All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
I’ve been giving the new weblog tool, ecto, a spin and here are some notes and comments regarding this potentially useful blog tool. The tip (scroll down to Q6) about configuring your MT blog to allow “draft” postings does work. After publishing, the site isn’t rebuilt. Publishing also causes a “No valid XML data in … Read more
Item 1: The recently received email touting the new RealOne player neglects to mention that there is no update for the Mac client. Item 2: If you lose access to
The answer to that question may be found in a very detailed article at kernelthread.com. Written by a recent Mac convert who was asked to give an overview of OS X to a local Linux users group, the article is very technical in nature and has exposed me to aspects of the system that I … Read more
The Macworld Expo is being held this week in San Francisco. Being a relatively new Mac owner, I thought I would check out the event in person (having seen it on the local TV news many of the past 20 years!). After watching a streaming media webcast of Steve Jobs’ keynote (convinced more than ever … Read more
Happy New Year! Random observations after a week of mac-hacking: Dreamweaver mostly sucks, but I don’t know of anything better for small web site management (for managing my non-Movabletype content). Iview Media Pro 2 is a very fine solution for managing a medium sized collection of images. It’s a very full featured program, easy to … Read more
I found an excellent tip describing how one can use the (free with recent Macs) GraphicConverter program as very good thumbnail image explorer. I’ve been using PhotoExplorer, from Ulead, both on the PC and the Mac, and while it has all the features I want from such a program, including: * resizable thumbnails * variety … Read more
I joined the ranks of firebird and thunderbird users today. So far, firebird hasn’t had any problems rendering the sites I’ve visited, and setting up thunderbird to access my imap mail account was very easy (since both are based on mozilla the dialog boxes, etc. are very familiar). What’s interesting is how and why I … Read more
I just noted, after reviewing my movabletype log, that mt-blacklist has already blocked at least 4 comment spam attempts. Yeah! Temporary victory or no, it’s still one to be savored. Having been a mac owner for less than 2 months (15″ pbook; love it!) I was pleased when a recent tip of mine was published … Read more
Note to self: if you’re trying to set a terminal’s name via “File->Set Title…” then by all means, please be sure that your /etc/bashrc file does NOT contain code similar to the following: PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne “33]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}07″‘ If the code is present, then with certainty, the next time you launch the terminal that code will override … Read more
Shortly after I got my powerbook I moved my hp 970cse printer from my XP box over to my new mac where it’s been working fine. I’ve recently had need to print to this printer from other, (not yet converted to mac), computers in the house. Enter this tip, which solved my problem quite easily. … Read more