Oh, how unfortunate: Zenoss, most likely not by malice but because they were not paying close enough attention to social netiquette, committed a big no-no: they decided that everyone whose email address they had on record was to be automatically added to their new jobs-related mailing list, no confirmation required. Of course, now people are — some pretty aggressively — [...]
I have no idea why but sometimes a .dmg file will just-not-mount. For instance I just downloaded the latest PostBox from http://postbox-inc.com/ and the silly little image will *not* cooperate. My amazingly quick’nt dirty workaround? Convert it to another format file (using the command-line)! ?View Code BASHhdiutil convert postbox-1.0b12-mac.dmg -format UDTO -o postbox_iso var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35237092727@N01\/256597423\/","http:\/\/postbox-inc.com\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://nexus.zteo.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var [...]
Close to two years ago, after quickly putting together my own FLV Player plugin for WordPress (original post) I added it to WordPress.org’s already impressive list of plugins. Who knows? Someone else might find it useful (it’s been downloaded more than 4,500 times since then so I guess that means someone did) Yesterday a few people commented on that original [...]
Aaron Oliver points out that knowing about the “Pick two” triangle is not as much the issue as what people do with that obvious bit of knowledge. The “triangle,” if you are wondering, is a regular triangle with three named corners: Good, Cheap, Fast. Quite often, when faced with unreasonable demands, project managers/team leaders will draw this triangle on a [...]
Sunday Hacking is going to be this new and irregular feature, where I blather about how I made my week-end a bit geekier by doing such or such hardware hack. I do not guarantee originality, nor much software-related content. If you’re not into that kind of thing, I promise that it shouldn’t feel much worse than a flu shot. [...]
