05-Nov-06
Version 3.0.1 Now available for download. Leopard compatible.
23-Apr-06
Presenting the Top 5 reasons I hate my new MacBook Pro.
- Ability to fry eggs on the top of it after 15 minutes of light use
- Trackpad size increased to the point of impossibility of not having some part of your hand on it when trying to move mouse
- New Magsafe connector insists on removing automatically when slightly moving laptop
(Resulting in fun, "Oh, it didn't charge" moments.)
- Lack of PCMCIA card support, and no possibility of ever getting an internal CF card reader
- What are you crazy, look how expensive it is
22-Apr-06
Well after many years of trusty service my Pismo Powerbook G3 finally died.
Rest in peace my good friend, you were the last great laptop Apple ever made. With a possible battery life upward of 9 hours, you were the undisputed master of your domain. Even though you were over 6 years old you still ran the latest system release with ease. Sure, your age was starting to show, you had developed cracks next to the battery doors and latch assembly, and your screen inverter was starting to transform everything into a cool shade of pink. But, you were the best. Walk towards the light my friend and live on happily in silicon heaven.
08-Feb-06
I found and fixed an error with my
run2 utility where case sensitive passwords would sometimes be normalized. Get your updated version
here. I notice people are downloading it, if anyone has any comments on it I'd welcome them.
06-Feb-06
So today I finally switched over to the dark side. Yes, this website now runs some limited PHP scripting. I don't think that I will ever switch the main back end processing away from Perl but for smaller tasks and SQL opperations PHP makes a lot of sense.
The main problem I had in doing this though was figuring out how exactly to feed PHP script content into my Perl based nateObjects application. After some searching and tinkering I found that you can backTick the PHP compiler like any good console application.
$variable = `/usr/bin/php -f /script.php`;
If you have php installed in a known path you probably can get away with just calling php without the path. This seems to work pretty well (just remember not to have your PHP script output headers) but as to what effect it has on server performance I won't know for a couple days.
catalina margarita
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