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 [...]
November 17th, 2008 | Posted in Fun, Personal, Site Stuff | No Comments
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 [...]
November 10th, 2008 | Posted in Howto, Linux, Tech | 4 Comments
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 [...]
November 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Howto, Ramblings, Software, Windows | 3 Comments
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 [...]
November 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Howto, Ramblings, Software, Tech, Windows | 1 Comment
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 [...]
November 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Howto, Linux, Ubuntu | No Comments
We recently had to setup Apache, Subversion and Trac all within a virtual hosting environment for one of our Clients to be able to develop easily and effictively among team members. They wanted to use multiple domain names for separate projects. Made sense to us, so we started looking for instructions on setting this up. [...]
November 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Howto, Linux, Tech, Ubuntu | No Comments