Yearly Archives: 2004

Browser City

Currently installed on my iBook, for testing and for fun:

  1. FireFox
  2. Firebird
  3. Mozilla
  4. Camino
  5. Safari
  6. Netscape 7
  7. Opera
  8. OmniWeb
  9. Internet Explorer

That's alot of browsers ?. My default is Firefox but I have been using OmniWeb(5 beta) which is really nice. I also like Opera 6 (7 is not released for Mac yet). It's nice to see all these different browsers competing as it means that they are always trying to be better which is good news for developers like me as it means they will comply to standards. 🙂

Aggreg8 Stats and Soluveb

Hey Ho,
We are finally beginning to get our heads around having to live with diabetes (after all If Gill is on a special diet it means that I am too). Plenty of blod glucose monitor and needle gadgets to play with which is cool.

Over the last week I have been working on my Soluveb.com website which is essentially my way of getting web work. It's looking pretty well with valid XHTML1.1 and valid CSS. Check it out and if you know of anyone who needs some development done, drop me a line.

After seeing how many hits Aggreg8 has (184904) I decided to set up a stats page, It is a madified/tweaked version of MyPHP Stats. It's interesting to see what people are looking at and where they were referred from.

With my new hosting provider I can set up Add-On Domains, My mate (and flatmate) Al now has a website : nalakeogh.com, At the moment it is just his CV/Resume. I also have MyOggs.com hosted there.

I'll try to post more as work should start to slow down now with only 2 weeks left (who am I kidding).

Learning about Diabetes

Hey Ho cronies, I've not been updating lately as I have been v busy in work and also this weekend after a week of Gill being fairly ill, we decided to go to the doctor, who sent us to the hospital where after blood checks, it was found that Gillian has Type 1 Diabetes. We were quite shocked and it is still a bit awsome and overwhelming. It's a very weird condition as there is no way of perventing it and no way of predicting whether you will get it or not. Anyway, just to let y'all know why I haven't been in contact. I'm off to learn more about Diabetes now. One great thing about it is we'll have to start eating healthier now.

 

Weather isn’t always great!

philAs you can see the weather isn't always great in Sydney. This picture is taken on a day out at Watsons Bay. There was lightning too but I couldn't get it on camera, That would have been a great pictures eh?. I've been really busy lately with work and personal stuff too. I've found a really good (so far anyway) hosting provider [http://www.ivaluehost.net/]. This is where I will host Soluveb and it's clients webpages. I got a shared account (Standard) with upto 8 domains for US$5.95 a month, that's with 250MB Storage and 10GB bandwidth. It was a really nice admin section (CPanel). I am still waiting for the DNS entries to filter out. If it works out I might even move Philroche.net over there. Anyway Sya… Only 1 calendar month left in work wooohoooo!!!!.

ILife 04

phil I bought iLife 04 in my local applecentre today , I haven't installed the new Garageband yet but i have installed iPhoto and iMovie and they seem to be pretty smashing. iPhoto has been improved tremendously. It took a while for it to upgrade my photo library but once it had upgraded and loaded then it was miles faster. It still takes a while to load the library but once it has loaded….. it's like lightning (compared to what it was)… very pleased with it I am. iMovie seems to be quicker too but then again I never really used it before. So.. First impressions suggest that iLife was well worth the $79 I spent…. Go and get a copy now :).

PHP Life mantra

After reading Friday Five (I read it sometimes if I am lacking blog content). Today they had  a "what would your epitaph read?" question.. so in the form of PHP I give you , notexactly an epitaph but amusing none the less.
if($life == null && $fun == "had")   
    {
    die("happy camper");
    }
    else
    {
        while($life != null)
        {
            $fun =  "having";
        }
    }

Freak someone out.

Customizing Firebird even more with CSS…. You can override a pages css with this and also block flash and images and all sorts… If you detest blinking text.. you can now turn it off. It's really neat. I uploaded a whole load of new mp3s to my iRiver so i now have 2030 songs totalling 9 GigaBytes.. Plenty to listen to I'd say eh??. There was also a new firmware upgrade available which gave some new features.. I am still waiting for on the fly playlists like on the iPod. On another note … why does iTunes not have an option to export to m3u playlist format?? (there are applescripts to do it but hey don't seem to work).

Macs use a file system called HFS, hfs uses resource forks which stores details about any file in aother file of the same name save for a "._" prefix. This is really annoying when copying to a non HFS Volume (like my iRiver ). There is a way around this : use the unix cp command in the terminal which ignores the resource fork for the file.(the ditto command does not ignore it). So to copy from hardisk to my iRiver I used the following command :
cp -Rv /Users/philroche/Music/ihp100/* /Volumes/IHP-100/
This saved me a tremendous amount of heartache. HFS(Hierarchical File System) also stores a .DS_Store file in each directory which also show up sometimes in non-HFS  filesystems. I could just have recursively deleted these from the terminal but I found DS_Store Cleaner which is a GUI which does the same job. So with my cp terminal command and DS_Store Cleaner I am fully equiped to have a finely tuned MP3 Player (Albeit minus playlists).