http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog Food for Monkeys Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:54:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is probably the most obscure post ever - but I need to put it up here, in case it helps someone, somewhere at some point. I recently had a consulting job, where the client wanted a little help with a software installation of some 'enterprise' software at their office. ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2008/08/01/installing-livetime-on-mac-os-x-server/ I am currently using BeThere as my ISP. They are pretty good, you can get upto 24Meg DSL and there's no port blocking, throttling or any of that non-sense, and they're a reasonable price. Alas I only get just under 2 meg down (in central London!) and just ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2008/08/01/using-the-3com-officeconnect-wireless-11g-firewall-router-with-the-bethere-isp/ I don't know whether you, dear reader, ever enjoyed learning about Chemistry; I did, but not enough to take it to A-Level, Physics and Biology were more my thing. Science isn't for everyone, I've always enjoyed it - but for every geek like me who couldn't get a handle ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2008/07/19/back-to-school-chemistry-edition/ I've decided to cave-in and buy a new iPhone, I'm really looking forward to being able to code for it and the UI, but it's the day after the announcement of the device and with a bit of sober thought, I've come to the conclusion that it will be a ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2008/06/10/im-going-to-downgrade-my-phone/ I hit this *so* many times and it always drives me mad. Here's the thing: email addresses are not case-sensistive. i.e. FOO@.BAR.COM is the same as foo@bar.com and FoO@bAr.CoM Web designers always seem to forget this though - and it's incredibly irritating, especially if you have a browser ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2008/04/04/web-design-pet-peeves-3523910295/ "The backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 4.2GB, but only 22.9GB are available." Just posting this bug so I can reference it in a bug report. It may be my fault though, because I'm using an unsupported volume: a drive on a remote machine ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2008/03/08/time-machine-is-a-little-confused-about-maths-and-iphone-sdk-ramblings/ Time for one of my annual blog posts. I recently bought a GlobalSat DG-100 GPS datalogger, which is a device that records your GPS position over time, so that you can later review those data, and do all sorts of fun things. I specifically wanted it for ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2008/03/07/communications-specifications-for-the-globalsat-dg-100-gps-datalogger/ Please don't be an April Fool's joke [edit] - It's true!, hooray! This is a very good thing, and hopefully more labels will open-up their catalogues. Apparently un-DRM'ed albums will not have any price increase, but single tracks will. http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2007/04/02/please-dont-be-an-april-fools-joke/ Here's another AppleScript: This one puts an xHTML template on the clipboard: Again, remove the Growl parts if you don't use Growl. set XHTMLTemplate to "< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> **REPLACE ME!** " set the clipboard to the XHTMLTemplate tell application "GrowlHelperApp" -- notify title "AppleScript Notification" description ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2007/04/01/put-xhtml-template-on-clipboard-applescript/ I never remember to post these scripts which I write and often use onto the web, so that Google can index them. So in an attempt to solve that, here we go: Here's an AppleScript that I use often via QuickSilver. It calls Growl so - if you don't ... http://www.monkeyfood.com/blog/2007/04/01/put-current-ip-address-on-clipboard-applescript/