Archive for March, 2003

Guess Who Got Two Cookies?!

Author: Sven Rafferty
Friday, March 28, 2003

Katelyn told me that she had to go poo poo, so I took her to the potty. I didn’t think she really had to go, but lo and behold a few minutes later after reading her a book, she tells me, “All done”. I lift her up and there it was, poop! I’ve never been so happy to see poop! It was awesome. She went poo poo in the potty!!!

I hugged her and screamed and was all happy. After cleaning her up, we went and got mommy (fresh out of the shower) and showed her. Mommy was just as happy. We then went and got her promised two cookies. Yup, yup, Girl Scout Mint cookies!

I’ll have the pix up real soon. Too good to be true! If she’s potty trained before 2 1/2, that would be awesome!!!



Friday, March 28, 2003

This whole East Coast Macworld thing is getting ridiculous. Now, IDG wants to call it something else, which is the lamest name I’ve ever heard, too. Well, at least us West Coast people still get the good name…

Macworld Expo organiser IDG World Expo has announced that this summer’s show won’t carry its traditional name, but be re-titled Create – just as our colleagues over at Think Secret revealed earlier this week. Read More…



Sutter’s Fort

Author: Sven :iz: Mobile
Thursday, March 27, 2003

We’re here at Sutter’s Fort for History Day and it’s pretty cool. Katelyn is about to make a doll out oe corn husks. I’m watchin’ Mr. Anderson clean out the oven to put in the bread.

Pix coming tonight!



Microsoft IS Evil!

Author: Sven Rafferty
Thursday, March 27, 2003

Ok, here’s the proof. Now, I know that Bill likes darkness (hey, he lives in Washington, it rains there all the time!), but to punish the rest of the world?! Come on, Bill, let us have our UNIX!! :lol:

Also click on the image and read the caption below it. It is just too funny. I got this from PC Magazine.



Metal Is Better

Author: Sven Rafferty
Wednesday, March 26, 2003

After playing with some hacks on Safari’s interface, I got to admit, the metal does look better then the Aqua. Guess Apple knows best. :)



Ugh

Author: Sven Rafferty
Wednesday, March 26, 2003

I just looked at the bottom of my page in Safari. Yuck. Man, I don’t know why Mac’s and PC’s just can’t get along. The JavaScript on the BlogAmp works fine on the PC, but her in Mac land, nope. You’re note suppose to see all the file information per song. That’s exposed when you click the songs title (at least on the PC). I’m going to end up using another product soon, anyway, so that that’ll be fixed then. As to the bottom, ya, I’ll get to that soon, too. Guess if I were using this Mac daily, I’d be more encouraged to do it soon_er_ :) .



The Doctor is In

Author: Sven Rafferty
Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Yes, junk mail is a funny thing. Sometimes I like putting in fictitious titles on forms and see what happens. What happens is you find out who’s selling your name to who. This one I had to scan (click the image for a larger view) because it’s who it’s from that cracked me up. Road & Track. What’s so funny about that, you ask? Well, I only used this title for my subscription for AutoWeek! They’re selling my name to the competition! :lol: . Is that a hoot or what?!

BTW, I wouldn’t ever get Road & Track anyway. It’s owned by a French company.



LINUX Is a Bit Insecure

Author: Sven Rafferty
Wednesday, March 26, 2003

One thing I’ve noticed in the last few months of making updates to the svenlox section is how there are a lot of LINUX updates and vulnerabilities. Today there are three or four alone. To be fair, a lot of the updates are from various vendors for the same thing, but still, I do see a shared vulnerability often. Red Hat seems to fair the best and Debian and SuSe the worst, if you are taking note. :)



In Control (at the Club)

Author: Sven Rafferty
Tuesday, March 25, 2003

I went to work out today and all the TV’s basically had crap on them. I don’t care for ESPN and all the sports stuff (unless it’s hockey or the Steelers), definitely don’t like BET and it’s skin–er–videos, soaps–not, and talk shows don’t do it for me. So, what does one do? Change the channel. Seems like lots of people were doing that, because the buttons to change the channels on the TV’s themselves were removed! No problem. Remember, I have my iPAQ with me at all times. I use it as an MP3 player while working out and today, I realized, ‘Ah ya, I have the Nevo on this’. So, I opened it up, selected Magnavox for the TV and bingo, I was changing channels with my iPAQ! hehehehe. I changed my TV from a tired soap to Fox News. I changed BET, too. People don’t need to see that crap. :)



Blogging from Safari 67

Author: Sven Rafferty
Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Yup, that’s right, I’m making this blog entry from Safari beta 67. Boy oh boy, are the tabs awesome! Click the screen cap to see the tabs, better. I like it better then Camino’s version! It’d be cool if they added the sites icon in the tab like NetCaptor, but over all, it is way cool. The form filler is also new for this version and is alright. It claims in the Preferences tab to fill in user name and passwords, but hasn’t offered on sites like Yodlee and when I force it via the new toolbar button, it claims there are no fields to fill. So, Apple needs to do some work on this bug.

Another bug, cookies. It still does a horrible job on them. I couldn’t log into my admin console for my blog until I hacked the cookie engine on the server! Apple apparently knows about this since beta 60, but still hasn’t fixed it. It also chokes on MyReplayTV.com, too.

Another new addition, Download Manager. It’s killer. In fact, I think it uses the same technology of multiplexing downloads such as SpeedDownloader does. It downloaded a 2MB file in seconds! I like it. It is very nice.

As to speed, I don’t know, Steve. The sites I’m hitting, Camino seems faster. My site, for example, takes longer to load on Safari 67 then Camino 70. Though I do love Safari’s load progress indicator :) .

As to the UI? Ugh, please enough of the brushed metal. Give me that Aqua back! Fortunately, since this is written in Coco, there is a hack out that will let me do just that, bring back the Aqua.

Ok, now that this will be the last leaked private beta of Safari since Apple officially killed the Seed project Monday, bet you’d love to get a copy of this, huh? I’m not too sure why Apple gives some beta’s out and others it doesn’t, but I’m sure glad I finally got this. Now I don’t have to fret and wait for the next public release. :)