I’ve been running Panther since just after 10.3.1 came out. It’s been rock solid, a joy to work with, and it’s now been surpassed by OS X Tiger, 10.4. Tiger has a high standard to meet. We’ll see.
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Content Negotiation
I’ve been using Apache 1.3x for my web sites. Recently I upgraded one server to have Apache 2.0x. I had been using the “Options +Multiviews” feature to allow me to link to web pages without a file extension. For example, I link to /directoryname/something instead of /directoryname/something.html. This gives me flexibility if in the future […]
Wget and URLs with Ampersands
I just spent more time than I should have trying to figure out why wget was not retrieving web pages correctly. I’ve been using wget for ages with no problems. It turns out the ampersand & in the URL was behaving badly. The solution is obvious, once I found it buried deep in a discussion […]
Blocking ads in Firefox or Mozilla
I surprised myself, but Firefox is slowly getting my attention over Apple’s Safari. The latest feature I love is a plug-in called AdBlock. It blocks advertising images and some of the pop-ups and pop-unders that Firefox can’t block yet. I used a list at http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ of what to block. So far, it is working quite […]
X-Eudora-Settings
You can customize tons of Eudora settings by using s. They are mostly defined at X-Eudora-Settings.txt. All you do is copy the tag to a new message in Eudora. It will become a link, double click it, and then change the options. A very useful one is: . It allows you to change the text […]
I thought I understood web images
Just when I thought I understood how images work on the web; the differences between GIF, JPG and PNG; and when to use each type of image; along comes a new technology: color correction. The ICC (International Color Consortium) has a standard that allows for information about how an image should render by an application. […]
Aladdin’s MAMP
Cool, a stand alone version for the Mac of Apache, Mysql and PHP: MAMP.
Run DOS on a Mac
I’ve never needed to run Windows on my Powerbook, but have needed to run some old DOS programs I wrote. So I would either use the Windows XP machine at work, or my ancient Windows ME machine at home. But today, I found an alternative: DOSBox. DOSBox is a DOS emulator for Linux, Windows (why?), […]
Interesting Tool
I’m experimenting with RSS Digest. It takes news feeds and allows them to easily be included on other web pages.
Can’t Copy to Paste from PDF
I am researching audio formats for the Internet Caucus and found an interesting quote in a PDF. I selected the text, hit copy and got an error box asking for the document’s password so I could copy and paste. What purpose is that? I wanted to use one sentence from the file. Instead I had […]