• Mac

    ASIP, Black Magic, Helpers and Time

    Recently, Brad Suinn from Apple took down his own personal .mac home pages where he has worked for quite a while, amassing info on the vagaries of ASIP and how to navigate its less than documented waters. It got me thinking about the passage of time, and what it means for Mac Managers. I emailed him when I saw something about it in the ASIP mailing list. I stay on the list, even though I’m working with and interested now in ASIP’s big brother, Mac OS X Server. He emailed back, and I won’t say what he said, since Apple is just this side of Big Brother, just that he…

  • movable type issues

    Done and done, MT appears to be alive and well on my server.

    After getting all the info for my installation together, I have to admit, things went very smoothly. I think its mostly because by 2003, most ISP’s have the basic setups in place to make MT work on their customers web space without too much hassle. A database with MYSQL, the latest PERL installed, inexpensive Unix hosting all made my installation a breeze. People reading this who are thinking of starting their own blog site or using movabletype for whatever purpose would do well to check out www.omnis.com, my provider. Hosting plans start at $1 a month, with features added ala carte. (hey mention my name, if you do.) So for…