I had two problems with this site this morning. In the first I got burned for not testing something, in the second I got burned even though I tested. You’ll notice that the “OS News and Rumors” box that I mentioned here is now gone. When I added the YouTube videos here the formating of my site got all screwed up. Now, I had never embedded a YouTube video before so I did it on my test site first. It worked fine, no problems. I cut and paste into the [...] Read the rest »
Novell Spoofs “Get a Mac” ads
Novell’s put out a couple “Get A Mac” spoofs which I found amusing. Here they are… The embedded videos screwed up the new theme. Until I figure it out you’ll have to head out to YouTube to watch the video. Sorry. The second video is here. via wired Read the rest »
Success!!! Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2 on Yahoo Hosting
I finally got my WordPress installation upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2 from WordPress 2.0.2. I had installed WordPress 2.0.2 through the Yahoo control panel. I’d been unable to successfully upgrade, just getting a blank page when running upgrade.php. I’d followed all the instructions from WordPress for the upgrade. I’d assumed it was related to Yahoo restricting .htacess or a plugin they created to do permalinks. But I tried one more time a couple days ago with the same result. I finally found this thread on the WordPress support forum that had [...] Read the rest »
Auto Generate Broken Links
I’ve been looking around over on Google’s Webmaster tools. They’re reporting a growing number (now 24) of “404 – Not Found” errors when crawling the site. Sure enough, the URLs are bad. Most also seem to be for a second page of categories or second page of a days posting. At first, when the number was low, I did some searches, thinking I had used the URL someplace but never found it. I just noticed that when a category list, or a days posting are displayed, there’s a “Previous” link [...] Read the rest »
Mini Posts Plugin for WordPress
I just added he Mini Posts plugin on this site. If you look over on the right sidebar you’ll see a “OS News and Rumors” box. Items shown in that box won’t appear in the main blog. On my list of things to do I was looking for a way to add short posts to this blog without clogging up the main page. I also wanted a quick way to do it since it wasn’t worth a lot of time to me. Some templates I’d looked at in the past [...] Read the rest »
Ars Technica: Leopard not ready for April
Ars Technica has an arcticle proposing June as a release data for Apple Leopard. Read the rest »
WordPress Plugin For Importing New Blogger Blogs
I was looking for a way to import my Spam Chronicles blog, which is hosted on blogger, into WordPress. I came across a plugin that can import from the new Blogger. It worked great for me, although I admit t having a small blog. Only 8 posts and no comments. Check out the Blogger RSS Import plugin. Imports from the new Blogger are now supported directly in WordPress. Read the rest »
DigiTimes: Apple reportedly to postpone Leopard to support Windows Vista
Apple reportedly to postpone Leopard to support Windows Vista Digitimes is reporting that Apple is delaying Leopard until October. They say it’s so Apple can work on Vista Compatibility (with bootcamp). I’m actually hoping it’s true, I’ve got too much else to work on and I know I’d drop everything to get going with Leopard. Read the rest »
Mozy Mac Software Updated to Beta Version 0.4.0.8
Mozy updated the Mac beta software to version 0.4.0.8 (18248M). The previous version was 0.4.0.7. If you don’t have automatic updates set you’ll get a notification with an option to install. First thing I noticed is that Mozy now included the backup history detail. Previously it had only recorded that the backup happened (or failed) but did not include the file details. Now the history screen properly shows the details. I haven’t noticed any other changes in the short time I had it. After using Mozy over the weekend I’ve [...] Read the rest »
The Problem With Microsoft
I came across this Microsoft Technet article today. It’s the “Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Step-By-Step Guide”. You’d think warning bells would have gone off at Microsoft when this was created. It’s a road map to designing an activation strategy and infrastructure that Microsoft’s volume costumers can use. Activation provides no benefit to the company (most large companies already have license tracking solutions) and adds another layer of complexity that will have problems. Maybe it was the mood I was in, but just the fact that this document needed to [...] Read the rest »
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