When using open source makes you an enemy of the state | Technology | guardian.co.uk
When using open source makes you an enemy of the state | Technology | guardian.co.uk. Apparently the IIPA is looking to make open source software illegal—or at least extremely difficult to use. They seem to dislike the fact that OSS cuts into their bottom line, so rather than let the market make its own decisions, [...]
iTunes Error: Store Can’t Connect to the Internet
I spent some time last evening troubleshooting an iTunes error on his computer. Anytime he tried connecting to the iTunes Store, it would kick back an error that it could not connect to the Internet. Googling around turned up a handful of solutions, few of which worked. Turns out the solution (in this case) was [...]
Adobe CS3
Well, I manage to score a copy of Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software, which includes a lot of really powerful software including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, and more. Normally, this package runs about $1800 brand new, but thanks to the perks of being on staff at Purdue I was able to grab [...]
Knowledge Base Documentation Woes
I have something against Knowledge Base modules. My complaint is this – they’re all crap! Knowledge Base modules are supposed to be this repository for a given service, and this repository is supposed to provide all kinds of helpful Q&A-type articles to make using the service easier and more efficient. They’re typically intended to be [...]
Peripheral Twitter
I just can’t quite get into Twitter. I’ve got Twitterfox installed on my Firefox browser, but I don’t really use it all that much. I don’t really have the time (or window space) to keep a constant monitor on what’s being talked about. It’s much more efficient and effective for me to communicate via chat [...]
Photoshop Portable
You know what I wish for? A way to make Photoshop portable, aside from buying a laptop and installing the software on there.
WP-Stats Problems
I don’t track my blog stats quite as religiously as I did a year ago, so it was a couple of days after I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 before I realized that something very strange was happening with my stats. I switched to WP-Stats awhile back because it’s lightweight and takes some of the load [...]
Tumble Shamus
My tumblelog is officially up and in working condition. I’m using the T1 theme, which is built on the wonderful Sandbox, much to my great joy. I did modify the theme somewhat, though, removing the default T1 image in the header and restoring the bloginfo(‘name’) and bloginfo(‘description’) fields to their proper places. I also brought [...]
WordPress 2.3
I’ve successfully migrated this blog to WordPress 2.3, and I was actually a little surprised at how painless it was. I did turn up a handful of duplication errors with regard to the wp_term_relationship tables, even though I’d made sure I deleted those tables beforehand, but in spite of that, I think everything migrated to [...]
