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PHP sessions and serialisation are related areas and are usually easy. Today, while working on arcaic code from last century, I found a really horrible combination of limitations of PHP 5.2.x bouncing the project all over the place. I present the problems in the hope it will help someone somewhere.

Windows XP is so bad that I can only assume one or more of the developers are insane. Why else would they put so much effort into destroying something that works? Microsoft should offer a free upgrade from Windows XP back to Windows 2000.

An installation of Debian 5.0.5 AMD64 from DVD. The installation failed when I tried to use the disks in AHCI mode and had to revert to the old IDE mode. The installation then failed when I tried to do anything with disk partitions. Debian partition handling is worse with every release.

The A-RAM Ultra Series 64 GB SSD, ARSSD64GBU, appears to be reasonably priced for the speed. A first look does not show any special good features and highlights one bad feature.

Australians voted for a new federal government yesterday, only three political parties have a change of winning government, and not one of them has announced a single policy. Can you name a single Australian federal politician you would trust?

Disk Smith jumped in to the great population debate with a show on television and a Web site. He admits to suddenly discovering our overpopulation problem only a few months ago. Where was he more than 20 years ago when the problem was well known and advanced? Why is he now proclaiming his views despite his missing critical issues?

Bazaar or Git or Mercurial for version control? First Bazaar was in fashion then Git. Now Mercurial gets a lot of attention. There are only a few real differences and, with the release of Bazaar 2.0, those differences are going away fast.

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