September 2008
Geek Approved Hardware
Submitted by schettino on September 17, 2008 - 10:25pmI use a lot of stuff. This is what works. Simple as that. Links are to Amazon...
Too much of a good thing?
Submitted by schettino on September 17, 2008 - 2:35pmI've just now reached web 2.0/social networking overload. Everything is now linked to everything else, in an infinite loop.
Added tags (and directory) to drupal
Submitted by schettino on September 13, 2008 - 7:57amNothing earth shattering... just pointing out the new directory link on the left.
Downloading video feeds
Submitted by schettino on September 13, 2008 - 2:56amI was using miro to download video feeds on an XP box. Realized there was miro for ubuntu. Then realized I was just using miro as an rss feed downloader. Realized that was silly.
Drupal 6.4 date rendering... ignores timezones.
Submitted by schettino on September 10, 2008 - 10:11pmMaybe it's me. Maybe I've done something wrong in the install of Drupal. It just never seems to honor the timezone setting when rendering dates. I posted this over at the drupal site, but if you happen to have the same problem, this is the hack I did to fix it at my site. Edit... nope. Something is still fishy. Maybe its just a problem with ScribeFire? Who knows.
Drupal death spiral
Submitted by schettino on September 10, 2008 - 6:50pmI don't believe I have that complex of a drupal install. Today, I got into a twisty maze of updates that left my site dead in the water.
Freebie Online Disk Storage, Ubuntu/Linux... aDrive.com
Submitted by schettino on September 10, 2008 - 4:25pmI just took a quick spin, so your mileage may vary, but trying out xdrive (AOL, 5GB), skydrive (Microsoft, 5GB) and adrive (? 50GB) freebie offerings under linux (Ubuntu/Firefox 3.01) and the winner is...