Firefox 3 beta
Posted: 14:44 November 20, 2007
Software | Leave a Comment
I see that the firefox 3.0b1 beta is up for download … and I must admit I’m tempted to install it on a spare machine here.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Stay tuned for more …
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WhatTheF*** (font .. wash your mouth out with soap)
Posted: 19:01 October 9, 2007
Fonts | Leave a Comment
Well at least it got your attention … but no its not what you’re thinking …
I’m currently working on a transport website and have no idea what the Font they are using in their logo is …
To the rescue comes http://www.identifont.com/ … but unfortunately this time it didn’t come close. .. you enter a number of characters and it asks you questions based on that …
Its been a life saver for me in the past however move over identifont there’s a new tool in town …
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont
upload your graphic of the font you’re working with and it’ll come back with close matches
(yes I realise they’ve been around for a while)
Templating Movabletype problems…
Posted: 08:29 October 2, 2007
movabletype | Leave a Comment
so I’ve run into my first problem with movabletype …
An error occurred publishing date-based archive ‘Monthly20070801000000′: Publish error in template ‘Entry Listing’: Error in <mt:ArchivePrevious> tag: You used an MTarchiveprevious tag without a date context set up.
Its an annoying one I know when the problem is happening I just can’t seem to figure out a work around …
Spam … don’t you just love it…
Posted: 08:47 September 28, 2007
General | 1 Comment
At the moment I’m getting a serious amount of spam on my comments forms from 209.47.94.52 now this is listed as being a VerizonBusiness address … I’ve done a quick check online and yep .. looks like a lot of people have been complaining about this and still they’ve done nothing about it.
Personally I don’t have much experience with dealing with spam apart from adding captcha’s and tightening up security … I don’t really want to add a captcha to my comments forms so it looks like for the moment I’ll be adding a deny from to my .htaccess file … no idea but oh well
Deny from 209.47.94.52
the new wordpress was released yesterday …
Posted: 08:31 September 26, 2007
Web Development | Leave a Comment
as this site is currently running wordpress I was planning on upgrading to Wordpress 2.3
Michele over on his blog had an interesting article Wordpress Release Raises Privacy and Security Concerns. It makes me wonder what the hell they are playing at … but thankfully as you’ll see .. someone has made a … wp don’t phone home plugin already
Enemy Territory Demo
Posted: 21:14 September 23, 2007
Games | Leave a Comment
While browsing fileplanet last saturday I think it was I saw the demo for Enemy Territory Quake Wars was available … of course I downloaded it immediately … forgot about it till wednesday night .. installed it and I must say I’m blown away the AI when playing against the computer seems to be very good … graphically its very nice … my machine I guess is struggling a bit but … I’d definitely recommend it to anyone into their first person shooters.
The name might sound familar to some as well … you may remember from a few years ago a wolfenstein game was in development … its name was enemy territory … and it was a multiplayer only game and released for free due to some screw ups from the company developing the single player side of things.
Anyways I recommend you download the demo http://www.enemyterritory.com
Firefox 2.0.0.7 released…
Posted: 10:30 September 19, 2007
General | Leave a Comment
Its like its the year 2007 or something … next release in 2008 ?
A friend (stef) informed me this morning that
http://www.wow-europe.com/de/index.xml was broken … I checked it out .. no it was working fine … I see the update firefox popup … and … update …
hey presto on reload of the page I’m getting a
XML Parsing Error: unclosed token
Location: http://www.wow-europe.com/de/index.xml
Line Number 323, Column 9:
offline browsing of a website…
Posted: 23:15 September 18, 2007
Tools | Leave a Comment
I’ve recently done up a mockup of a website and well for content I made use of some simple php functions to create lists and so on so that my code for forms wasn’t completely bloated …
Now there were about 15 or so pages and I don’t think your standard save page will copy it all that nicely for you … maybe I’m wrong …
Anyways enter the HTTrack … and offline browser … I’ve used various versions over the year though it would be about 2 - 3 years since I’ve used it.
Problem solved … apart from the forms which still wanted to go to the php pages for submission and quick multipage search replace and I was up and running … zip it up with my favorite zip tool 7 Zip and bob’s your uncle … or er your Teddy bear … depending
Windows Skype users can be infected by a worm …
Posted: 01:47 September 12, 2007
Software | Leave a Comment
Yes I’m scare mongering 
…
It seems these days that skype just grows worse and worse for me … I don’t show up to other users .. they don’t show up to me … messages take an hour to send and a host of other problems …
Now it would appear that you can have your windows machine infected by a worm …
http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/09/the_worm_that_affects_skype_fo.html
I’d love to see the stats on the number of infected users
how can I have a file automatically download
Posted: 10:45 September 7, 2007
apache | Leave a Comment
ok the title is possibley a little bit misleading … the other day a question on boards was how can I have a file automagically popup the save as dialogue when you click on it … other peoples responses were to add in some text saying right click on the file and choose save as … ridiculous but even I’ve done it in the past … distant past
My first solution was to write a php script and have that alter the headers of the file … the code is pretty simple
<?php
header(’Content-type: text/plain’);
header(’Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=”myfile.txt”‘);
readfile(’myfile.txt’);
?>
They weren’ too thrilled with that option and were wondering if there’s some way to do it with apache … to be honest I hadn’t a clue and I ended up doing a bit of research …
It would seem that adding in the following code
<filesmatch “\.(?i:txt)$”>
ForceType plain/txt
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</filesmatch?>
will nicely alter the headers of the file without you having to go off writing and scripts … If you’ve any experience with regexp then you’ll see what the filesmatch piece is doing “\.(?i:txt)$” matching a . case insensitive txt match at the end ofthe filename
now you’ve two options you can include this code in your httpd.conf file or you could add it into you .htaccess file in the directory of choice. I think I’d prefer to add it to the directory as you’ve got greater control in future and don’t have to go mucking about with your main apache config file.
Please note that your apache server will have to have the headers_module up and running for this to work
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