Here’s the scenario: I’m trying to get data together from several old hard drives that are laying around. Some of them are dual boot Linux ext2 and a variety of Win’s all the way back to 2000. Then I have a fairly large drive that is pure ext2. I don’t want to haul the weight . . . → Read More: How to access ext2 FS from WinXP and Leopard
 7 comments - (Comments are closed)  Hacking and Security  compatibility, consolidating, ext2, filesystems, firewire, freeware, hard drive, housing, incompatible, Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, mount, read/write, sourceforge, USB, Win XP, Windows XP I have fired off the new Zend Framework tool several times now to automatically create a scaffolding for a new project. It’s pretty handy, though for a lot less work they could have just included a premade scaffolding in the download. The Zend Tool is fairly new and evolving, and will only get stronger . . . → Read More: Zend Tool bug and work around 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security bug, forums, issue, issue tracker, scaffolding, unit tests, Zend Framework, Zend Tool This blog is a thinking person’s blog. Yeah, I know, that really limits the readership, but so be it. Akismet is very good at getting the obvious spam comments. It’s even started flagging comments where the robot just picks a tag out of the blog’s tags and autocomments a slightly more targeted statement generally related . . . → Read More: Inane comments are history In a previous post I blathered about defacing toonlet® graphics. That activity was for the purpose of refining the best toons into a cohesive book. The first edition (40pp) is now available for download! Here are samples. The ebook has about 60 strips. It’s a free download for the time being. If you like the . . . → Read More: Laugh Poop and Die: A Toonlet Comic that Won’t Give you Diabetes 54 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, My Book book, comix, cure GERD, deface, diabetes, dollar, donate, ebook, ebooks, hidden link, humor, humour, make a million dollars, Paypal, please, scavenger hunt, six-pack abs, stud muffin, toonlet, twitter, unemployed artist, web comix, web toons I’ve been known to feature a toonlet® web comic in my blog from time to time. “What is a toonlet®?” you ask. toonlet.com® is the brainchild of Craig Schwartz and Seth Ladygo. It is essentially a Mr. Potato head inspired web toon toolkit that also adds 21st century features like resizing, rotation and repositioning. . . . → Read More: Thinking outside the frame with toonlet® 10 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff animation, artwork, bucket-fill, colorize, GIF, GIMP, graphics, paint, toonlet How many job descriptions have you seen that says “Ability to multitask a must?” Personally I have always thought that “multi-tasking” was bullshit. Oh, sure, you could have several projects open at once but if you flit tirelessly from one to another, you are engaging in what we used to call “thrashing” way back . . . → Read More: Multi-tasking is bullshit 16 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, Geek Stuff bullshit, job description, job interview, multitasking, thrashing Ticket Mastery by taterprint Any black humor about the business of ticket reselling resonates with me. I found this one today (this is not one of mine but I wish it was!) and it’s so true. There are so many sleazy backroom deals and stuff that goes on related to ticket sales that . . . → Read More: Ticket Mastery 11 comments - (Comments are closed) Uncategorized dishonesty, just don't go, just say no, scalpers, scalping, sleaze, sold out, taterprint, ticket sales, toonlet Ouch! I just solved a puzzling error in Zend Framework. It was telling me that I had an illegal file name. While the trace never did point to the exact line in my code that triggered it, it clearly had something to do with a PDO_SQL database. I checked the database file and . . . → Read More: OW! Zend Framework bit me OR Careful with that config One comment - (Comments are closed) Zend Framework apostrophes, application.ini, config file, database file, illegal file name, PDO_SQL, permissions, single quotes, Zend Framework Weblebrity by tixrus Updated this old toonlet now that we can size them! Wheeee! 15 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, Geek Stuff chicken and egg problem, ebook, fame, fortune, riches, social networking, weblebrity What is OAuth, and why should you care? Here’s the deal: Just like Skynet of Terminator fame, web apps have lately been doing a lot more talking to each other on the “back-end” instead of all web communication being between a human and a web app. This is a GOOD thing as long as the . . . → Read More: OAuth: Totally! 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security authentication, authorization, Bar Camp Portland, credentials, hack, hackers, handshake, humans, json, Legacy, Oauth, password, PHP5, security, serious hackers, skynet, third party, third party application, token, twitter, web application |