So I get my new Mac Mini, connect it, and launch the bundled copy of Quicken 2006. It asks me to personalize it with my name. Simple enough I think, but no. Believe it or not, it won’t accept “Elliotte Rusty Harold” as a name. It gets stuck right before the d. Seems it believes no name can be longer than 20 letters, and “Elliotte Rusty Harold” is 21.
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One of my absolute favorite things about Wikipedia is one of the most trivial. When I see a minor spelling error, typo, or grammatical mistake, I can just go right in and fix it. No registration, no e-mail, no nothing. I do wish I could do it inline without even loading a separate page, just like I might fix a typo in a Word document I had open. However Wikipedia’s the easiest I’ve seen.
To summarize what has gone before, I now have headless, network access to a Mac X86 Mini, and have successfully installed Apache 2.0.55. The next step is to install MySQL, PHP, and WordPress; then copy The Cafes and elharo.com from the old server to the Mini.
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To summarize what has gone before, I now have headless, network access to the mini, gcc installed, and have found my preferred set of Apache config options. For future reference they are:
Now let’s configure:
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My new Audubon Equinox HP 10×42 binoculars arrived yesterday so I took them to Prospect Park to try them out. I’m not sure if it was the new binoculars or the light or the unusual closeness of the cormorant, but for the first time I can remember, I noticed that the Double-crested Cormorant has green eyes.
The Mac Mini ships with both Apache, PHP, and MySQL preinstalled. However they’re relatively old versions, and I want something a little more up-to-date for this site. So the first step to migrating is to get the latest versions of those installed. Annoyingly, fink is not yet ready for Intel Macs; so that’s going to make everything quite a bit more complex.
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