The DVD check completed at 9:20am. There is a skip button if you don’t want to wait (or if you know the DVD is good). The installation is commencing. Writing files, 12% completed. Time Remaining: About 11 minutes. It is now 9:22am.
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Checking your Installation DVD
Oh goody, it’s checking the DVD for problems. Which, yes is a good thing. It would be horrible to have a scratch cause problems at 95% completed, ending up with a non-bootable system. Tiger ships only on DVD. If you need CDs, you have to pay an extra $10, mail your DVD back to Apple, […]
Installation started at 8:50am
I double clicked the install icon, gave my system password, and Ivan (my iMac G5) restarted. Fairly simple and standard stuff so far. Choose the language, agree to the license agreement, choose type of install (Erase the hard drive! oh my!). Then I chose “Custom Install.” First choice: don’t install printer drivers for printers you […]
The First Step: Backup! Backup! Backup!
I want to start out with a pristine system, so I need to backup ALL of my data, applications, settings, etc… I ended up burning five DVDs (around 22GB of stuff). I looked through the materials on the iMac G5’s discs, and I didn’t see the extra applications (Quicken, WorldBook, Appleworks) so I backed those […]
Goodbye, Panther, I hardly Knew Ya
I’ve been running Panther since just after 10.3.1 came out. It’s been rock solid, a joy to work with, and it’s now been surpassed by OS X Tiger, 10.4. Tiger has a high standard to meet. We’ll see.
Content Negotiation
I’ve been using Apache 1.3x for my web sites. Recently I upgraded one server to have Apache 2.0x. I had been using the “Options +Multiviews” feature to allow me to link to web pages without a file extension. For example, I link to /directoryname/something instead of /directoryname/something.html. This gives me flexibility if in the future […]
Wget and URLs with Ampersands
I just spent more time than I should have trying to figure out why wget was not retrieving web pages correctly. I’ve been using wget for ages with no problems. It turns out the ampersand & in the URL was behaving badly. The solution is obvious, once I found it buried deep in a discussion […]
Blocking ads in Firefox or Mozilla
I surprised myself, but Firefox is slowly getting my attention over Apple’s Safari. The latest feature I love is a plug-in called AdBlock. It blocks advertising images and some of the pop-ups and pop-unders that Firefox can’t block yet. I used a list at http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ of what to block. So far, it is working quite […]
X-Eudora-Settings
You can customize tons of Eudora settings by using s. They are mostly defined at X-Eudora-Settings.txt. All you do is copy the tag to a new message in Eudora. It will become a link, double click it, and then change the options. A very useful one is: . It allows you to change the text […]
I thought I understood web images
Just when I thought I understood how images work on the web; the differences between GIF, JPG and PNG; and when to use each type of image; along comes a new technology: color correction. The ICC (International Color Consortium) has a standard that allows for information about how an image should render by an application. […]