Started down the path to hard drive upgrade last night.
A little talk about DRM, or the lack thereof.
And some other things. Teach me to try to do show notes from memory.
Oh yea, plus album art…FINALLY!
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I’m a big fan of the movie trailers that are redone to make the original movie in the trailer something completely different. Did you ever see the one that made the shining look like a romantic comedy? Oh man, it was awesome!
This one, not quiet so happy go lucky. Oh yea, NSFW either (there are a few F and S bombs).
The song at the end is from Brad Sucks - Dirtbag. It’s track #10 off of the album you should already have (and should have already kicked in a few bucks for too, I did!).
Even though I kept calling it #6…
A little talk about backup, upcoming upgrades for the macbook and school prep for the lad.
The new drive hasn’t been installed yet, but everything is backed up and I’m ready to do it. It’s a Fujitsu 120GB 5400 RPM drive. It was cheap (less than $100) which is why I went 5400 instead of 7200RPM (those drives are expensive).
Watch tomorrow for possible album art.
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me:a new dave brubeck album jSchwa:whoa word? me [sends link] j:didn’t know brubeck was still kickin’ around mepretty chill from what I can tell me:wiki says he is 87 jSchwa:damn me:somehow, I feel less significant jSchwa: hehe jSchwa:dude we’re in the space age jSchwa:i’ll be kicking it til i’m a 150 jSchwa: hehe me:yea me:but he made an album me:at 87 jSchwa: oh word me:I barely made it to the gym today jSchwa: lol me:and need a nap after going to costco me:he made 16 f’ing songs and got someone to put ‘em on a cd me:dave brubeck is teh awesome jSchwa:rofl jSchwa: i’ve got a guitar, garage band, and some blank cds jSchwa: guess i better get started jSchwa: hehe
Look at me go with the Roman Numerals. I certainly hope just checked and google can translate when I get to a number I don’t know. Anyway, we shall subtitle this the ‘Geek Edition’.
As I have talked about before, one of the reasons for switching to the Mac is OSX’s unix-y goodness underneath all the pretty icons. I wanted to be able to take advantage of that by setting up an offline development environment, primarily for Wordpress.
I’ve done this in Ubuntu previously and it was easy. Actually, in Ubuntu it works pretty well as an Intranet server as well. But more on that another time.
As I’m sure it wouldn’t be too difficult to install Apache, PHP and mySQL on the Mac, I knew there had to be an easier way. As usual, jSchwa to the rescue with a link to MAMP. AMP is short for Apache/mySQL/PHP, adding a letter in front of it usually designates the server type. M for Mac, L for Linux and W for Windows. While I’m sure there is one for Windows, I would probably want a dedicated box for it since I would imagine IIS and Apache probably don’t play nice together.
So I downloaded MAMP about 2 months ago but never got around to using it. There really isn’t any setup other than installing it into your applications directory and starting the services. But I still needed to install Wordpress. This is a very easy process everytime I have done it before, but I didn’t want to screw things up, so Google to the rescue!
I found this post from ‘05 that confirmed what I thought. Setup a database in myPHP, change wp-config and run the WP installer. That process took about 10 minutes, maybe.
And now, I have a full version of Wordpress running on my laptop, ready to take all the plug-ins and themes I use so I can tweak them offline without having to worry about having an internet connection, setting them up online (which I have done in the past, what a pain) or making changes to a live site.
I know, it really doesn’t take much for me.
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