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Avoid Edge Cases: Most Important Article of the Year

Noël — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:15:38 +0000

If you are a web designer, or anyone that works on websites, the most important article you can read this year (and maybe even next) is “Avoid Edge Cases by Designing Up Front” by Ben Henick Related posts:biodiesel How much RAM? … Continue reading → Related posts:

How To Install OpenSolaris on Parallels

Noël — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:52:10 +0000

Reboot the VM, and at the grub menu, hit ‘e’ and ‘e’ again to edit the kernel boot parameters. Change the line from kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -B install_media=cdrom to: kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -B install_media=cdrom,atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0 From spod.cx Related posts:Install MySQL on … Continue reading → Related posts:

How to rotate virtual host logs with logadm on Solaris

Noël — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:11:35 +0000

logadm -w apache2 '/home/noel/domains/*/logs/{access,error}_log' -C 30 -a '/opt/csw/apache2/sbin/apachectl graceful' -p 1w -t '$dirname/$basename-%d.%m.%Y.log' Related posts:Getting Authdaemond To Work With Postfix On Solaris 10 Buffalo WHR-G54s and DD-WRT Related posts:

Getting Authdaemond To Work With Postfix On Solaris 10

Noël — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:22:23 +0000

If you get cannot connect to Courier authdaemond in /var/log/syslog just do the following:

sudo chmod +x /opt/csw/var/spool/authdaemon

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Aligning Objects in Illustrator

Noël — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:21:36 +0000

I work in Illustrator a lot when making logos (vector scaling rules!) and making business cards (again, vector scaling rules!). But I was always flustered when having to set guides for centering objects.

I figured out that you don’t have to! Just go up to your “Window” menu and select “Align”. Then on your “Align” flyout, check “Align to Artboard” and align as you please!

Install MySQL on Mac OS X Tiger, the Easy Way

Noël — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:40:52 +0000

Download MySQL for Mac OS X. You want the “Standard” distribution.
Install the both the MySQL binary package and the Startup Item (which you can disable later) as well as the Preference Pane.
Open the MySQL System Preference Pane; Click start.
Set your root MySQL password, by opening the Terminal.app and typing the following /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password yourpasswordhere. This part is extremely important. Don’t screw it up!
Download CocoaMySQL. Make sure to get the beta if you have an Intel Mac.
Create your databases and have fun!

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geothermal is here

Noël — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:04:52 +0000

Gladwell posted an interesting story on how his father threw out his furnace in favor of geothermal heating (and cooling).

It’s really interesting to know, that we have, below our very own feet, the power to heat and cool our homes for next to nothing. Yet, we still persist to fight wars and spend money on foreign oil. It’s maddening.

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no-www

Noël — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:20:25 +0000

Get rid of the WWW on your .COM.

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