Archive for 'mac'
Access denied, yet again
In an attempt to update Drupal to it’s latest version (6.5) I decided to test it on my local setup. Lo and behold, I got an ‘Access denied’. After testing out several possible causes, I googled around.
The answer: a few days ago I setup an SMB share on my home folder, with access for only [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2008 under drupal, en, mac.
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Drupal Clean URLs on OS X Leopard
As said before, I did a Drupal installation according to the IBM tutorial and created my own ‘drupal.development’ virtual host. During the installation of Drupal I noticed I couldn’t get Clean URLs. Now that I’m working on integrating Gallery2, I really needed them. So I had to look into the problem.
Posted: July 21st, 2008 under drupal, en, mac.
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Safari vhost quirks and ‘access denied on /’
As I started on Drupal I came across an IBM tutorial that explained how to setup a Drupal developement environment with Eclipse. What they did was setup a virtual host in Apache by the name of ‘drupal.development’. That worked fine in Firefox and I was happily configuring Drupal when I decided to use Safari to [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2008 under drupal, en, mac.
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Poor man’s laptop stand
The weather gods must have realized that it’s already summer and they had nothing to show for yet other than heavy rains. Well, over the past weekend and today they made up for it and the temperature here rose to the higher twenties (Celsius that is). A good day for working at home, I thought. [...]
Posted: July 16th, 2007 under en, mac.
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Bluetooth, Applescript and a phone
Tinkering wasn’t over yet after the previous post when I came across another one: Bluetooth proximity detection on OS X. Reading the comments I found the sources and utilities discussed ready for use at meckim@c.com. And once again, comments are almost as useful as the article: there was a comment which has an alternative approach [...]
Posted: June 7th, 2007 under en, mac.
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Bluetooth, Applescript and a Palm
I love to tinker with my gadgets and every now and then I dive into Applescript to write some nifty script that automates whatever I think I cannot do manually anymore. Today is such a day.
Posted: June 7th, 2007 under en, mac.
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Thunderbird upgrade, downgrade
After reading about the Thunderbird 2.0 release today I decided to upgrade. I like tagging messages and felt the need for more than just 5.
Posted: April 19th, 2007 under en, mac.
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Adobe’s Help Center
Today I wanted to do some work with Indesign and ran into a problem that existed for some time: selecting “help” starts up the Adobe Help Center (AHC) but no window is visible. I couldn’t tell if the window was invisible, hidden or just plain not there, but I couldn’t use it.
Posted: December 29th, 2006 under en, mac.
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