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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
28-Nov-07eAccelerator.
No, it's not perfect English (Oxford, American, whatever… Standard {Written,White} English), but it makes its point clearly and concisely. Like a blog, it's still conversational (in a way technical documentation “shouldn't” be), but that isn't getting in the way of my understanding the content.
Yes, eAccelerator is easier to describe than the sprawling blob of PHP, [...]
Is this even English?
The first thing you'll probably want to to is get the source to build cleanly without using RPM. To do this, unpack the sources, and change the directory name to $NAME.orig. Then unpack the source again. Use this source to build from.
Wait, what? I mean, I'm even letting the complete Fail at [...]
So, about the RPM rant…
14-Nov-07When you people were telling me to go look at the spec files that you'd written for something else (which was helpful, in theory) or that I should really be using XYZ other Linux distribution (which was completely useless, so you can go get fucked again, still), what you really should have said was:
“Hey, dumbass! [...]
Realization of the Evening:
13-Nov-07Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)'s Spaces is conscious of multiple monitors. To the extent that if you hit its “preview all desktops” button with more than one monitor, it shows you the content of all of those monitors for all desktops.
Until I noticed this, I figured Apple was just playing catchup to Microsoft's deskman.exe XP [...]
RPM is still in the dark ages.
13-Nov-07It's either a blessing or a curse that I've never had cause to build an RPM down to the spec file until this evening. Well, really, I theoretically should have done this back during the summer, but it's the side job, and there was a faster way to get the new servers running (build a [...]
Mac OS X backups
12-Nov-07While Time Machine has been much-ballyhooed, it is not exactly a backup product (it provides continuous data protection—provided you keep the extra hard drive that you MUST use for Time Machine to work at all connected at all times), nor is it a host imaging product. It's good for “damn, I didn't mean to change [...]
The Flash font? Completely fucked. Unreadable.
Want to download files? Tough. You can't.
Maybe I just need to reinstall? (This is the same binary I was using pre-OS-upgrade.)
I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.9, after a pre-Mac OS X upgrade update, and this is a PowerPC machine (which I updated before the MacBook Pro I use most of the time [...]
Google Streetview cars back in Philly?
04-Nov-07On Hallowe'en or the day before (I don't quite recall, and I'm not positive I sync'ed the photos–only one is necessary to show everything here, really–off the iPhone the same day), I saw this parked outside my employer's office building:
That's the corner of 9th and Market streets (and yes, it's a legal parking space, though [...]
There, was that so hard?
04-Nov-07Yes, the right one finally arrived. (It's pretty good: as obviously dated as most '80s movies usually are, and not as flashy as the more recent movies based on the same book, but closer, or so a review I read claimed–I haven't read the book, to the original story.)
Incidentally, when I spoke with a human [...]