Google knows all. Well, not quite but it is great for getting information that can be mechanically searched for. Today I needed to spell the word facetious. I first tried OS X Leopard’s built in dictionary, but my first guess was too far off. So I tried a few approximations in a google search and it found the spelling and definition. Cool. And useful.
The Unavoidable Malware Myth: Why Apple Won’t Inherit Microsoft’s Malware Crown — RoughlyDrafted Magazine via kwout
Interesting article explaining that malware such as viruses, adware, spam bots, etc are a major problem on Windows and not on Apple Macs. The reason is the poor quality of Windows.
Gary and I went to the Prescott Web Design Meetup group last night. I have been trying to make this meeting for some time. It starts at 7:30 pm, making it close to the bedtime of one who gets up at 4:30 am on work days. This week Gary and I were on vacation.
It was an interesting time. There were 3 people there besides us. They are practicing web developers here in Prescott, Az. I work for a government agency and have an interest in web applications. Here’s the URL’s of those attending (other then me) in no particular order:
Teen who killed dad angry he couldn’t use Internet via kwout
I’ve heard of internet addiction, if that’s the story here this kid had it really bad. Or perhaps it was just a teenager vs. parent argument over behavior gone bad.
After many failed attempts, I have found out how to get web sharing with apache to work on my mac with leopard os x 10.5.2
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6184905
Update 2: I’ve been using web sharing on my MBP and encountered an annoyance. In Sharing under System Prefrences, it shows http://192.168.1.3/~dagny/ as the URL of my home page. This is fine until my rounter assigns my mac a new IP address, a normal occurance. If I bookmarked the URL I will get an http error. The fix is to change the IP address (192.168.1.3 in this case) to localhost. So the URL becomes http://localhost/~dagny/ localhost is the IP shorthand for “this machine” and is the loopback ip address (127.0.0.1) NOTE: This is only good when I access the page from my computer - which I do a lot when working on web sites locally.
Update: This post gets read a lot. To summarize the linked article, there was a problem in the installer, it did not copy a file that Apache needs. The details are in the article. I found that I had to change to the root user (in terminal, su root) to copy the files.
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