It’s like thanksgiving today. Happy turkey day, and make sure you eat your fill. :) I plan on it! I don’t have to Really cook today though. Not that I wouldn’t mind, we’re just going to Meesh’s brother’s place for the feast. Should be fun. I’m sure between me and her brother we’ll eat some serious grub. :)
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Update For EE 1.2 ( Bug Fix ) 20041123
For those of you who don’t get a chance to visit the forums or subscribe to the Bug Fixes RSS, there’s been an Bug Fix Update to EE 1.2 (build 20041123):
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Build ID: 20041123
Problems fixed:
- Fixed a Gallery problem in which some data was not being deleted if an entire gallery was deleted
- Fixed a problem with the blacklist feature that was allowing URLs formatted a certain way to get through.
- Fixed a FireFox problem that was making the watermark test fail.
- Fixed an error in one of the member profile queries.
- Fixed the field pagination feature. There was a problem caused by the new caching feature.
- Fixed a stats bug that was preventing the most recent trackback date from showing up in the list.
- Fixed a problem with the feature that allows a master comment expiration to be set.
Solution: This above issues have been corrected in the distribution.
Please download the current version of ExpressionEngine from the downloads page
and replace the following items in your installation:
/core/core.input.php
/core/core.system.php
/cp/cp.display.php
/cp/cp.publish_ad.php
/modules/comment/mod.comments.php
/modules/gallery/mcp.gallery.php
/modules/weblog/mod.weblog.php
/modules/trackback/mcp.trackback.php
/modules/stats/mcp.stats.php
Switch me, please.
Ok, so inspired by zannah, I simply had to get a KVM. I bought an Iogear as well, and so far I’m impressed. I like it! I was able to change the hotkeys Really easily to ctrl-ctrl, which is what I’m used to from using the KVM’s at my old work place. Pretty nice.
I ran into some issues actually when I was using it on my Windows PC and my logitech mouse. I’ve Really come to conclusion that my Mac is superior to my PC. When switching, if using the logitech cordless optical, I’d lose the mouse, but not the keyboard. I’m sure this has many reasons due to the fact that I’m using the USB 2way KVM. But frankly, I thought I’d have problems with the keyboard if nothing else. No matter. I am using my logitech USB keyboard, but now I have converted over to my Microsoft Optical Mouse, which is what I used to use on the Mac.
Figure’s, it does work kinda sorta. I seem to lose double click, even though the windows CP says that my mouse is set to double click on the scroll button. When switching, windows does see a new component being used on my USB port as well (which I will assume it’s the mouse, since it never happened with the logitech cordless).
It works, that’s all that matters and this is such a space saver. Now I don’t have to turn around or have 2 keyboards and mice on my desk. Now if I could only get around cleaning up my desk. I don’t think any company makes a desk cleaner upper…
Expression Engine 1.2 Released!
If you didn’t know already, Expression Engine 1.2 has been released! You can download via the download area of the Expression Engine Website. It’s got some great features, the biggest of all the Photo Gallery Module:
The ExpressionEngine Photo Gallery supports advanced features such as image watermarking, cropping, resizing, rotation, thumbnailing, user commenting, nested categories, batch importing, multiple galleries, and more. Photos can even be emailed to the gallery!
Remember to follow the Update instructions! This is NOT a bug fix, it’s an upgrade!
New skin, new times.
Ok, so I whipped up a new skin last night. It’s taking me less effort everytime I have to create a new skin. I love the “changing the look of the site with just CSS alone” look. :) Of course, this does not change the wording, nor does it change the content on each page. It just changes where they are on any given page. :) Gotta love it. If you want to see the new skin, look to the bottom of the screen and select the “souls polished…” skin. I hope you like it! :)
Do you have what it takes to become a star?
Ok, so I’m sure it’s old news (because I always find out last), but Food Network is accepting applications to be the Next Food Network Star. Now I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been watching enough TV cooking shows that I would just love to do it. Not to mention just being a finalist and being on Food Network land in NYC would be awesome. And have that chance of meeting those like Rachel Ray, Alton Brown, and Bobby Flay… Man that’s just too exciting. So I guess I have to steal back my videocamera and make my 3 minute presentation. What the hell can I make in 3 minutes? I don’t think Rachel Ray made her start with 3 minute meals. ;)
The minimalist template
Ok, I’ve take my pd-x site and converted it into a generic, minimalist template group called pd. If you wanna try it out, great! :) It’s very very very minimalistic, I can promise you this! :)
Template contest by pMachine
Well, I think I’ll be submitting a template for the contest. But only after I’ve “perfected” my templates so that I can skin via CSS changes only. Much like you see at CSS Zen Garden. I’ll just be submitting my “pdx” template, so I gotta clean it up and make all references to generic. :) Of course, we’ll see how it goes. The CSS will be the determining factor. :) BTW, if you didn’t already know, you can change the skin by the links at the bottom of this page.
Dino Rossi governer
Dino Rossi governer of Washington State. How do you take that?
Why I like Thunderbird
I’ve recently switched to using Thunderbird on the PC to check mail. I still use apple mail on my mac, I just separate certain mail accounts between the two. (because I have way too many email addresses!) But I’m liking thunderbird so far. So much so that I had to jump in rejoice as I found many of the features I can use.
Top ten reasons why I like Thunderbird so much:
- It has junkmail protection. I’ve noticed though that sometimes it doesn’t move the emails marked as junk to the junk folder like I told it to. But that’s minor to me.
- I can easily manage multiple email accounts. It’s a snap to manage each account, and I can keep different accounts in different inboxes without setting up rules (ala Outlook/Outlook Expresss)
- It does a good job of protecting versus malicious mail. I don’t have to worry about malicious images, or code that is made to “hack” your windows. Nice.
- The filters are robust. Filtering is an important part of my e-mail life. I must have robust filtering rules and thunderbird Really comes through.
- When I tell it that an email is junk it will auto move it to the Junk folder for me. This may seem small, but this is a feature I love that’s on apple mail.
- It actually flags mail as junk. So far the success rate of the junk mail filter has been about 99%. This is great!
- It has extensions. Extensions can make your life easier, especially things like the Dictionary extension that looks up a word for you. Nice.
- It has good IMAP support. Most email clients don’t support IMAP. Thunderbird does. And works very well too. I have a couple of IMAP accounts I check, and this has been easy to work with.
- It has RSS reader support. This was the clencher for me. I read a lot of websites via RSS reader, and now that I have a program that checks both RSS and mail, I can get rid of the dedicated RSS reader. Fortunately for feeddemon (what I used to use for RSS), Thunderbird while good, has some features it needs in RSS reading.
- It’s mozilla. ’nuff said.