Posts by mikeandike22

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

13 Years Ago

Re: Bash script to capture input, run commands, and print to file

Ok I made some progress not quite working all the way it doesnt like my bashtrap or incremental index

#!/bin/sh
    index=0
    trap bashtrap INT
    bashtrap(){
         echo "CTRL+C aborting bash script"
    }
    echo "starting to log"
    while : 
    do
        read -p "command:" inputline
        if [ $inputline="exit" ]
        then
                echo "Aborting with Exit"
                break
        else
                echo "$index: $inputline" > output
                $inputline 2>&1 | tee output
                (( index++ ))   
        fi
    done

Linux and Unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

13 Years Ago

Re: Bash script to capture input, run commands, and print to file

I currently only receive this output

command read: 10: arg count

what is not allowing me to input the commands.

Linux and Unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

13 Years Ago

Bash script to capture input, run commands, and print to file

input and returning the input: output. Here is the assignment

In the session, provide a command prompt that includes the working directory, e.g., $./logger /home/it244/it244/hw8$

Accept user’s commands, execute them, and display the output on the screen.

During the session, create a temporary file “PID.cmd” (PID is the process ID) to store the command history in the following format (index: command):

1: ls

2: ls -l

If the script is aborted by CTRL+C (signal 2), output a message “aborted by ctrl+c”.

When you quit the logging session (either by “exit” or CTRL+C),

a. Delete the temporary file

b. Print out the total number of the commands in the session and the numbers of successful/failed commands (according to the exit status).

here is my code so far (which did not go well, I would not try to run it)

#!/bin/sh
  trap 'exit 1' 2
  trap 'ctrl-c' 2

  echo $(pwd)
  while true
  do
    read -p command
    echo "$command:" $command >> PID.cmd
 done

Linux and Unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

Re: Mod_rewrite adding unneeded path to rewrite

RewriteRule ^.+/(js|css)(.+)\.(min)\.([0-9]+)\.(js|css)$ /docroot/$1$2.$3.$5

This Works

Linux and Unix apache web-server

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

Mod_rewrite adding unneeded path to rewrite

SO I am trying to setup a RewriteRule on my server for caching static objects. the files are in this naming scheme /docroot/css/stylesheet.min.css and I have them printed in the code like /docroot/css/stylesheet.min.123438348.css (the number is example it comes from a get modified function). Note docroot is an example directory

how can I have the server ignore the numbers and redirect to the stylesheet.min.css I need to do this for every css and js files (/js and /css) as well as one specific spritemap image

my current attempt

RewriteRule ^/(docroot)/(js|css)/(.+).(min).(.+).(js|css)$ /$1/$2/$3.$4.$6
RewriteRule ^(/docroot/images/spritemap).([0-9]+).(png)$ $1.$3

Update: Now I have the setup like this

<Location />
RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.(min)\.([0-9]+)\.(js|css)$ $1.$2.$4 [L]
</Location>

This is rewriting localhost/docroot/css/stylesheet.min.12343242.css to /var/www/html/docroot/trunk/docroot/css/stylesheet.min.css

so it is getting the right file how do I get apache to take off the beginning of the that the /var/www/html/docroot/trunk/

<Location />
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^(.+)\.(min)\.([0-9]+)\.(js|css)$ $1.$2.$4 [PT]
</Location>

Ok Now instead of

/var/www/html/docroot/trunk/docroot/css/stylesheet.min.css

I am getting a url that looks like this

/docroot/trunk/docroot/css/stylesheet.min.css

I Removed the RewriteBase command so I still need to remove the beginning /docroot/trunk

Linux and Unix apache web-server

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

Re: [Jquery] Collapse side bar

Wow silly mistake still doesnt work completely but line 4 and 5 of the jquery I forgot the '$'

Web Development javascript javascript-jquery

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

Re: [Jquery] Collapse side bar

Example I used this method successfully in

<Doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src=https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js />
<script src=https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.5/jquery-ui.min.js />
<style>
	.sideBar{
		height: 800px;
		background-color:#000;
		width:100px;
		float:left;
		color:#fff;
	}
	.mainContent{
		width:100%;
		height:100%;
		background-color:#f5f5f5;
	}
	.collapse{
		width:0px;
		background-color:#ccc;
	}
	.hide{
		display:none;
	}
</style>
<script>
	$(function(){
		$('a').click(function(){
			
			$('.sideBar').toggleClass('collapse',1200);
			$('.vertNav').toggleClass('hide',900);
			if($(this).html() == '&lt; Collapse'){
				$(this).html('Expand &gt;');			
			}
			else{
				$(this).html('&lt; Collapse');
			}
		});
	});
</script>
</head>
<body>
 <section class=sideBar >
	<nav class=vertNav >
	 <ul>
	  <li>Link 1</li>
	  <li>Link 2</li>
	 <li>Link3</li>
	</ul
	</nav>
 </section>
 <a href=# > &lt; Collapse</a>
 <section class=mainContent>
	<p>Lorem upsum</p>
	<p>Lorem upsum</p>
	<p>Lorem upsum</p>
	<p>Lorem upsum</p>
</section>
</body>
</html>

Web Development javascript javascript-jquery

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

[Jquery] Collapse side bar

I am trying to collapse a sidebar with Jquery I have accomplished this with a simpler example but would like to incorporate it into a more complex document here is the code

<aside id="leftColumn" class="left sideBar"> <!--Thing I want to Collapse-->
        	
                <nav class="leftNav">
		   <ul class="align_right indiBtn">
                         <li class="dashboard"><a href="#" title="Dashboard" style="color:#fff;text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #44aadb;">Dashboard</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#" title="Documents" style="text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #eee;">Documents</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#" title="Chat" style="text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #eee;">Chat</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#" title="Settings" style="text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #eee;">Settings</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </nav>	
        </aside><!--//end #leftColumn//-->
	<a href="#" class="horizCollapse"><button>&#x25C0;</button></a><!-- Button used to trigger

//CSS code
#leftColumn{
	margin:20px;
	padding-right:20px;
	border-right:1px solid #d7d7d7;
}
.leftNav ul li{
	height:38px;
	width:150px;
	border:1px solid #fff;
	display:block;
	margin:10px 0;
	border-radius:5px;
	-moz-border-radius:5px;
	-webkit-border-radius:5px;
	background-color:#f5f5f5;
	background:
	-webkit-gradient(
			linear,
			left bottom,
			left top,
			color-stop(0.27, #d2d3d3),
			color-stop(0.97, #fdfbfb),
			color-stop(1, #e9ebec)
	);
	background:
	-moz-linear-gradient(
		center bottom,
		#d2d3d3 27%,
		#fdfbfb 97%,
		#e9ebec 100%
	);
	-webkit-transition: all .2s;
	-moz-transition: all .2s;
	transition: all .2s;
	box-shadow:1px 1px 0px 3px #bdc6c8;
	-moz-box-shadow:1px 1px 3px #bdc6c8;
	-webkit-box-shadow:1px 1px 3px #bdc6c8;
}
.horizCollapse{
	position:absolute;
	left:194px;
	font-size:16px;
	top: 73px;
}
.collapse{width:0px;}
.hide{display:none;}

Jquery code

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
 	$('a').click(function(){
		('.sideBar').toggleClass('collapse',1000);
		('#leftNav').toggleClass('hide', 200);
		if($(this).html() == '&lt; Collapse'){
				$(this).html('&#x25B6;');			
			}
			else{
				$(this).html('&#x25C0;');
			}
		
	});
});
</script>

Any comments appreciated trying to get better at jquery main wall im hitting is just inconsistency when functions dont want to work on similar setups to tutorials.

Web Development javascript javascript-jquery

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

Re: Regex in jquery

That doesnt seem to match anything when I run the page it doesnt change the src when I rollover and in notepad++ the expression doesnt match anything when I set the find to regex.

Web Development javascript javascript-jquery

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

Re: Regex in jquery

Yea I am not that great with regex or jquery so I am open to any suggestions, Right now I am busy but will post on here when I find out if that solution works.

Web Development javascript javascript-jquery

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

Regex in jquery

Hello I am writing a script that will replace the src of an image when the user hovers over it. I am using jquery and regex to accomplish this and have tested it on my local server but the src of the images on the live server is different and uses a non-relative path.
Here is my code

$(document).ready(function() {
            $("img.imagefield").mouseover(function() { 
			var regex = "^(http|https|ftp)\://[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(:[a-zA-Z0-9]*)?/sites/all/files/[a-zA-Z]*";
            var src = $(this).attr("src").match(regex) + "_silly";
                                        $(this).attr("src", src);
                                })
                                .mouseout(function() {
                                        var src = $(this).attr("src").replace("_silly", "");
                                        $(this).attr("src", src);
                                });
          });

the regular expression should match something like
http://www.examplesite.com/sites/all/files/John.jpg?161717717 (the random numbers at the end are just some added junk drupal throws on for some reason)
and then when you hover over the image it should be
http://www.examplesite.com/sites/all/files/John_silly.jpg?161717717
and then return to the original src when you mouseout.
and change it to

Web Development javascript javascript-jquery

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

14 Years Ago

Re: Trouble with Background Image in IE7

do you have a live version of this or something I dont see anything terribly wrong with the code especially regarding the body background image. I might suggest just putting the image in a div with an img tag and then preloading it in the css so id have like
<container>
<img />
<header></header>
<content></content>
<footer></footer>
<div id="preload">
</div>

#preload{background: url(img);display:none;}

UI / UX Design html-css image web-browser web-design

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

15 Years Ago

Re: Jquery add alt tags to all images

That did not work for me I made a document with an image with a set alt and one thats not. This is the code I am trying to alter right now.

$(document).ready(function(){
				var altText;
				altText = $('img.this').getAttribute('alt');
				if ( altText == ""){
					$('img.this').attr('alt','some text');
				}
			 });

Web Development javascript javascript-jquery programming-construct seo

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

15 Years Ago

Jquery add alt tags to all images

Ok so im using hubspot for inbound marketing and the have a thing called page grader that finds errors in your page. The most common warning is page has images without alt text. Since im dealing with a really big drupal site and dont want to go through every image and set an alt I would rather just have a JQuery script run check if it has alt if not add some plain default.

I have the easy part with setting the alt attribute
$(img).attr('alt', 'some text');

but Im not sure how to loop and find images that dont have alts because if they do have one set it is obviously going to be more relevant to search engines as well as people with disabilities who use the alt tags.

Web Development javascript javascript-jquery programming-construct seo

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

15 Years Ago

Re: Drupal and Salesforce syncing

I just read about this tool called Drush. Has anyone had any experience using this tool. I was thinking to try and solve my problem I could just use the tool to dump the mysql table, then dump the SOQL(Salesforce) table and compare the two. I figure it will help with mapping so at least I can have this documented.
I feel like a lot of people want to accomplish this but it has not really been properly documented so my goal for this week is to figure it out for everyone I will post a code snippet later tonight and all progress here.

Web Development php

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

15 Years Ago

Re: Drupal and Salesforce syncing

Bump.
I wasnt sure if this is the right category for this post. I picked it because Web Services and SOAP are related. However I guess databases or some other category would be appropriate. If your a mod who comes along this thread place in the category you feel matches the post best.

Web Development php

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

15 Years Ago

Drupal and Salesforce syncing

Hello I am developing a module / script that gets information stored about user nodes in the drupal database and sends it to our Salesforce lead generation form. So I am pretty new to this and have a couple of questions that I think the community might be able to point me in the right direction ive spent hours searching already.
1st: How do I find all the fields stored for a node like a funtion that will print out every field a user has in the database.
2. How do I access values stored in a taxonomy.
This is probably the hardest part for me to figure out, I havent been able to print out the values of a taxonomy for the users.
The mapping to salesforce is the easiest part the fields are easily found in salesforce but I am just an intern trying to map the rest of the fields while the main developer is busy so its mostly done the only critical part left is a section where you select a value from a picklist which have parents and children I have no idea how to find these values.

3. Is there any way to view the actual script that runs when a form is submitted. I am new to drupal and as said before most things im working on are half developed so Im not sure if this is a problem with drupal or the way the development team integrated …

Web Development php

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

15 Years Ago

Re: The Zune goes HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfC4p4WGfb4
good review of the zune software that just came out alongside the zune hd.

Mobile and Wearables apple microsoft

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: LG an iPhone rival unlikely

The real iPhone killer is going to be a sleek stylish phone with those features + 3rd party applications.

Hardware apple apple-hardware iphone smartphone

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: LG an iPhone rival unlikely

The LG KE850 is not a copycat...it was announced before the iPhone and already won an award for its design in 2007.

Hardware apple apple-hardware iphone smartphone

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

My take on the Apple iPhone

Apple has just announced its long awaited iPhone and I have to admit it looks like a nice device. It is a little pricey,$500 for a 4gb model and $600 for an 8gb model. Also you should probably have to consider the price of cancelling your current provider's plan. However I do think it is an innovative product, maybe not in the way most people see it. I think that now the cell phone market is already crowded and most people own a cell phone and an mp3 player. So I dont think this is really going to crack into the average cell phone user market mainly because of price point. Also it doesnt look like a device suited for business because most business people already so used to their blackberries and what have you, sometimes IT departments have entire teams based around providing support for its blackberry users. So businesses are probably not going to switch over to a very flashy smart phone that isnt going to work as well for them as something that can access outlook or MS documents. I see the iPhone defining really a whole new market. For a long time now companies have been trying to incorporate media onto their cellphones, well Apple stepped in and did it very well. It is rather similar to the way the iPod defined the standard for the portable mp3 player, now the iPhone is establishing a standard for the media phone and everyone is going to have …

Hardware apple-hardware iphone

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Incredible shrinking technology

also mention the 0.059in speaker panasonic is developing, which would be the smallest speaker in the world

Linux and Unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Rockbox iPod Firmware alternative

http://www.rockbox.org/
I have been playing around with Rockbox the alternative firmware for the Apple iPod and other popular MP3 players. So im basically just going to go over some of my likes and dislikes of the software so far.

Likes

For one if you are strictly an opensource guy and follow that like a religion than you will like the fact that Rockbox supports ogg format which the Apple firmware does not. I havent really used this yet considering most of my songs are ripped in mp3 format and only on occasion do I download a podcast in ogg. Although I have heard several people tell me that ogg has a much better sound quality.
It is very themable you can find a lot of themes on rockbox's website. Now you are probably saying well so is the iPod. However I have themed the Apple iPod firmware before and it was much more of a hassle than rockbox.
One of the ultimate advantages to using rockbox is the drag and drop support it adds to your iPod. This is helpful when you have to put one or two songs you just got onto the ipod w/o launching into itunes or loading up some other software like anapod. Also useful in other OS's when they do not have software that can easily recognize the iPod and you need to add a file.
DOOM and other games are available to play on rockbox. You might …

Hardware apple-hardware

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Apple iPhone: Do we really need it?

It is now pretty much confirmed that sometime next year or in the recent future Apple will be releasing a cell phone. So far some rumors circulating around the interweb say that it is going to include two separate batteries one for the cell phone portion of the "phone" and the other for the music player portion. Now I have said this many times to people I dont want/need my phone to play music. Seriously I have an iPod and I have a phone I dont need them to be intermingled together. Also something that strikes me as somewhat odd is how is Apple going to pull off an ultra sleek stylish cool phone with two batteries and storage for songs. It sounds more like Microsoft should be designing this phone. The other rumor that doesnt surprise me is that it will be running some sort of variant mobile OS X on the phone. Unless Apple has been working on some other Operating system I wouldnt see why it would be built off of anything else. The thing is with all these cell phones already out there does anyone really want to have a Apple iPhone. People already have their razr´s and krzrs or w.e the hell these motorola phones they are coming out with are called. So are you really going to trade in the phone for this one which is most likely going to be rather expensive {even though apple is now cheaper than dell, give me a …

Hardware apple-hardware iphone

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Why I have decided to switch from Linux to BSD

Ive never tried but I asume it could be installed on older machines somehow.

macOS bsd open-source operating-system ubuntu unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Why I have decided to switch from Linux to BSD

It isnt that there are a lot of stories about it. I think that distros like Ubuntu have split linux so now there is an ubuntu way of doing everything and its not just ubuntu im just using it as an example because it is most common.

macOS bsd open-source operating-system ubuntu unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Why I have decided to switch from Linux to BSD

oh all it doesnt specifically say on the Apple site it just says
"With its open-source core based on FreeBSD 5.0 and the Mach 3.0 microkernel, Mac OS X is the best Macintosh operating system ever for UNIX users." So I assumed it was using parts of both kernels.

macOS bsd open-source operating-system ubuntu unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Why I have decided to switch from Linux to BSD

Well for the Distros part its because you are splitting the operating system like for example there is no longer one common way to compile a kernel for each distro if you read all the tutorials that are out there. I just dont think they should splinter it that much because people will be confused when they want to decide to move to linux and they dont have any idea wat distro to choose. I can see why you disagree thats your opinion. For the GNU/Linux thing I recently watched a video on the history of linux I believe it is on google video in its entirity and there is some hostility for the people who created the GNU OS and get little credit for it.

macOS bsd open-source operating-system ubuntu unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Why I have decided to switch from Linux to BSD

Recently I have decided to switch from Ubuntu linux to Freebsd and here I am going to outline why.

1. The Ubuntification of linux: Lately I have noticed a trend on social bookmarking sites, mainly digg, which have people posting articles with titles like "Ubuntu Tutorials" or something similar. In fact most of these articles apply to any distrubution and very few have anything even remotely ubuntu specific. So I dont like the idea that linux users are being so divided over distros and also that now people are starting to see ubuntu and not linux. I am all for the advancement of linux and other free and opensource operating systems, but not with sacrificing the core idea of the OS.

2. The GPL: This is another thing that bothers me about linux is that the gpl is so restrictive on everything you do has to be opensource because that is better and produces better results. However people dont respond to this obviously, I personallty believe some open source projects are better than there coporate rivals but they are few and far between. It is simple economics that people see price as quality and they judge the quality of a good or service by how much a firm is willing to spend on advertising. So I think the BSD license is a far better idea. Having opensource projects is great, but I think that if someone has a vast improvement to the source code they should be able …

macOS bsd open-source operating-system ubuntu unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Should of Google Waited to buy Youtube?

So the long speculated purchase of Youtube by Google finally happened for a whopping $1.65 billion (pocket change for Google). However I think this wasnt the right time and that they could of gotten it for cheaper.
Youtube had a cost of over a million dollars to run a month with very little revenue. So in my opinion eventually it was necessary for a big company like Google to step up and buy it, but why not wait for them to be sortof desperate for money. Most people arent gonna invest $2 million just to keep a site up for a month and a half or so without any return on investment, it is just not economically smart. Another thing Google could have waited for would have been for Youtube to get sued by some movie company for copyright infringement. If this happened Youtube could have fallen hard and most movie companies wont have that hard fighting a company with no money in court. However I dont know if any company can match the money Google could spend in court over copyright infringement. So in that situation I think it would be a win win, we would still have Youtube (maybe a few Google ads here and there) and most likely Google would win the case leading to a big step in iptv content.
Most people see the value of Youtube as advertising material. Oh think of how much money they could make putting an ad before each …

Search Engine Strategies pay-per-click

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Tables?! Don't be a div.

I disagree with most of this but I agree that tables still hold a place in web. Tables were not intended to display the design of the website but to display tabular information as one might expect. So the original intention was to have them display spreadsheet type information and then people found out if I stuck a bunch of images instead of text in there I could make a pretty website. However I believe that CSS is a lot more flexible and allows a website to be more configurable.

Community Center

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Facebook Facelift makes for disgruntled users

If you are a user of the popular social networking site Facebook you might have noticed the recent redesign along with the new features that they added. You also might have noticed the response from the users of Facebook whom find the new site creepy. The new home page lists every little action that your friends have done on the site including things like who they added, comments they have written, changes on their profile, pictures they have added, and so on.

In my experience the whole appeal of facebook was that it wasnt as open as myspace and not everyone could just wander upon your profile and see your info. Now this completly changed and Facebook has said in their defense that all the information that is viewed in the new "Feeds" could have been viewed before. Which technically is true, but it would take some actual snopping and constant monitoring of your friends page. For example when it tells you exactly what someone wrote on someone else's "wall" that is a little overboard. I dont think everyone of your friends has to know who you talk to and when.

Overall it is a bad redesign it is very cluttered and displays too much unwanted information. I have a feeling that facebook will be changing it soon seeing as how many of their members dislike it and probably hundreds of groups have been formed now about their dislike of the facelift and some of these groups have …

Digital Marketing social-media

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: ReactOS Review

Wine is a recursive acronynism for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". An emulator means that it would have to emulate the processor and the process or something like that im not exactly sure and wine runs the program as a native application which emulators do not. Also wine uses no windows source code.

Linux and Unix apache microsoft unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: ReactOS Review

well it is more complicated than just using wine but I still think they should be further along than 0.3 after 10 years.

Linux and Unix apache microsoft unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

ReactOS Review

ReactOS is an open source operating system that has been in development for 10 years. The main goal of the project is to build an operating system that is completly compatible with Windows XP. It uses all free software and uses a similar directory structure and program names to Windows. For example on the desktop you can see on the desktop a command prompt instead of a terminal or shell. Also people will notice a similar start menu and small things like notepad. What this also means is you can use binary exe's on ReactOS. One of the biggest differences people encounter when moving from Windows to a *nix system are that there isnt a universal installer and there are several different filetypes and methods of installing software. I would deffinitely recommend downloading firefox instead of using the ReactOS ibrowser which was not very good.

I think this is a cool project, but development seems to be going slow as I mentioned before it is in its 10th year and so far the newest version is only 0.3. It would be cool to see this project gather some speed although it cant keep up to corporations like microsoft or other opensource operating systems like Linux which has a much larger community. So it is a nice project and concept, but is not quite ready to use as a standalone operating system. I hope to see it develop faster in the near future as it has recently had some press …

Linux and Unix apache microsoft unix

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Hey Guys

Hey guys sorry I havent been keeping up with posts lately ive been working on getting a clients website up and running/launched for a day or 2. I would like to thank everyone who voted for me in the blogging competition (win or loose still a couple hours to go) and all the people who have been reading my blog.

Meta DaniWeb

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Beaten Up Over A Beat-Down

What im gonna do if I get a computer that comes with Vista is downgrade it to XP pro and dual boot with linux until vista is ready.

Community Center

mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Why reinvent the wheel? Ask Logitechâ€¦

It does have two scroll wheels as well one on the top and on the side whic h would seem like a major point to make.

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Blogger

Im setting up a blogger account for my blog. Now im not gonna stop writing on daniweb or take my stories off im just settuping up sortof a mirror site to this blog on blogger. All the stories will link back to the stories here. I just wanted another place to post stuff and possibly trick google into giving me some ads(they really get on your case about that stuff).

Here is the Link probably gonna be awhile before I transfer all the posts.

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Sony Bites the Bullet for the Battery Recalls

Although most news circulating around the web about the deffective batteries has to do with Dell or Apple (including one airline not allowing Dell laptops which im sure Dell's PR is very happy about) the company that stands to loose the most seems to be Sony. They are the ones who originally manufactured the defective batteries and then they were bought buy companies like Dell and Apple. So far almost several million batteries are going to be recalled and companies stand to loose billions. Although Sony does not stand to loose all that much money right now they are loosing brand trust and stock is falling and they are also expecting their own recall of batteries used in Sony Vaio computers. From my perspective there is no way that Dell, Apple, and other computer makers are going to rely so heavily on Sony made parts from now on. This is probably why the two companies have gotten together with Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo to come up with new battery standards. Now if two of the biggest players on the personal computer manufacturing market suddenly stop buying a product it could have massive repercussions on a corporation like Sony. People have seen Sony slipping in other areas for some time now. The best example of this is the Playstation 3 which seems like it is going to be way to overpriced and not as featureful as promised again losing out to Microsoft's Xbox 360, which has most of the next generation …

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Beat-Down, Version 4.7.203 (or so)

most companies wouldnt make you buy a whole new license for a program if it is version 2.7.101 if you own the license already maybe version 2.8 or 3.

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Daniweb adds New blog tags

Daniweb's blogging section now has a new feature that will allow the bloggers to add tags to their blogs. This is their latest strive to encourage user blogs which so far has been going very well. Big thanks to Dani who was spent hours coding this new feature :cheesy:!! I hope to see the site expand and I think a cool thing to do with the tags [hint] would be to make a cloud view of blogs or posts[/hint] so people can see what subjects are getting posted about the most. Hope I didnt just spawn a whole new codding session for you Dani LOL.

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Wow one step ahead of me just noticed the tagcload on the blogs page. Great job.

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Apple Wifi Hack. Hoax!?

I couldnt agree more. Just because something is on the front page of digg more and more people will assume that the article is true (which in this case they are, but the arguement has already been proven) and not even bother to look at the originating content.

LOL case and point I submitted this story to digg and right off the bat someone commented saying that this same story had already been submitted and obviously did not bother to read it.
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Wifi_hack_Hoax

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Apple Wifi Hack. Hoax!?

Recently one of the most talked about things is this Apple Wifi hack that was demonstrated by a group called SecureWorks at one of the largest security conferences, Defcon. Here is a link to the video so you guys can watch the video yourselves. Now Here is a link to an article similiar to most articles saying that this video is a hoax. Now if you have watched the video and read an article or similiar one than a question comes to mind. Why are the people writing all these articles and going on and on about something you would already know?

In about the first 10 secs of the video the demonstrator from Secureworks explains that this attack is not a Mac specific hack and that they are in fact using a 3rd party Wifi card with 3rd drivers. He also states the same disclaimer at the end of the video. In most of the articles the first thing they will say is that it is a hoax and that they were really using a 3rd party card/drivers and not the built in Mac book card. Now I dont get it did these "Journalists" just miss the first and last ten or so seconds of the video? They couldnt have the demonstrator made it a clear fact that this is not exclusively associated in anyway with Apple's Wifi card, or Apple's operating system. Which would be another article claim that this doesnt effect just …

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

The Pit of Parallels for Apple

So lately the Apple Fanboys have been talking about this software called Parallels which can emulate Windows inside of Mac OS X. However is this really good or bad for Apple? In the short term I would say yes, but in terms of long term success Microsoft will be hands down winner.

How So? you might ask well this is why. Apple will start to take market share and sell more and more hardware because they are mainly a hardware company. I would still see the PC having the majority of the market share but slipping faster. And who is making money from both Micro$oft. They will have all the sales of the Windows based PC's and the Windows copies being bought to run on parallels. I dont think that they will have to worry too much about piracy because the average pc and average mac user (especially) doesnt know how to do it.

So this is where Apple's starts to loose their money. While Microsoft is focusing more and more on improving ways to make their operating system cross system compatible (they have been working on virtualization and with other companies like xen source) and he Linux desktop becomes more and more user friendly the industry will pressure Apple to make their operating system more available they could go two ways. They could either keep on not making a legal way to run their operating system on other systems (which right now Windows and Linux are technically …

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Dell recalls 4.1 million exploding batteries

Apple has the same problem with some of the mac book pros its the lithium batteries they are using you will see more companies doing this if they dont come up with a solution.

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Windows Live Writer

Havent tried it yet. Like I said Microsoft is probably aiming for that power windows user who thinks word is the greatest.

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer:Windows Live Writer beta is now available to download at http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/. Windows Live Writer is a desktop application for composing blog entries onWindows Live Spaces or other blog services.
Some features include a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor along with an HTML editor and web preview look. I dont see this as much of an improvement on current blogging services out there like Blogger. However this probably does appeal more to the average Windows user who doesnt know about Blogger and is more use to a Word/Office feel for their applications.
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Another feature is photo publishing. Again not that cool of an idea and not that interesting, but still another sortof average Windows user type of deal.
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Ok this feature is pretty cool. Windows Live Writer will have intergration into Windows Live Local the map service on Windows Live. You can place maps into your posts as well as customize them to which view of the map you want your users to see. Along with adding pushpins with detail to show off certain places on the map.
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Windows Live Writer also comes with an SDK so that people can submit other ideas for the application. This is sortof cool any chance that Microsoft has to open up to the community they need to take it. Plus with this the Writer could really develop …

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: Are you an online gaming addict?

Well dont people get addicted to those games all the time.

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mikeandike22 18 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

18 Years Ago

Re: OS wars over as Leopard mauls Vista

Macs arent that secure as people believe and the quality of the iLife Suite has been slipping for years you can find many hardcore mac fans switching to Linux now.

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/05/30/bye-apple
http://www.bryanobryan.com/?p=28

Free operating sytems and opensource is where the industry is going or should go not crazy camera effects and a time machine. Ubuntu is the best example (i dont mean that they are the best distro) but they are getting the word out for linux. They have billboards and ship freecds and stickers. The installation is easier than any windows install and it is not dependant on proprietary hardware to run.

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