10.29.01
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I’ve finally made the upgrade. It took me a while to plan it out and get comfortable, but step-by-step I went through and got my machine prepared and organized, got everything in just the right place s that if I hit a critica problem, I could switch back at a moment’s notice.
It took the better part of both weekend mornings, but I finally got my Blue and White G3, up and running with its new operating sytem.
That’s right. I’ve gone all the way from MacOS 8.6 to MacOS 9.1 (nearly the final paragraph).
Oh yes, we’re talking cutting edge here. 🙂 I think most people would expect me to have MacOS X installed and running full time or the latest gadget and software and hardware, but that’s really not my style. I let things settle in and have other people work out the issues and I wait for the slings and arrows to die down. Then I’ll peek around at the new stuff and bring it up online on a machine that I actually need to use. Other machines, I could give a rip about. But my main Mac — that’s something I’m careful about.
And now I’m setup to get Mac OS X as soon as I feel that it’s good for me. I will certianly be waiting out 10.1 — my G3 has hardware-based DVD playback which 10.1 doesn’t support. It sounds like it will be coming however, and that’s when I think I’ll pounce.
Of course by then I may have an iBook, so it will be okay to hold off on upgrading the G3…
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10.27.01
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For those of you who are intrigued by non-base 10 or base 2 counting systems, we present an interesting look at Base 3, and the Trits.
http://americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci01/Compsci2001-11.html
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Meanwhile in Iran:
Iran Wins Women’s Airgun Crown
TEHRAN TIMES SPORTS DESK
TEHRAN Iranian women took the lead at the shooting event of Third Muslim Women’s Games that will be held in 15 sporting fields.
The Iranian shooting team stole the show and grabbed the top title of the airgun competitions on Friday.
In the airgun competitions that five teams comprising 20 markswomen participated, the Iranian team bagged 1,158 points and ranked first and the teams of Qatar and Iraq finished runner-up and third, winning 1,118 and 942 points respectively.
The five participating teams were Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Qatar and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
In the individual’s category, the shooters of Iran, Elham Hashemi with 483 points, Yalda Khoda-Bandeh with 483 points and Lida Fariman with 482 points ranked first to third respectively.
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10.25.01
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I’ve really got to show this to my class when we talk about colors and palettes for web design: http://www.paletteman.com/ It’s a pretty good tool for putting some colors together and sampling them.
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This was passed around the office this afternoon:
You can also check out my list of Halloween Costume ideas that I collected from around the Web.
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10.24.01
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Try again.
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I’ve put the code in a better place.
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Another Attempt
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This is another test of the mod.
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The Weblog aggregator at Weblogs.com changed it’s method of polling RSS files for updates in October, 2001. In order to quickly patch Greymatter to notify the Weblogs.com system, I took Aaron’s Bookmarklet for notification and tossed it into GreyMatter’s main script ‘gm.cgi’. The end result is that after I’ve added a new entry, I have a button I can use to notify Weblogs.com to come see my RSS file.
I’ve made a modification to the Greymatter main script. I’ve built a page that explains the procedure. It’s quite simple, simply a change to one line in the gm.cgi script.
Enjoy!
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I think I’ve figured out a was to make GreyMatter ping Weblogs.com to notify it of a new entry being added. Wish me luck.
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