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The desk

Here’s my desk in a blurry as hell photo. Enjoy.  

New World Record for Sending Camera to Atmosphere? The Great Balloon Chase sends camera up 37.28KM.

A buddy of mine helped to send a camera up this weekend in the Great Balloon Chase. Pretty neat stuff. They may have even beaten a world record, how cool is that. From the Home Page An excellent mission where almost everything went right! The prep, launch event, flight and chase could not have gone [...]

Getting Sendmail to work with Rogers and Smarthost settings

I didn’t do this myself so I can’t vouch for it, but there was a recent discussion on one of the mailing lists I’m on about getting Sendmail to work with Rogers Smarthost settings. Apparently this howto: http://www.newthink.net/2007/05/18/smarthost-authentication-with-sendmail/ Will get you going, but there is one critical change you must make as determined by the [...]

Illustrator or Photoshop “Unknown Error” when saving or can’t use type tool. Fixed!

No thanks to Adobe, even after numerous complaints going all the way back to Creative Suite 1, if you have a bad font on your system, you may have issues saving as an .ai in Illustrator. You’ll get the dreaded “an unknown error has occured”. If you disable PDF compatibility, it will save, but that’s [...]

The Gimp is better than Photoshop when it comes to Arabic or other Right to Left typefaces.

Recently we had to do some work in Arabic for a client of ours. We had never used Arabic in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator before. So when the client asked “you can do Arabic” the response was “oh yeah of course” without giving it a second thought. Windows supports Arabic, so in turn Adobe [...]

Installing Custom Themes with Trac 10.x. Beautify your Development and set yourself Apart.

Ever wanted to install a new theme to your TRAC installation? Often we’ll want our development environments to look a little different from every other trac site on the Internet. We’d never tried to change the theme before, so decided to write a small tutorial on how it’s done for our archiving purposes, and for [...]