Back Online

Just a quick update on the status of the website.

Something has changed with my hosts configuration, they won’t tell me what and I can’t work out what. However it has meant that the website has been down for a day and a half. I have managed to get it back online by reverting from Mongrel to Apache served and running the website on CGI instead of FastCGI. For all the non-techies out there this means the website may respond more slowly than normal, although the caches should keep it moving for the most part and my h…

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21 Jan 2008 @ 22:40

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Mac, Hardware, Advice

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How To Ruin Your Filesystem

It’s been a while since I last posted, and, as my iMac is currently ‘busy’ I thought now would be as good a time as any for my first post of the new year. First of all I have to say, Happy New Year, a bit late I know but better late than never. Now I can get to the true purpose of this post.

This post is a cautionary tale about external hard drives and, what I see as an error in Mac OS, more specifically, Leopard. In my endeavor to keep as many Time Machine backups as possible I have recently retired my old Wester…

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24 Dec 2007 @ 11:37

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Downloads, Mac, Windows

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More Western Digital Icons

That’s right, I’m home for Christmas and I’ve added some new icons to the set. Just as I promised. The main additions to the set are icons for the WD My Book World line of drives, both vertical and horizontal as always. Unfortunately there are no Vista variants for now, because I don’t have Vista installed at the moment, but if anyone would like to donate copy of Parallels or Fusion to me, feel free.

There have been a few more requests for icons for the set, the obvious ones are the icons for the new style WD My B…

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15 Nov 2007 @ 13:08

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Mac, Tutorial

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Setting Hard Drive Icons In OS X

Another day and I’m finally getting around to writing another tutorial. This time I thought I concentrate on something I’ve had quite a lot of emails about, ‘you’ve given me the icons, how do I go about using them’. I suppose it’s quite an important thing, if your supplying people with something, to tell them how to use it. (Warning: this is a Mac only tutorial).

In previous version of Mac OS X, before Leopard you could get away with applying HD icons though copy and paste alone, and from that point on everything …

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14 Nov 2007 @ 07:57

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Website, Personal

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A Change Of Direction…

A little bit of coding. That’s right I’m re-writing parts of the website yet again, I just can’t seem to keep away from my text editor. The main changes that will be coming are more personalization of the website to give you a feel for who I am. I bet you don’t even know my name, unless that is, you know me in real life.

The first changes will be the introduction of an ‘About’ page. I have already introduced a ‘Blog Roll’ into the sidebar, I also intend to improve the photography page, introduce a ‘Tutorials’ page…

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