Big Blue Box

April 2004

In response to user comments, anonymous comments are now active. Markdown syntax guide is in the works, and thanks for the testing, I’ll use it to sort the CSS next week :-)

For anyone who runs a blog or intends to ever use comments here, this is what I wrote to post the previous entry:

Idiots. I've been employed to get the [Scottish Arts Club][1] website back online, and the [Service Provider][2] has set up the webspace (or rather *hasn't* set up the webspace) without including a cgi-bin. Does anyone know how I can create a cgi-bin *sans* root (or even telnet) access?

[1]: http://www.scottishartsclub.co.uk/ "One of my sites"
[2]: http://www.domainbuster.com/ "The host of quite a few of my sites, unfortunately"

Pretty cool, no?

Idiots. I’ve been employed to get the Scottish Arts Club website back online, and the Service Provider has set up the webspace (or rather hasn’t set up the webspace) without including a cgi-bin. Does anyone know how I can create a cgi-bin sans root (or even telnet) access?

Well the only two people who I actually know read this site have now posted in the comments. That was fun wasn’t it! Back to the usual nothingness of b3uk as usual now then?

We are go for launch! I guess now I’ll find out if anyone is remotely interested in anything I have to say huh? There’s still some display issues here and there, but the comments system should be working now, fingers crossed. If you do spot anything awry which you think I might not have noticed, please… leave a comment!

P.S. Markdown, Smartypants and URL conversion are all enabled. But not HTML comments. You all know why.

Cool, figured it out. MT has a built in tag with performs exactly the same function as Server Side Includes. A standard SSI calls a file for inclusion into the page like this:<!--#include file="/includes/footer.html"-->And an MTInclude tag works like this:<$MTInclude file="/includes/footer.html"$> Stage two of the saga of comments begins…

Comments are partially enabled, no design yet to speak of because I can't figure out how to use SSI with them. The problem is (I think) that MT processes the page before it sends it to whoever requested it. So that the server can't do its funky including bit :-(

Due to user complaints (you know who you are), I'm implementing comments. Test mode initiated, bear with me :-)

For anyone still reading, I've moved the old site to its own sub-domain, classic.b3uk.net. 'The Lord of the Roughs' is still there too. :-D

Apple released Motion the other day. It’s a:

“high-performance motion graphic design and production application”

…and it looks really cool. Or so I thought until I read the system requirements! Apple recommends the following system:

• Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5
• 4GB of RAM or more
• Mac OS X v10.3.3 or later
• ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card or better

Yes, you read that correctly; 4 Gigabytes of RAM. Or more! OK, OK, it probably only needs that much RAM when you’re editing HD footage but still, that’s a LOT of RAM.

I worked out how to make sub-domains for my site! So I'm going to set up domains for all my site designs which are no longer hosted anywhere. First up: Thirty Seconds. The most interesting bit of it (apart from my gorgeous design naturally) is my 30 second movie.

I'm going to do some updates. Promise. Honestly... Maybe....

My favourite ever power-user utility, Launchbar, has just updated to version 4. Just it time too, as there is now some competition. Quicksilver is extremely pretty, but lacks Launchbar's expansive feature set. This may not be a bad thing for everyone of course.

Any minute now someone will rip-off Launchbar completely and incorporate it into OS X.. or worse still into Windows... Yeuch...

Looks like re-design season! My brother appears to be at it too. Not much there yet, but cool nevertheless. His CV makes for interesting reading as it includes lots of links to sites he's done. Makes me wonder if I should do another re-design... Or maybe I should just finish this one?

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