To anticipate and prevent
I was called in tonight to fix an iTunes installation problem. When the user tried to uninstall iTunes, they got a popup box asking for a network location to iTune.MSI. When they pressed cancel (because the MSI file didn’t exist) it threw the error: “The installation source for this product is not available”. I checked…
I finally got around to setting up a proper web based viewer for SVN, ViewVC. It really isn’t difficult to setup (if you follow the directions). The main problem (to me) is that it uses Python (which I don’t). When I first tried to get it up and running I got a ‘An Exception Has…
So for along time now I’ve been running both Awstats and Google Analytics on my domain here. Mainly I watch Google Analytics because it provides me with much more “real” data. That being said Awstats has its uses too. Today I’ve been taking a look at both of them and I though I’d share what…
I’ve never been one to use mysqli in PHP, I’ve never needed to. Recently though, I’ve started using stored procedures, which necessitated the move to mysqli. Now, this really isn’t that big of a deal. After all, a search and replace of mysql_ with mysqli_ and adding the connection flag, and you are good. Here’s…
On slashdot this morning there was an article about a new website called TinEye. They’ve got a fairly simple but cool concept. Do for images what google does for web pages. You give TinEye an image and their magical search engine goes and finds similar images to what you give it — based solely on…
Penguins are awesome!!! So I went to Monterey on Tuesday with Lauren and Ange. The trip was mostly for them, I just happened to be there (and driving). I have to say that traffic going down there on a weekday morning was much less than I expected (which was pleasantly surprising). We started, of course,…