Pixel Chimp's blog

An explaination of one way to resolve an issue with an Aluminum Apple 23 inch cinema display (circa. 2005-2006) suffering from a 'short - long - short' flashing power light & no visible display. This solution worked for me, it may not work for you, but others have reported similar sucesses, see the forum posts in the links for more info.

I have made a simple script to take the locally defined hosts & import them into a Windows virtual machine running on VirtualBox.

It means local testing domains defined in your Macs /etc/hosts file can be viewed from the Windows environment, combined with xdissent's ievms script it makes handling virtual machines a simple process.

Notes.

The script creates a batch file & then runs it inside the VM. The VM requires the virtualbox guest additions. Read more »

Here is a quick reference post showing the basic structure of the Zen 2 Drupal theme, see the Zen project page for the source, and the project help.

Large version of the layout image. Read more »

Snow Leopard ships with the latest version of PHP, version 5.3. Unfortunately Drupal 6 will produce error notices due to the use of deprecated functions. It seems the solution is to 'hack Drupal core' or use an older version of PHP. It seems likely that Drupal 5 won't be updated to support PHP 5.3. Read more »

Here is a quick list of links to forum posts that are from people having issues with failing G5 Power Macs. 

Apple discussions

• PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz freezes any time, boots sometimes with one processor (very long thread)
• Solutions for dead G5

Macworld.com

• Power Mac G5 logic board failure? (very long thread)

  Read more »

Well I thought I had lots to say, but I guess I don't. So add this site to the list of neglected blogs. 

In the meantime here is an example of the nice touches Apple go to with their software, the icon for TextEdit. Going the extra mile is usually worth it.

Here is the data from the dead mac list. It's hosted on Google Docs
You can view in various formats - Read more »

A note to people using Git on Mac OSX. There are some new softwares appearing for browsing Git repositories in similar ways to gitk. Two I'm playing with are Gitnub and GitX both are more 'mac like' than gitk (wish shell) and have nice appearance and install very easily. They also have shortcuts to open them up from Terminal when you are within a repository.

Worth checking out for version control, SCM, whatever you want to call it.

This is an AppleScript application to remove certain invisible files from a disk. The main purpose is for cleaning up certain 'meta' files the Mac Finder creates on volumes. The invisible files can be annoying when the disk is used with other operating systems that will show the items. This AppleScript droplet is useful for cleaning memory sticks for cameras, PSP's, mobile phones, USB thumb drives etc. Read more »