Don’t forget – episode 6×01 of the Office aired last night. It was, in true office form, excellent.
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I’m tinkering with my file server a lot right now, which means I’ve got a big mess of wires behind the drive cage. Plugging in and unplugging drives can be a total bitch, but not today. Today, in the darkest, most inaccessible corner of my server case I needed to plug in two SATA cables. I was cocky, and decided to try to do it without unplugging everything in the way first. And I’m glad I did.
Miraculously, both plugs found their mark and went in on the first try. It was like my fiddling fingers were guided by divine will. A tear came to my eye. And then the oven dinged and told me my California Pizza Kitchen Sicilian pizza is ready.
.. It is a good day.
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Best theme I’ve seen. It’s clean, simple and it looks great. I don’t really know why I’m posting this, but it’s the truth. Of course, epalla v8 is better, but only by a little bit.
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Apparently IE (including IE7) is retarded when it comes to live downloads from a database. This problem manifests itself in particular when it comes to downloading PDFs. That means when you try to load a pdf out of a database with the following incredibly common code snippet:
header("Content-length: $size"); header("Content-type: $type"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
you can “Save Target As” with IE but not actually open it directly from a link. It works fine in Firefox. After much obnoxious tinkering and searching, I discovered that adding:
header("Cache-control: private"); header("Pragma: public");
just makes it magically work.
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I’ve updated the comment template so it doesn’t look like poop, and I’ve cached the digg/reddit links. It updates every hour so the digg/reddit links won’t be 100% up-to-date but that’s ok. It should help the loading times still.
Also – sorry that my reddit feed has so much porn right now. There was good shit out there today.
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Just opted to write about my new laptop and realized the last post was quite a while ago.
Never fear! It’s a big delay but I have a few posts in the works. I’ve been using Windows 7 for a bit now so I have an impressions post on that coming up. I’ll add to it a quick review of my new netbook soon. Once I finish up on bogeypro I’ll be doing some big shifts in the computer world at the house here and I’ll post some about that.
Oh, and of course I’ll finally throw some pictures of the new place up once Jess and I get off our asses and hang some art. We’ve finally got some stuff on a checklist which makes the work just fly by (I love crossing things off). We’ve just finished our balcony and we’ll be moving inside soon. I’m kind of waiting on getting my new couch to really post, so we’ll see about that soon.
Anyway, I’ll try to step it up this week.
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So I know most of you came here for the digg widget, so you’ll be happy to see that it’s back! Actually, it’s been back for a little while now. I did away with the random article in favor of a sort of “epalla widget”. I know that both are running a little bit slow right now – I’m going to have the digg/reddit widgets caching every hour or so which should speed everything up. I’m pulling from the RSS feeds now instead of the widgets.
I’ve got a few updates planned, but my time has been completely consumed with work, finding Jessica a new car and a new (paying, woo!) side project that I’ve taken on. I’ll post more about the car and the side project later.
Now I know I haven’t been in here forever because I’ve got 3 plugin updates and a WordPress update to install. Boo.
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It’s finally finished!
OK, so the goal here was to try to build slowly, waiting for deals on each individual component as they came up. For about a month I was all over Slickdeals and FatWallet waiting for the best picks. I was doing well for a little while, but towards the end I got anxious and did a few impulse buys to finish out the system.
OK, ready for a parts list?
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I had a revelation today and it has simultaneously brought me great relief and the somber realization that I am a total geek. For a few weeks/months now I’ve been wondering just what the hell my computer situation was going to be. What would be my media center, what would be on it, which hardware was going in what system, etc. etc. I think today I’ve finally figured out how everything is going to work, and I’ve been really excited about it ever since.
Read on if you’re actually interested in the gory details
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Well, with a lot of help from Josh we managed to move pretty much all the big stuff to the new apartment. We’ve got the couch, TV, furniture and the computers all moved and everything is still working beautifully (so far). Unfortunately, all the food and dishes are still at the old place, but we can bring stuff over as we need it. I also don’t have a desk to put any of my stuff on on, so Jess’ computer is set up on the coffee table (she sits on the bean bag) and I only got around to installing the new video card and checking out the new PC. IT POSTS! I’ll be hammering out about a million mail-in-rebates later this evening (I hope).
I’ll post more pictures and whatnot of the new place and the new computer soon. I feel some ikea trips coming on.
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Top Gear season 13 started yesterday. The first episode had the bitchin Ferrari FXX (which apparently you can buy but not.. have), a new Lotus which they were calling a super car despite the fact that it’s slower than the Exige S, and a mediocre race between a bike, train and car.
Oh and I almost forgot.
THE STIG IS REVEALED!!
.. not really
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I’m reposting this because I accidentally deleted it. Thank you google cache
My old gaming/development computer is finally starting to show its age. It’s 5 years old now with minimal upgrades so I’m not terribly heartbroken, but I’ve run across three games now that I can’t reasonably play and that’s more than enough justification for me to upgrade.
I’ve always built my own computers and so far I’ve been approaching my new build with this intention. But it occurred to me that I only do this for the cost savings. I have no real desire to put my computer together, I just want to save a bit of money on premium parts. So I decided it would be prudent to see if any of the big brands can match a custom build at a given price point. I put together a newegg wish list so you can see my basis for comparison. Then I went to some of the big manufacturers and tried my best to match these specs with their models.