October 2007
7 posts
XBox 360 Cooler
I have put all my a/v equipment into a new entertainment center. The usual problem is that no one designs an entertainment center that is actually designed to hold a/v equipment. They make the cabinet area big enough but they never include any kind of cooling. You cannot cram a/v equipment into a small wooden box and expect it to stay at a safe operating temperature. Previously I had case fans...
Bruji - A Mac's best friend
Another software recommendation. I picked up the DVDPedia and BookPedia products. I was able to catalog my entire DVD collection in a very short amount of time. One thing I wish these products had was a more open data store. Perhaps a MySQL backend so that you can easily incorporate your collection data into other programs. You can export but then you of course have to do the conversion from...
VMware Fusion
I’ve switched to VMWare Fusion from Parallels. If you are considering using virtual machines on the Mac then I highly recommend you start with Fusion instead of Parallels. I converted my Windows Vista virtual machine to Fusion using the free converter from VMWare. After manually uninstalling the various device drivers from Parallels I was able to boot up Vista and it seems to run faster. ...
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Apple Keyboard Update Weighing in at 35 meg
Can you believe this? A keyboard update is over 35 megabytes in size? I almost choked when I saw this. I always hear about Windows being bloated but this one takes the cake. I got a new keyboard for my macbook pro when it is at the office and hooked up to an external monitor. Decided to go with the new fancy apple keyboard but I needed the update. Apple Keyboard Update 1.2 This download is...
PHP malloc error
My latest issue with Drupal and PHP. Of course there could be an issue with my script but considering that it runs fine until I try to use the db_query function of Drupal I think there is probably a small memory leak in that routine somewhere. I’m processing about 700,000 users in the script. If I process them and write results to files everything works great. Once I start trying to use...
Names in CSS?
Recently I was given some XHTML/HTML from a “designer”. It was horrible. Nothing was properly named and there wasn’t even a single style sheet for the various mockup pages. This ultimately led to taking on the remaining design for ourselves. I’ve always looked for some sort of naming or convention in code and HTML has always been easy to do this as well. Why is it then...
Importing Large Numbers of Users | drupal.org
I’ve been really busy lately and my blog has once again suffered from neglect. Hopefully all the work I have been doing in Drupal will generate some blog material that others might find interesting. I’m putting together a new site and I’ve chosen Drupal. I’m going to try and document the process and choices I’ve made here to help others that might decide to use...