Unfortunately this takes a bit of work, the one in the etch repositiories is too old so you're going to have to build you're own sources and install manually.

Add Repository / Increase Cache Limit

So first off add the testing repository to your list of sources

cd /etc/apt
sudo nano sources.list

Then add the testing repository (here for the UK) and save the file

deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main

Now before you update your sources list increase the size of the package cache by,

nano /etc/apt/apt.conf

And add,

APT::Cache-Limit "16777216";

...now when you update your packages cache you shouldn't get an out-of-space error, finally update

sudo apt-get update

Build Packages

First create & move to your sources dir

mkdir /sources
cd /sources

Next grab the tools needed to compile the sources

sudo aptitude install devscripts

Next we'll check if we need anything extra for libevent

sudo apt-get build-dep libevent

And grab & build the libevent source

sudo apt-get source libevent
cd libevent-1.3e
sudo debuild -us -uc
cd ..

Then install libevent and it's development package

sudo dpkg -i libevent1_1.3e-3_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libevent-dev_1.3e-3_amd64.deb

Next we'll test if there are any build dependencies for memcached

sudo apt-get build-dep memcached

Then grab & build the memcached source

sudo apt-get source memcached
cd memcached-1.2.2
sudo debuild -us -uc
cd ..

Finally install memcached

sudo dpkg -i memcached_1.2.2-1_amd64.deb

You should now have a working install of Memcached 1.2.2 on Debian Etch.

Got the full-text searching working with the blogging engine, plus it's really fast using the Ferret gem and Will Paginate.

First grab the necessary gems,

sudo gem install ferret acts_as_ferret will_paginate

Then,

require 'will_paginate'
require 'acts_as_ferret'

Next up I defined the elements to search against in the target model (here app/model/article.rb)

acts_as_ferret :fields => [:title, :body, :cached_tag_list]

And then altered the search method to...

@articles = Article.paginate_search params[:search], :page => params[:page], :per_page => $blog.article_count

...you will need to add this class method to handle the pagination with Will Paginate

module ActsAsFerret
  module ClassMethods
    def paginate_search(query, options = {})
      page, per_page, total = wp_parse_options(options)
      pager = WillPaginate::Collection.new(page, per_page, total)
      options.merge!(:offset => pager.offset, :limit => per_page)
      result = find_by_contents(query, options)
      returning WillPaginate::Collection.new(page, per_page, result.total_hits) do |pager|
        pager.replace result
      end
    end
  end
end

...thanks to opensoul.org for this solution.

Works like a charm ;-)

• use ALT+3 to get # (mac)
• use Command+F12 to access FireBug in Firefox (mac)

A long time coming Adobe have finally released a 64-bit version of their Flash Player and it's for Linux.

It's in Alpha but reports suggest it's actually quite stable, so good news all around for us with 64-bit Ibex machines ;-)

• Adobe Flash Player 10 - 64bit Linux

You'll need to uninstall you're current Flash Player via either...

sudo aptitude remove flashplugin-nonfree

Or going into your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory and removing the old version.

To install simply download the tar file relevant to your distro, extract the plugin and drop it into your Firefox Plugins directory ~/.mozilla/plugins

Restart Firefox and you should be good to go,

to access the Firefox Configuration area, type this into your address box and hit enter...

about:config

If you completely screw things up you can reset to the defaults by...

• Start Firefox in Safe Mode
• Check the Reset to Defaults box
• Click the Make Changes and Restart button