

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Grub config for booting Ubuntu installer from Harddisk

title  New Install
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall ramdisk_size=17000
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz