Year: 2008

After a long hiatus I have decided to do some serious study about computers again.
To be more precise, a programming language.

Whilst I love Python because the source code looks so good due to its use of white space as a language construct. But I will be going for that other P language PERL PHP

Why?

It is one of the most popular programming languages on the net and is the engine behind popular blogging software like WordPress.
This site is in fact run on WordPress. So a greater knowledge of WordPress will help the site have more functionality, unfortunately it won’t improve my writing.

A good reference for setting up PHP on Mac OS X is http://www.mimoymima.com/resources/071016_apache-osx.php

Do you want access to thousands of Linux/Unix programs on the Mac? Know what APT-GET is?
Basically MacPorts is APT-GET for the Mac.

After downloading the installer for Leopard – MacPorts-1.6.0-10.5-Leopard.dmg

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Adium Connection problem on OS X 10.5 Leopard

sudo su (enter your pass)cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak echo 207.46.96.153 messenger.htmail.com >> /etc/hosts echo 65.54.179.216 nexus.passport.com >> /etc/hosts echo 65.54.179.203 login.live.com >> /etc/hosts

Remember the old Cat Steven’s song? … well, this is the photo to go with the son.

I am the one with glasses, Paul benbow is at the front and Stuart Moody is to my right.

Yes, I rode (OK. … walked a little ..) to the top of the mountain. But the view was worth it, not to mention the downhill.

I have used Apple products on and off since the early eighties.
With Apple’s move to the Intel architecture it is now easy to run Windows on Mac’s

Up until recently I have been using Parallels, which was the first virtualization product for OS X.
VMWare the long time heavy weight in the sector took a while to get into the market.

Yesterday I tried their product Vmware Fusion. The Result?

bye bye Parallels

Hello VMware –

I have found it to run faster and to freeze up less the the Parallels virtual PC.

Why? – don’t know, don’t care … it just works.

Microsoft has extended the sales and support periods for XP, which will now be supported all the way out to 2014 — fully thirteen years after initial release. [From The B-List: Legacy.]