Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Photos
I have just updated my gallery software from 1.3.3 to 1.4.4-pl2. Lots of fixes and security stuff.
Mmmm which reminds me, I am running out of photo space…..
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Gambas
Apparently Gambas has hit RC 1.0 release status. Ive been looking over it and Im very impressed. This looks like it could be a very interesting RAD tool for Linux.
I like the fact that I can write full blow KDE GUI apps in it without having to do the 100000 lines stuff for handling widgets..
hmm.. a fruther investigation is required.
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Getting Mozilla Firefox to recognise your RSS feed.
I had never quite worked out why Mozilla Firefox would not pick up my RSS feed as it would other sites.
Some sites I would visit would activate the Active Bookmarks (RSS) feature and put a nice little RSS subscribe tag in the status bar… But never for my site…
So after a little fiddling around.. The code you need to add to your site is…
<link REL="alternate" TITLE="Life in Mega-Tokyo" HREF="http://mega-tokyo.com/blog/index.xml" TYPE="application/rss+xml" />
TITLE being the name of my weblog
HREF points to my RSS feed
TYPE tells the browser this is the RSS feed content.
The above tag goes into your index.php/.html or similar, and it must be within the HEAD tag at the top of the page…
I put mine just before I have the </head>
Now I get the snazzy little RSS button in the status bar showing up.
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Sunday, October 24, 2004
Using CuteFTP-Pro’s SFTP/SSH….
I have just learned (doh!) how to get the SFTP working properly with my CuteFTP Pro.
Previously my host only supported ssh1 and SFTP would never work properly.. Sometime during my hike they upgraded to supporting ssh2…
So I spent the last 10 minutes futzing about to make sure the ftp to my host is secure.
There was only a couple of steps to get it all working properly.
Putty’s public key file is a standard ssh2 public key file, which is fine. Putty however, for its private key has its own format but puttygen can export valid ssh2 format private keys.
Unfortunatly CuteFTP Pro can only handle a single ssh key… so it has to be the same across sites which sucks but anyway, I only need one.
So, I used puttygen to export my sites private key into an ssh2 format key, which I pointed CuteFTP at, and pointed it to the public key.
Amazingly enough, it all worked fine first go! sweet.
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Saturday, October 23, 2004
Trivial Persuit
Helen, Stu and I played trivial persuit last night. The 20th Century Edition or something.
I won!! whooo!
I think I drank a third of a bottle of red wine. Stu had about 7 beers and Helen was doing this Smirnoff vodka+lime mix thing (its like 5% alch).
It was a close match, but I won out in the end. I think it was the brown cheese or the pink cheese that I had the most trouble with…
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topical…
“America Elects World Leader, World Denied Vote”
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