There’s something very wrong with the rendering of this application in Safari 1.3. Safari 2.0 looks fine . The HTML and .css are darn close to validating. I’ll clean them up but I don’t expect that’s what’s causing the problem. That 2.0 renders correctly suggests a Safari bug was fixed. Unfortunately you have to...
Read more →We all know root logins are a bad idea, but sometimes it’s tricky to do things like backups without using a root login. Through a combination of ssh keys and sudo it’s possible to setup a secure backup that doesn’t use a root login. I’ll describe a setup that uses the machine to be...
Read more →FeedLounge, a popular web-based news feed reading service describes what they accomplished when they bumped up against some limits of MySQL and about their switch to PostgreSQL. There is some interesting and refreshingly civil discussion in the comments.
Read more →Ted Roche notes, over at Ted’s Radio Weblog, if you lose your copy of music you purchase from the iTunes Music Store, you have to buy it again. “Otherwise, if your hard disk becomes damaged or you lose any of the music you’ve purchased, you’ll have to buy any purchased music again to rebuild...
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