From the desk of Speedy..
Morning / Afternoon / Evening, IMOC person. It would seem that some clowns/pond scum decided it would be fun to pick on us again, and have scrawled their nonsense over the site, and probably into your inbox..
This will cause some downtime while I clear the mess up, and find out what exploit in phpBB was used for them to do this. If you are a moderator / committee person, I will be resetting all of your passwords, and you will be informed about them in due course. I will be at work for today, and unavoidably out until later this evening. When I’m back, I’ll get my web-broom out and start clearing up the mess.
You are of course welcome to post your comments below, please be advised that comments on Luckymonkey are moderated before they go live.
(Added - If you have got an email from the IMOC site, please just delete it, and don’t reply to it. Clearly, we are aware of what has happened, and flooding the admin team with a bazillion emails will not help us get it sorted any faster.
Thankyou)
My replacement MBP came with iLife08 - brilliant. Time to give this new movie editing program a bit of a workout, and see if those people who think it’s a massive step backwards are right - or if its ease of use outweighs any missing features..
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I’ve discovered these over the past few months, and you begin to wonder how you lived without them..
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(I’m sure the answer to this one is certainly, of course it is, duh). If I had a category for ‘wild speculation, this would certainly be in there, but i’ve been thinking about this, and then I read this TUAW post this morning about iTunes *and* the Apple store being down at the same time.
What *if* the 2 week press time for DVDs which some sites seem to be concerned about (that I can’t find the links to right now) doesn’t actually matter. What if they were going to push Leopard using iTunes and Software update for existing ITMS / 10.4 customers?
From listening to MacBreak Weekly yesterday, the current version of Leopard isn’t quite ready for prime time yet - it would give them a couple more weeks to work on it and make their intended ship date..
Just a thought..
(previously on Luckymonkey - 5 weeks missing)
Tomorrow will be the 5th of October. That makes it 12 weeks since I handed my MacBook Pro over to the Genius at my ‘local’ Apple store. Initially the machine went in for a replacement screen, after something crawled behind the LCD, in front of the backlight and passed away. They would replace the screen under warranty - brilliant.
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Sunday just past was 5 weeks into a ‘5 day’ repair for my MBP. Other than learning some of the things you can do with fetchmail, I have also learnt that it’s utterly useless trying to contact the particular Apple store via the telephone - you might as well just burn your money instead. The only thing you can do is email them and wait for 48 hours before getting a reply..
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Or, how to use Fetchmail to reliably move large quantities of email from one place to another
If, like me, your normal email machine has vanished into a black hole at some service department somewhere *cough*apple*cough*, then you’ll quite quickly find out that :
- Being un-connected is a strange, but not wholly unpleasant experience..
- .. but you still need to get at your email, but you don’t want to be setting it up on another machine because then you’ll just have email spread in a whole bunch of different directions
Fear not - the solution to the problem is just to create a webmail account with GMail* and use Fetchmail to push all of your email in there. All you need is a little terminal magic, and a program which is installed by default in OS X.
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I was down in Southampton today, so I thought I’d go along to the new Apple store (in West Quay), to see if I could pick up one of the new keyboards, as released last Tuesday (along with the new iMac, MiniMac speed bump and a bunch of other stuff). Reason being that I used to really like my MB keyboard, and I don’t like the MBP keyboard quite as much.
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Kill the Dashboard - you haven’t got any widgets which are actually useful, and it’s using RAM which could be used for something else which is actually useful.
Free Wallpapers - including sources which span across multiple monitors..
How Digg Scales - Interesting one this, since 99% of their page views are reads, perhaps they should be generating static content, rather than trying to read everything out of the database..
99 Developer Links - great stuff in here
Sometimes, one of IMOCs more prolific and outspoken members uses a semi-cryptic language for getting her point across. After several months studying this proto-language, I’ve developed the following list :
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