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Tech Stuff

Belkin cassette adapter car stereos

March 4, 2004

This is a widget that looks like an audio cassette with a cable coming out of it. The cable plugs into the headphone jack of a piece of audio gear and lets you run the output through your car stereo. Technically it works. Unfortunately the output sounds like a crystal set. If you care enough [...]

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iPod not ready for prime time

March 4, 2004

I bought Lisa an iPod for christmas, so she can listen to it while she runs. She loves it. Unfortunately, the experience has not been so pleasant for the tech support crew. Which of course is me, myself and I. I got her the windows version, since that’s what she uses. There is, of course, [...]

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WordPress URL problems continue

February 2, 2004

After my last entry, I thought I had Zinmasters all squared away. Unfortunately I was wrong: Here are rewrite rules suggested by WordPress: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&page=$4 [QSA] RewriteRule ^archives/category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA] The first one doesn’t work for some reason. I now know that the problem is on the right side of [...]

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WordPress calendar link problem/fix

January 26, 2004

This is a 1.0 bug report, so it may have been fixed in 1.0.1. Here’s the deal. One of the side effects of Worpress feeding everything out of MySQL is that everything has a native url of index.php?[something-or-other]. This sounds harmless, but when Google and it’s ilk come to crawl your site, it looks like [...]

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MySQL 4.0 update gotcha

January 26, 2004

I updated MySQL from 3.23.28 (shipped with Redhat 9) to 4.0.17 last week so that I could install Zen Cart. The chatter on the net said that this upgrade is a little more eventful than it ought to be, and so it is. The first hassle is that many many other applications are set to [...]

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WordPress Works

January 22, 2004

Yesterday we moved the wine log over to www.zinmasters.com. In the process we switched from Moveable Type to WordPress. I’m pleased to report that the whole thing went flawlessly. WordPress installed, MT exported, WP imported, Lisa fired up her spiffy new CSS editor and made the site look the way she thinks it should. We [...]

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PHPMyAdmin HTTP validation infinite loop

January 18, 2004

I set out a couple days ago to install PHPMyAdmin on bunter, the main webserver. (This iin preparation for getting OsCommerce which has no user interface of it’s own going. The default configuration involves putting a superuser password for MySQL into the config file. A simple workaround would have been to goto httpd.conf and only [...]

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