Firefox tabs run down...
Another run down of my open tabs. A clear vie into despite how anal I am how bad I am at hoarding internet tabs.
http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/the-complete-guide-to-macwindows-interoperability-311618.php - Good coverage of some of the bumps that most home users will find when using both macs and windows together. All pretty solvable in my opinion.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/take_me_home_le.html - Wonderful piece on Leopard. All that we hoped it would be. Obviously there is no mention here of the re-written Kerberos mechanism that appears to be causing some slight nausea with regards to Active Directory interactions.
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/10/18/leopard-gm-build-apple-retail-sales-launch-free-t-shirts/ - This nearly encouraged me to go and buy at the retail launch but then I decided that £85 + queue for a "free" tee shirt was a bit much even by my standards. Anyway I was still a bit ill and tired.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/poll-os-war-2007/ - An amusing if less that scientific survey of Operating System preference.
http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/#/ - Further information on the vast array of menu bar tools. I believe my post of Safari tabs yesterday alluded to this fetish of mine.
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/wordpress-theme-hacks/ - A great article on using Wordpress as a CMS for any site. A theory I might put to practice quite soon with some people I'm trying to encourage to blog. For me the blogs are only supposed to be part of the sites.
http://uk3.php.net/array - I've been all over some cunning array stuff recently, this has been my bible.
http://www.bombich.com/software/lwm.html - An excellent resource from an Apple employee about macs in a lab environment and using open or more importantly active directories.
http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/bundles - I'm still trying to get TextMate singing to my tune past merely using it as a code editor. I'm using some of it's tricks just not many. It doesn't help that this feeds into my argument that PHP ain't real programming and thus it's support in text mate is a bit lack lustre. Although preview tools etc. are solid.
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/webmaster-intel-basics-25-tools-to-compile-an-in-depth-dossier-on-a-competitors-site/ - A bit of gurilar market research on the competition. Never would I condone such skulduggery though it does seem like fun.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7035152.stm - The number of times this guy hacks me off is quite large. I especially enjoyed it when he was forced to eat his words re Job and DRM free music. This piece gives quite a nice coverage of the Spanish FON idea and how BT in the UK is backing it.
http://uk.php.net/autoload - More daliancies in to OO Dev with PHP... real programming see.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself - I'm trying to use this more and more as a paradigm, it is hard though when a quick edit to solve the problem starts off with cheekily copying that well worn function and changing just the query ;-)
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html - An extreemly interesting piece about a guy that switched back to PHP after wrestling with Ruby and took the lessons he'd learned and applied them to his OO PHP Code
http://ilovetypography.com/2007/09/19/15-excellent-examples-of-web-typography/ - Furthermore in my quest to imitate good design I found, via digg, this discussion on typography. Whilst I don't whole heatedly concur with all the example. I am fond of a list apart and have been for some time, content as well as layout. Sean Inmann's site is lovely also.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7002612.stm - More FUD from Bill about some Monopolistic practices he alleges Apple undertake with their music player. Whilst I'd love to see the iPod more open I realise they've had to strike a balance between conforming with the industry to get services like ITMS running in the first place and making the device easy to use. To be honest I've had a couple of other music players and never felt the urge to tinker with them, they did the job I needed. Indeed by some measures you can run what you like on the iPod we've all seen the hacked iPods running iPod Linux etc. For me I can fill an iPod without once needing to buy music from ITMS hence Apple isn't locking me into any DRM jail since I can simple untick the "Protect" box when I rip my own CDs. I don't see what people's beef is with having to use iTunes to load the music on the iPod - if I had a Sony I'd need to use Sony Sound Stage... it's all the same.
http://blog.irisink.com/?p=8 - More information on Macs in a lab style community and working with mounted file systems on remote hosts.
http://www.macwindows.com/ADinstruct.html - And more active directory material for Mac integration.
http://www.macmax.org/article.php3?id_article=41 - For logging at work we like all internet traffic to be identifiable by user name, despite iDentD being a no brainier to fool / lie to / fabricate it make senior staff happy to see usernames next to yahoo.com when they look at a log file.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301446 - I was using this to attempt to auto start the iDentD server above when it failed on some users in the Active Directory.
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_read_system_mail_on_my_mac_os_x_system.html - I occasionally get stung with a sticky message in my System Mail account and I needed this handy guide to work out how to read and delete it.
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/06/apples-ipod-colors-growing-up/ - A great article about the new versus old Shuffle colours. I don't like the new ones, in fact I went completely out of my way and bugged my local Apple store to death to find me an old Orange one.
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/11/the_zen_estheti.html - Can't beat Gary's evaluation of Jobs' Gates compare and contrast.
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Subversion-on-Mac-OS-X - Again another tutorial on Subversion. This time with Fink.
http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/SubversionCheckout - Another text mate guide for use with the subversion server I keep promising to setup.
http://uk2.php.net/function.mssql-connect - Months ago a bunch of systems I wrote stopped working the module error'ing was related to the mssql connection. Our MSSQL database stores most of our records with my systems merely interrogating that database for bits and bobs, eg class lists, when required. The MSSQL server had been upgraded during out summer recess and all of a sudden I found I needed to connect to the SQL server on port 1156. Luckily I had been a good boy and had the connection strings in a separate file. So it was an easy fix once I knew how.
http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/sql-server-2005/security-features-in-sql-server-2005-for-the-developer.html - The upgrade had also broken my development user account at first to do I had to have a quick lesson in security objects in MSSQL 2005
http://www.out-law.com/page-4106 - A longer post about my annoyance at Dell will follow.
http://www.ed-u.com/kodak.htm - More retail law
http://mashable.com/2007/08/13/facebook-leaker/ - Well this was all a storm in a tea cup. The code appeared on my login at one point. I thought whilst it was interesting to see the magic I didn't see what all the brew ha ha was about. Amusing to know this guy got his 15 minutes of fame though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6944176.stm - Well this is getting more interesting. The ISPs in the US are bleating constantly about the costs they incur providing the service they charge for.
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/08/07/brush-rinse-toothbrush-brilliantly-simple/ - Stupid stupid stupid... this would merely fire water all over the bathroom. Unfortunately not all taps put out a lovely round stream.
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/omam/QUO.htm - A list of decent quotes from of Mice and Men. Tell me about the rabbits George indeed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6939816.stm - Some interesting ideas I expect will come out of this. the difficulty as I see it is as clever as we make technology there are always those want to make a fast buck by circumventing it. Little do they realise that at some point karma must catch up to them and they might find themselves unlocking their own stolen phone. My GPS does a clever thing. It has a pin mechanism that is "unrecoverable" but should you forget it you can take it to a specific location and it will reset.
http://all-streaming-media.com/remove-DRM-protection/FairUse4WM-freeware-DRM-removal-Windows-software-Strip-copy-protection-from-WMV-ASF-WMA-Windows-Media-Player.htm - Very useful this was recently. Legally a gray area, but I needed to move content, videos, (no not those kind of videos) from a machine that was trying to lock them in to another.
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/08/master-your-information-manifesto-21-tips-to-deal-with-info-overload/ - This is the kind of thing work place head doctors love.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/07/download-squad-first-look-and-gallery-apple-iwork-08-in-the-sp/ - Pretty good review of iWork, especially numbers. I love the pre done formulas and the high level parsing of "total tax" style interaction.
http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/the-complete-guide-to-macwindows-interoperability-311618.php - Good coverage of some of the bumps that most home users will find when using both macs and windows together. All pretty solvable in my opinion.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/take_me_home_le.html - Wonderful piece on Leopard. All that we hoped it would be. Obviously there is no mention here of the re-written Kerberos mechanism that appears to be causing some slight nausea with regards to Active Directory interactions.
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/10/18/leopard-gm-build-apple-retail-sales-launch-free-t-shirts/ - This nearly encouraged me to go and buy at the retail launch but then I decided that £85 + queue for a "free" tee shirt was a bit much even by my standards. Anyway I was still a bit ill and tired.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/poll-os-war-2007/ - An amusing if less that scientific survey of Operating System preference.
http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/#/ - Further information on the vast array of menu bar tools. I believe my post of Safari tabs yesterday alluded to this fetish of mine.
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/wordpress-theme-hacks/ - A great article on using Wordpress as a CMS for any site. A theory I might put to practice quite soon with some people I'm trying to encourage to blog. For me the blogs are only supposed to be part of the sites.
http://uk3.php.net/array - I've been all over some cunning array stuff recently, this has been my bible.
http://www.bombich.com/software/lwm.html - An excellent resource from an Apple employee about macs in a lab environment and using open or more importantly active directories.
http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/bundles - I'm still trying to get TextMate singing to my tune past merely using it as a code editor. I'm using some of it's tricks just not many. It doesn't help that this feeds into my argument that PHP ain't real programming and thus it's support in text mate is a bit lack lustre. Although preview tools etc. are solid.
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/webmaster-intel-basics-25-tools-to-compile-an-in-depth-dossier-on-a-competitors-site/ - A bit of gurilar market research on the competition. Never would I condone such skulduggery though it does seem like fun.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7035152.stm - The number of times this guy hacks me off is quite large. I especially enjoyed it when he was forced to eat his words re Job and DRM free music. This piece gives quite a nice coverage of the Spanish FON idea and how BT in the UK is backing it.
http://uk.php.net/autoload - More daliancies in to OO Dev with PHP... real programming see.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself - I'm trying to use this more and more as a paradigm, it is hard though when a quick edit to solve the problem starts off with cheekily copying that well worn function and changing just the query ;-)
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html - An extreemly interesting piece about a guy that switched back to PHP after wrestling with Ruby and took the lessons he'd learned and applied them to his OO PHP Code
http://ilovetypography.com/2007/09/19/15-excellent-examples-of-web-typography/ - Furthermore in my quest to imitate good design I found, via digg, this discussion on typography. Whilst I don't whole heatedly concur with all the example. I am fond of a list apart and have been for some time, content as well as layout. Sean Inmann's site is lovely also.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7002612.stm - More FUD from Bill about some Monopolistic practices he alleges Apple undertake with their music player. Whilst I'd love to see the iPod more open I realise they've had to strike a balance between conforming with the industry to get services like ITMS running in the first place and making the device easy to use. To be honest I've had a couple of other music players and never felt the urge to tinker with them, they did the job I needed. Indeed by some measures you can run what you like on the iPod we've all seen the hacked iPods running iPod Linux etc. For me I can fill an iPod without once needing to buy music from ITMS hence Apple isn't locking me into any DRM jail since I can simple untick the "Protect" box when I rip my own CDs. I don't see what people's beef is with having to use iTunes to load the music on the iPod - if I had a Sony I'd need to use Sony Sound Stage... it's all the same.
http://blog.irisink.com/?p=8 - More information on Macs in a lab style community and working with mounted file systems on remote hosts.
http://www.macwindows.com/ADinstruct.html - And more active directory material for Mac integration.
http://www.macmax.org/article.php3?id_article=41 - For logging at work we like all internet traffic to be identifiable by user name, despite iDentD being a no brainier to fool / lie to / fabricate it make senior staff happy to see usernames next to yahoo.com when they look at a log file.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301446 - I was using this to attempt to auto start the iDentD server above when it failed on some users in the Active Directory.
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_read_system_mail_on_my_mac_os_x_system.html - I occasionally get stung with a sticky message in my System Mail account and I needed this handy guide to work out how to read and delete it.
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/06/apples-ipod-colors-growing-up/ - A great article about the new versus old Shuffle colours. I don't like the new ones, in fact I went completely out of my way and bugged my local Apple store to death to find me an old Orange one.
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/11/the_zen_estheti.html - Can't beat Gary's evaluation of Jobs' Gates compare and contrast.
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Subversion-on-Mac-OS-X - Again another tutorial on Subversion. This time with Fink.
http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/SubversionCheckout - Another text mate guide for use with the subversion server I keep promising to setup.
http://uk2.php.net/function.mssql-connect - Months ago a bunch of systems I wrote stopped working the module error'ing was related to the mssql connection. Our MSSQL database stores most of our records with my systems merely interrogating that database for bits and bobs, eg class lists, when required. The MSSQL server had been upgraded during out summer recess and all of a sudden I found I needed to connect to the SQL server on port 1156. Luckily I had been a good boy and had the connection strings in a separate file. So it was an easy fix once I knew how.
http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/sql-server-2005/security-features-in-sql-server-2005-for-the-developer.html - The upgrade had also broken my development user account at first to do I had to have a quick lesson in security objects in MSSQL 2005
http://www.out-law.com/page-4106 - A longer post about my annoyance at Dell will follow.
http://www.ed-u.com/kodak.htm - More retail law
http://mashable.com/2007/08/13/facebook-leaker/ - Well this was all a storm in a tea cup. The code appeared on my login at one point. I thought whilst it was interesting to see the magic I didn't see what all the brew ha ha was about. Amusing to know this guy got his 15 minutes of fame though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6944176.stm - Well this is getting more interesting. The ISPs in the US are bleating constantly about the costs they incur providing the service they charge for.
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/08/07/brush-rinse-toothbrush-brilliantly-simple/ - Stupid stupid stupid... this would merely fire water all over the bathroom. Unfortunately not all taps put out a lovely round stream.
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/omam/QUO.htm - A list of decent quotes from of Mice and Men. Tell me about the rabbits George indeed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6939816.stm - Some interesting ideas I expect will come out of this. the difficulty as I see it is as clever as we make technology there are always those want to make a fast buck by circumventing it. Little do they realise that at some point karma must catch up to them and they might find themselves unlocking their own stolen phone. My GPS does a clever thing. It has a pin mechanism that is "unrecoverable" but should you forget it you can take it to a specific location and it will reset.
http://all-streaming-media.com/remove-DRM-protection/FairUse4WM-freeware-DRM-removal-Windows-software-Strip-copy-protection-from-WMV-ASF-WMA-Windows-Media-Player.htm - Very useful this was recently. Legally a gray area, but I needed to move content, videos, (no not those kind of videos) from a machine that was trying to lock them in to another.
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/08/master-your-information-manifesto-21-tips-to-deal-with-info-overload/ - This is the kind of thing work place head doctors love.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/07/download-squad-first-look-and-gallery-apple-iwork-08-in-the-sp/ - Pretty good review of iWork, especially numbers. I love the pre done formulas and the high level parsing of "total tax" style interaction.
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