Verizon seems to making some overtones about charging companies to be able to reach Verizon’s DSL customers. Full article: Verizon Says Google, Microsoft Should Pay For Internet Apps. The article gives conflicting information from Verizon. I’ve signed up for Verizon’s mailing list to get copies of their executive’s speeches.
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
WordPress 2 Released
A new version of the WordPress Blog System has been released. I’m updating my other WordPress based web sites, and am seriously considering switching to it for PlanetMike, away from the Blosxom system.
Apple iTunes Music Store 1,500 podcasts limit
The podcast categories in iTunes only show the first 1500 podcasts. So my wife’s podcast no longer shows up in the Arts and Entertainment category. Do you think Apple underestimated the popularity of podcasting?
Merging apache web server logs
The super-duper really handy mergelog program compiles just fine under OS X 10.4.2, if you remember to add a “sudo” before the “make install” command.
Installing Software on a Headless Xserve G5
I needed to run the Dantz Retrospect Backlup client onto my new Apple XServe G5. The problem is that the G5 doesn’t have a monitor. You can install packages through the command line on the server. Simply ssh into the box, then run the installer command. If you want to log into the box with […]
Million Moving Pixels
I just paid for my first bit of advertising of PlanetMike.com. I bought 100 pixels at MillionMovingPixels.com. I have the top left corner of the page. Can you tell what the icon is? It is my cat Curious, rotating in place. That page is going to look incredibly busy when it has a few more […]
“Click Here”
A great article I wish I had written: Why “Click here” is bad linking practice.
Vonage Service Plans
I’m looking into getting a new phone number for use at home, so of course I’m looking at VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solutions. I’ve found three so far that seem viable. Skype, Gizmo Project, and Vonage. 1. Skype. I’ve had a Skype screen name for about a year, but during a system upgrade the […]
Open Source Goodness
I just had a perfect example of Open Source goodness. I needed to tweak how the date was displaying in a web application I downloaded and installed on a different web site I’m helping set up. A couple minutes grepping the source code and I found the command to display the date. Three keystrokes later, […]
Key Consistency between Web Browsers?
I am a webmaster. I create (occasionally) and maintain (frequently) web sites for a living and for a hobby. So I have and use lots of different web browsers. After all, what webmaster hasn’t been hit by a browser rendering a page differently than other browsers? This means I have to sometimes look at the […]