Lyle Schofield’s Technical Journal
On line log of technical adventures
Today’s sync dumped the new v3 operating system into the phone. Lots of improvements, including cut & paste, and the greatly anticipated text search through Email. But, I’ve been extremely happy with the phone since I got it so I wasn’t really waiting for a lot of new features. Sideways Email viewing will be nice […]
Speaking of talking to a friend, I’m sitting here working on my computer and Skype woke up with my first phone call. And worked remarkably well! I was using my corporate issue, utterly devoid of style (see 6th paragraph), Dell Cinderblock 9000 laptop, which apparently has a built in microphone. While compensating for the tinniness […]
Was able to get phpMyAdmin working with little trouble. The configuration file is pretty easy to go through, and the documentation is very good. Most of the time is spent with Apache config making sure the HTML source is only accessible on the local host. Not much of an issue since the machine isn’t accessible […]
Well, how exciting is this! Apparently, Microsoft is forming the MIIS Alliance (more). It’s nice to see some interest from a major IT player in older 16-bit interpreted programming languages. Maybe we should fire up the ol’ MV10000?
First, helps to set the wp-content “themes” directory to allow writing. Duh. Not too bad. I’m starting from a template from Mike Little that is clean with both sides having a column. I think by the time I’m done its doing to have little in common with the original outside of the CSS layout information.
Did an install of Grey Matter tonight on the home server. Install was incredibly easy, documentation was incredibly well written, and there were zero issues during the installation. Only requires Perl to run (it exists as a bunch of CGI files), no database needed. A great set of features for how easy it is, but […]