Experienced a weird problem with a fairly new OS 10.5 machine today. My boss had spent the past couple weeks configuring an install of 10.5 on an external FW drive (keeping the 10.4 install on the local drive so as not to disrupt work for days on end while configuring / installing apps) and the time [...]
Anyone that is a python developer and that uses mysql will tell you getting MySQLdb can sometimes be a bit of a pain, and every time I reinstall my system I have to dig around to find the instructions to build it properly.So this time I thought I would document what I did on my [...]
So, I was reading The Night the IETF Shut Off IPv4 last night and came across something weird; I could access all of the IPv6 sites mentioned in the comments…waaahhhtt?? :-/
Went to http://www.ipv6.org/, it says “You are using IPv6 from 2002:42b0:596d:0:219:e3ff:fe06:9d3f”
Went to http://www.sixxs.net/tools/ipv6calc/ and it also said I was using IPv6 also but [...]
I often wondered if the custom style sheet support in safari could be used to do rudimentary ad blocking, turns out it can
Check out http://www.floppymoose.com
I kind of like this idea because it doesn’t add any more cruft onto safari that has the potential to crash plus I’m not super adverse to seeing ad’s [...]
Sander Devrieze of the conccinella project explains his opinion as to why mutli-protocol clients (such as my beloved Adium) are hindering the adoption of Jabber/XMPP into the mainstream. I would have to agree with him on most of his points he makes but I am kind of at a loss to use anything else, [...]
Often when people are developing websites on their mac they have two options for running the code and testing. One is to write the code in your editor of choice on your Mac and proceed to upload it to the (normally collocated) web server then try the page in your local browser - and [...]