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February 17, 2005
The Importance of Being
The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway... I've started to make a tape... in my head... for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done.- Rob, High Fidelity 2000.
With that in mind go check out Tiny Mix Tapes, one of the most fun websites seen in awhile. I've spent entirely too many hours at this site already.
Posted by Dan at 09:14 PM
Frighteningly Cool Technology
I wanted to make a note of this before I forget about it later. A company known as GeoSim Systems has made a most amazing replica of the city of Philadelphia. It's extrodinairly detailed and almost exactly accurate. A few things I noticed in it are incorrect.
First the streets are NEVER that empty, even at 2 and 3 am. It's kind of disturbing to see that.
Second the view down the parkway, from the images I've seen, old Billy boy doesn't look like he's pissing on the city. It's an essential view of Billy.
Third the Sam Eric theater has NEVER looke that nice. I can't even remember if/when it ever had posters on the marquee. Although I guess one can dream can't they?
I'm still waiting for the other movie to download.
Posted by Dan at 01:56 PM
Subverted Usability
At work a group of us have setup a Subversion server for use, a first run trial server for the company really. It runs off a Windows 2003 server using Apache 2 and has been fairly stable for us, al biet the development teams are rather small. It hosts two repositories, one for me and my team (of one) and the other for a team of about 8 people. It's worked out really well for us so far.
Recently I've been asked to provide restricted access to my repository, mainly to allow someone read and write privs to a specific branch but not to anywhere else. I know how you can do this in CVS, and I figured, well it can't be that different in subversion. Enter the challenge of subversion.
Having read and re-read the Subversion book chapter on providing access control, which seems simple enough. The challenge actually isn't setting up Subversion on UNIX, but rather for the bits to work correctly on Windows. There is an awful lot of quirky behavior that needs to be solved yet. Add in the challenge of using Windows domains, and you've given yourself a double headache to deal with.
For example, in the Apache access log, the user name is sent in as DOMAIN\\USERNAME but the error log shows it as DOMAIN\USERNAME.
Four hours after starting, I was able to successfully block everyone from accessing the server, each being told that PROPFIND could not authenticate. Then the error log is telling me that the requested path is not a URI. Having worked hard to correct that I finally was able to get past the authentication issues using an entry for EVERY type of Windows login combination possible (see example issue above). Next problem introduced was the Subversion system could not read the repository for some unknown reason.
My question is, has anyone ever actually gotten this to work?
Posted by Dan at 01:03 AM
February 09, 2005
Fun Stuff via Links!
Got busy tonight playing around with some video files that were not correctly playing on my PowerBook. Seeing as they were AVI's I was hoping to find something similar to GSpot on Windows (yes, it's safe for work). While I didn't find that, I did find a couple other really cool tools.
CSSEdit - makes editting CSS files almost... tolerable again. Wow.
Not really software, but some damn cool high resolution photos of snow flakes.
Posted by Dan at 12:53 AM | Comments (0)
February 07, 2005
Question to you
"You're really lovely, Underneath it all.
D'You really love me, Underneath it all"
Posted by Dan at 12:02 AM | Comments (0)
February 06, 2005
Where do they come from?
Spammers. I hate them, and they've become a scourge on the internet world. I've decided to disable trackbacks entirely as the incoming attempts at spam are awful. The fact that I've not really bought into the trackback concept before certainly didn't help to dissuade me from this.
Too bad I haven't gotten MT-Blacklist working yet. It just doesn't want to be enabled for the site (some silly error keeps popping up).
Posted by Dan at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)
February 01, 2005
February
A quick "Happy Birthday" to all the people in my life with February birthdays, and yes there are lots. Yep, even you.
Oh Jamie, once again congratulations on the birth of Mary Ayako. Now I hope you're able to get some sleep sometime in the near future ;)
Posted by Dan at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)