Hi all,
Sorry about this. It looks like all of the post data is still in the database, so nothing has been lost - but - the site seems to have lost it’s marbles about how they are all connected together. I’ll be replacing the forum software with something else which should be more reliable.
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Just installed it - updated..
Ok - I installed it for a day or so, and then I had to remove it again. Why? - because it’s got a couple of showstoppers for me. Most of the work I do is with PHP, so the potential for comparing previous revisions in the application itself looked very good. Alas, it doesn’t treat .php files as text files, so it doesn’t offer the comparison option. In addition to that, I had a few applications (transmission being one) struggling with TimeDrawer running. I guess it’s probably trying to archive the torrents being downloaded and getting in a twist somehow
All that said - it does look like a nice application, and if I could work out how to make it recognise .php as plain text files, then it might be worth considering.
Better still would be a TimeDrawer type interface into Subversion, which I also use for Source code control.. i’d pay money for that one
Videos after the jump..
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In a very strange turn of events, the post about the Cadwell Trackday Weekend (aka, the ‘Hag’ do), managed to find it’s way into last months edition of Mr2 Only Magazine. Very strange, and now I notice just how bad my concentration and writing is, but there you go - here is the clip :
Further Update - thanks for everybodies comments below, as of about lunchtime today the hosting provider resolved the problems with the RAID setup and the read only filesystem, and IMOC is back up and running.
Yes - it’s down at the moment, and no, its not totally scheduled downtime. We were waiting for the new hosting provider to put in the rest of the memory into the new server, which it looks like they have now done - but something has gone terribly awry with it when it came back up.. We’re working on it at the moment.
Added - Ok, looks as if part of the filesystem only remounted read-only when the machine came back up, and a subsequent attempted reboot has not made things any better. We will be issuing a support request to the hosting provider, and hopefully they can fix whatever has gone wrong with the machine.
More Added - It looks like the machine will be down until at least tomorrow morning..
Updated News - The latest from the hosting company is that when they shut the machine down to install the memory, they didn’t shut it down cleanly, and it’s borked the RAID’ed disks, so they’ve got into a kind of panic mode for safety. They are working on it now.
Final Word on the matter : Is back on the now functioning IMOC Forums
Hmm, if you’re bored, can I suggest this thing from YouTube instead :
You put the lime in the coconut… I say, doctor!
Speedy
IMOC Committee
101-essential-freelancing-resources - which came via Lifehacker. Really great list of applications (browser based & traditional). One which I’m interested in is ActiveCollab - an open source clone of Basecamp (although it’s implemented in PHP, not Ruby + Rails). I’ll be trialling this one out. I do really like Basecamp, but the powers that be wouldn’t go for the monthly cost, and the inability to hack it to better suit us (without creating a wrapper site using the API + our own data).
Refresh the finder - Sometimes, finder (bless it), just won’t freaking refresh the current display of files. This is far more common on network shares mounted via SMB, even SSHFS shares seem to be work ok. Anywho, this allows you to add a refresh button to your finder window.
XKCD, Very funny online comic, if you’re slightly nerdy/geeky (or a lot, in my case..)
How to setup your own video streaming on your network using VLC (more useful than it sounds 
)
If you’ve got a whole bunch of movies on one machine, which you’d like to watch on another, then you’ve got 2 options. If the movies play in iTunes, then you can share them that way quite quickly & easily. If they don’t (i.e. they are DivX or whatever, or you’re not using iTunes/Mac), but they do play in VLC, then you can use VLC to stream them from the host computer to the computer where you want to watch them. This how-to from MacDevCenter is aimed at transmitting a live HDTV stream from one machine to another, but it works with anything VLC can open.
stream-live-hdtv-from-your-mac (MacDevCenter)
This is better than sharing the network drive and opening the files that way, since there is a *lot* less overhead - i.e. a more stable video stream. Using the HTTP remote control, you can control the video stream arriving at your viewing machine.
Flying Google maps - a little ‘game’ which allows you to fly around Google Maps
http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html
Extra Big Desktops
More desktop space is the best productivity boost you can have - being able to have multiple windows open without having them overlap makes life a lot easier. Matrox have (and are releasing a new DVI enabled) box, which presents a single large screen to the OS, and deals with the splitting itself. It looks like a really neat piece of kit.. I could run 2 * 1920×1200 screens from a single MBP… There are dual head, and triple head options..
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/support/th2go/compatibility.php#mac
MacFUSE & sshfs. Ok - this allows you to mount up (and view in finder) those file systems which you would otherwise only be able to access via SSH (either via the command line, or via some SCP/SFTP capable client, like Cyberduck or Fugu). Now you can drag/drop files, and interact with those files as if they were on a mounted local network drive, or an external hard disk.
Not only that, but it’s fully accessible though the command line as well, since it’s available through /Volumes/.
(Via http://daringfireball.net/ )
The progress bar & window which you see when OS X starts up is nothing but a window popped up by the login window process starting, which it then promptly terminates once it’s ready for you to actually log in.
It’s all just smoke and mirrors!
You can start this process off for yourself (if you’re feeling nerdy and bored), following these simple instructions..
Various Antigua Pictures uploaded via Annas flickr stream
