April 27, 2008 10:47 AM

Turn your iPod into anything!

Filed under: Tech

Travel Hacker has put up a fun page on all sorts of things you can do with an iPod, including my fun hack of using several Shuffles to build a RAID. A few of these ideas were new to me, so be sure to check it out.

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February 13, 2008 08:11 PM

getnameinfo fixed with 10.5.2

Filed under: Mac Postfix

I have been able to confirm that the getnameinfo issue with Mac OS X 10.5 has been fixed with the 10.5.2 update. I never did confirm if this was an issue with 10.5.2 Server or not, but the fix is in the server version also.

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January 28, 2008 08:55 PM

Nevermind...

Filed under: Movable Type

OK, I had read more into Movabletype's marketing hype than I should have, the templates used are basically the same as 4.01, but there are a new Enterprise and Community Solution options that apparently give some more template options for setting up sites other than plain blogs, so that is of no help to me.

There is, I found, a new plugin that allows for template exporting, but it requires a paid license, so it looks like that's out for me as well. I was able to get all my prior modifications back in place, so I'm back to getting the final template and CSS changes put in place to make the new template look like my old one.

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January 27, 2008 09:11 PM

Movabletype 4.1 available

Filed under: Movable Type

Well, just when I'm ready to get the final set of changes to my old templates into my test Movabletype 4.01 installation, I find that Movable Type 4.1 has been released, and included in this is a new set of templates and tools for managing them. So, I'm scrapping all the work I've done and moving my test setup to MT 4.1. I'm relatively confident that making changes to the bundled templates will be easier, and the learning I had already done should make this transition a fair bit easier.

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January 24, 2008 09:03 PM

Slowly getting MT4 template built

Filed under: Movable Type

It's slow going... The new template structure is nice, everything is broken up logically, but there is a lot of new CSS markup that I'm working around, and I'm not crazy about how they have their stylesheets done.

Also, the formatting of the HTML and MT code is terrible, all the formatting is done with spaces, no tabs. This was done, I'm sure, because the templates are edited via the web browser, and entering a tab in a text field is a bit hard to do, but it would have been so much nicer if after saving the spaces had been converted to tabs to make things more readable and ensure that everything lines up, which the built in templates don't.

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January 16, 2008 09:18 PM

Playing with MT4

Filed under: Movable Type

I've started playing with Movabletype 4.01, quite a bit changed from 3.x, and of primary importance to me is the new template structure. Since I'll need to play with this a bit before going live, I've set up a secondary installation of MT4 alongside my MT3 installation.

Basically, I used the new install instructions, but renamed the mtstatic folder to mtstatic2, and instead of a MT folder in my CGI-Bin, I created a folder called MT2 and placed all the necessary bits there. A quick setup of the new DB structure and config, and it was quickly up and running. Now to hammer out the templates...

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