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Will Online Poker Survive?

by admin on Jan.06, 2012, under Other

Online poker is a grey area in America.  There are no federal laws that ban the activity.  However, some politicians have tried to block online poker.  You won’t be able to play poker anymore if you are in the United States.
It all started in the late 1990s.  US Citizens finally had the chance to play online poker.  Some players are experts and they have been playing for many years.  Many people started to play poker through the internet.  Many kids even got really good through the internet.  They practiced by using multiple poker screens.  This gave them the advantage to improve their poker game much quicker than other people.  One of the most popular sites was Party Poker.  It was one of the initial poker sites and it continues to be popular.
How can you get in trouble for playing poker?
You would get in trouble if you started an online poker site where people could game.  You would notice that many of the big companies are situated outside the United States.  They are put into countries that consider it legal and they allow them to hose poker on the internet.  If they were in the United States, they would be closed down immediately.
Starting in 2012, there has been a lot of talk to finally legalizing it.  Nevada already passed rules on how to regulate the websites.  California intends to bring up legislature later in the year.
Why isn’t it already legal?
Before it can be legal, it needs to have all the laws to regulate it but also they need to generate money for the states in case there are issues.  Many countries are also looking further in the issue to legalize poker.  The US can lead or follow but eventually there will be more poker sites on the web and they will continue to spread.  The US can either watch poker sites get built or create them in the own country.  If they have them in the US, they can at least generate revenue.  However, if they are not in the US, they will lose revenue to other countries that support legalizing poker.
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Turn On Your Lamp – Easy Apache/PHP/MySQL Install on CentOS for Web Developers

by admin on Feb.15, 2009, under Other

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
find [centosplus] and locate:
enabled = 0

change to

enabled = 1

yum install php php-mysql mysql-server php-gd postgres ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel

Now you got php, mysql, graphic manipulation, and posgres installed.

Let’s setup your MySQL:
/etc/init.d/mysqld restart – after you run this, you will get a bunch of useful text, read it!
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password ‘CHANGEMETOHARDPASSWORD’
/sbin/chkconfig mysqld –level 2345 on  – lets mysql startup on reboot

Now you have PHP installed with common libraries such as image manipulation and postgres and mysql for database work.

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Yay!

by admin on Jan.25, 2009, under Other

This blog is setup mostly for my documentation purposes so when I setup servers or do web development that I have a central place to lookup common tasks.  If I find anything cool and interesting, I’ll post it here too.  Feel free to add comments or questions on anything on the blog though.  I’ll try to keep everything easy-to-understand and technical at the same time.

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