I use my Macbook Pro constantly. My freelance work demands having a computer available all the time (I’m a tech guy for hire – I used to do systems admin full-time). I had a desktop workstation at one point which I built from scratch and I also had a Dell Inspiron 7500 way back. What a back-breaker that was. The MBP is a great machine – solid, powerful and decked out with plenty of peripheral ports (it’s a 2007 model). Since I knew I’d be using it so much, I wanted to minimize any risk of downtime. So I bought the AppleCare extended 3-year warranty. Yeah, I know…it’s a questionable move. But I had a similar extended warranty with the Inspiron back in 2000 and I didn’t regret it. Like, what do you do when the keyboard falls apart? Or the optical drive stops working…
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Is it just me or are the text renderings in reCaptcha getting harder and harder to make out? Some of them are absolutely inscrutable. Take this for example:
I mean, seriously, I can make out “explored” but what the heck is the first word supposed to be?
Firefox 3.1b2
Google Gears 0.5.4.2
You know what would be really faboo? If the devs for Google Gears figured out it was worthwhile looking at the non-compatibility issue with Firefox 3.1 and Google Gears. I know, I know, it’s free software and there are a million other things to get to. And they’ve said (unofficially) that by the time Firefox 3.1 gets out of beta they’ll be ready. The only reason I’m asking is this:
There are now a preponderance of sites out there now that are JavaScript heavy. All Google products, Facebook, MySpace, and yeah, WordPress – especially the admin backend which is now AJAX supercharged. So when you’re dealing with these sites a lot it really makes a big difference having a browser that can crank through the JS routines and render the damn page already. This is why I’m working with the beta version of Firefox 3.1 (actually, now the OSX optimized version, Shiretoko – there are Windows versions out there too) which has the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine enabled. It’s quite fast; incidentally I’m also testing WebKit, the Safari engine development version which is right up there too.
Anyway, FF 3.1 makes a big difference in shaving off my waiting time, especially here in WordPress-land. And incidentally, the kind folks at WordPress have incorporated Google Gears functionality to offload the download…load. Works great on WebKit/Safari, but since the Gears guys haven’t worked out the FF 3.1 compatibility yet, we’re still waiting.
Not a big rush, really…but it’s Valentine’s Day. Blow me a kiss, boys.
Spent a whole day on this. Thanks Hostgator.
PHP 5.2.8
Apache 2.2.11
Wordpress 2.5
Xinha4WP 1.2b
WPG2 3.0.2
A client’s WordPress install recently started giving them trouble. It’s installed alongside Gallery2 with the WPG2 and Xinha4WP plugins. They hadn’t touched their site in a while but now they found that when trying to invoke Xinha4WP’s Image Manager they would get a 404 page popping up instead. So it would have seemed that the path that’s either getting passed to the plugin or the way it’s being parsed had changed.
Disabled all the other plugins. That didn’t work. Upgraded WordPress to 2.6.5 (in case they’d made some changes that accounts for PHP quirks). No change. Contacted Hostgator and asked if anything would have changed in server settings that would affect the path (e.g. mod_rewrite, etc.). Nope. Reinstalled the Xinah4WP plugin in case Hostgator had somehow corrupted. Nothing.
Finally Googled (okay, now, this is after hours of Googling various things) “WordPress” and “hostgator” and it came back with the WordPress forums. Turns out, there was a recent modification to their Apache setup involving mod_security and suphp.
Contacted Hostgator, and oh yes. That was the problem. They did something on their end and it’s now fixed. &!^(#*@
I’m really curious as to why so much spam seems to be devoted to peddling watches. I mean, sexual enhancement I can kind of understand. But do I really want a Rolex? Is a Rolex equivalent to a “massive member that will have her moaning all night long?”
