Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Office Inconsistencies

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Mind numbingly stupid…
Say you’re using Microsft Word, you’ve got two documents open and two windows. And you’ve got two tabs on the.. err.. start bar thing. Clicking between the two switches you between the two windows. You click on the little X in the upper right corner. It closes the current window, and the other [...]

Upgrading WordPress

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Advice: When upgrading WordPress, make sure the database user has permission to create and alter tables.
That’s all.

UMPC

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

What’s up with Origami/UMPC and their attempts to create buzz?
Have you seen the UMPC Community website? Is this amateur night or something? The design blows. The illustrations blow. The intro flash that used to be there was pretty poor too. And it feels like it’s running on Mom And Pop’s Discount Shared Hosting.
Does Intel want [...]

Future Treos

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

So the Treo 700p has been pretty much confirmed. It is basically a Treo 700w running PalmOS. PalmOS 5. Geeze, this is pretty much the same OS that the first Palms (then called Pilots) came with. Sure, nowadays they run on ARM processors and emulate Motorola 68K processors (all the productivity benefits of coding and [...]

PHP, MySQL, and UTF-8

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

I don’t know what the PHP Web Application Component Toolkit (WACT) is nor have I ever used it but I have found their page on internalization and UTF-8 to be invaluable as I migrate databases, systems, and scripts at work.

PHP WACT’s page on internationalization/character sets/character encoding issues
PHP WACT’s page on UTF-8 and MySQL

Thanks!

ThinkPad Keyboards

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

ThinkPad keyboards in general have always been well received. I’ve used a couple here and there. I recently realized that as good as they are, the ESC key and the function keys are misplaced.
I realized this pretty quickly after triggering the Help in VIM a couple of times.
That’s a touch annoying.

Digg versus Slashdot

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

I’m a big Internet/information addict. And when I’m bored, I get annoyed that my favorite sites don’t update frequently enough.
This is where Slashdot came in. It doesn’t provide too much in original content (some interviews and Ask Slashdot, I guess) but that OK. It is more of a content/news/interesting link aggregator. with user commentary. Of [...]

Ruby on OpenWRT

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

I made passing mention of Ruby on OpenWRT previously and it looks like it garnered some interest. I haven’t had much time to play with it lately, but I figured I can make what I have available so others with more time can play too.
All of this was done and tested against OpenWRT White Russion [...]

WordPress 1.5.2 ported to PostgreSQL (unofficially)

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

As I mentioned previously, I’ve been working on a port of WordPress 1.5.2 to PostgreSQL. I had wanted to be the guinea pig and migrate my blog first but time constraints and shuffling priorities prevent me from doing so at this time. I’ve created many test installs and I think I’ve pretty much covered all [...]

WordPress 2.0 and PostgreSQL

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Ehh. Looks like there is a WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate. Wish I had kept closer track of that.
No, I don’t know if PostgreSQL support. Probably not. But the reason I bring up PostgreSQL is because I’ve been working on a WordPress port. It’s pretty nearly complete. Just a minor fix and cleaning up the installation [...]