My first php ‘hack’: here’s Neil Stephenson’s classic In the Kingdom of Mao Bell, from (the old) Wired. Linked from this post, but not in the Pages sidebar. Note the amusing URL… from now on, there will be lots of hidden pages…
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I read both, almost every day, and it’s hard to imagine two more disparate media types. Yet, today, the two reference each other. WSJ lists Boing Boing in a blog et al. ‘who’s who‘, and Boing Boing links back. Wondering where Bart Nagel took this pic of the Boing Boing bloggers… new media moguls tend to be geographically dispersed…
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Think we’ve mastered the post tools, including the neat photo linking options, after a week of being ‘live.’ Trying to figure out if we can use the page feature to create pages that don’t show up in the sidebar (hmmm, may be a php hack for that). We have the backup plugin working, apparently successfully, but we still can’t get the RSS feed redirects working as documented. I’ve aslo started using Summary again to parse the server logs, the better to keep an eye on things like My Space photo hijackers. Still going nuts trying to figure out the redirecty behaviors…
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The local oak woodland, seen above in Portola Valley, has taken on its high summer look, helped a bit by an interesting sky. Photo taken witha Leica Digilux II set to B&W mode.
Los Trancos road and surrounding hills, Portola Valley. Leica Digilux II set to B&W mode. Been awhile since we posted any pix…
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Colleague Joel Ingulsrud is quoted at length in eWeek on the topic of portable home directories on Mac OS X. Basically, all of a users’ files and apps are on a server, and the user can log in from any machine and their email, book marks and files are just there. You can even do this with a laptop that goes off line – the server re-syncs with the laptop the next time it connects.
From the article, it sounds like Joel got PHD to work on his home LAN. I tried it on gulker.com’s LAN with Mac OS X server 10.4 and found it very buggy, not to mention very difficult to configure. Indeed, I decided to switch to inexpensive networked hard drives and tools like FireFox’s Google browser sync and .Mac to get a less richly-featured system, but one that is more robust and much easier to maintain. Whatever happened to AppleShare, the server for the rest of us….?
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