Technology
Well, I just found myself taking notes from a 12-year-old developer...
03- 03- 2008
Spartanburg, S.C. – The Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of South Carolina Upstate will continue its monthly nonprofit information lunch series “Friday Focus” with guest speaker Nick Catto on March 21 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at USC Upstate’s Community Outreach and Education Center, 325 S. Church St. in Spartanburg. Catto will discuss how nonprofits can utilize the Web to reach constituents, donors, volunteers and other audiences in a cost-effective yet polished manner.
Finally, Microsoft has made steps to make testing IE6 and IE7 easier for Windows users. Previously, you had to pay for an additional Windows license to legally run both versions of IE for testing purposes. Now Microsoft is making available free Windows XP/IE6 images available for VirtualPC (also free as MS is competing with VMWare). This means that you can run IE6 in a virtual machine while running IE7 on your host machine. The drawback is that the download is set to expire April 2007 ... although we are promised new versions will be released. What Microsoft doesn't mention is that Virtual PC also runs on Windows 2000 (and IE7 doesn't). Therefore it's possible to install this Windows XP VPC image on your Win2k machine. You can then update IE6 on the XP image to IE7, testing IE7 without upgrading from Win2k. This is all-around excellent news for web developers.
I've been running Ubuntu for around a year now, since Breezy Badger, and while a lot of things are self explanatory, I have had troubles with seemingly simple tasks such as DVD playback, CD burning, and installing support for my dual monitors.
This wiki guide I found on Digg is meant to be an all in one guide for the newly released Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft.
I felt tempted to write a blog today and I'll even make it useful. After reading an article about setting up a Windows-based Apache server, I've decided that this will be a good starting point for hosting my own website. I have been aware of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python/Perl) for a while now, but I just found out that there is also a WAMP stack....basically this means that I don't have to wait to master Linux in order to run Apache. Apache is an open-source alternative to Windows IIS and will allow me to host a website for free. Seeing as I have an extra Windows box at my house, I hope to get my new web server installed within the next couple days courtesy of the Apache Friends Project and their XAMPP.
I am now done with my Xbox....whew! I bought this one over the summer and am just now getting around to modding it. Talk about total neglect of priorities. Its a limited edition import from Japan so with any luck, it may be worth something someday, but its a nice piece of eye candy for now. Other than the stencil and leds, it also has a 160gig harddrive with over 14,000 games, Xbox Media Center, and a Dvd burner. Click on images to enlarge.
