Day to Day Log

The nice thing about working with a database is being able to fix things that have not quite worked right. Today's exercise was to get the protector package working fully again. It should allow me to write content that is private and I'm almost there. I can create pages like Index for private information which will take the casual viewer to the login page. I've almost got it working in that after a little tweek to the database the page is hidden. Now I just need to get it to a…

I've been spending a half hour clearing out the gmail account and moving things to local folders. As I was doing that a few old accounts popped up and I thought that is about time I tidied up and created a few links here. Having been working commercially with the Taig mills and other tools, 3D stuff is high on the list and in the past I have created accounts with several sites. Some are no longer active but this is what is left, but hese are the ones I still have ac…

A couple of weeks back some pages from The Engineer came up on eBay at was perhaps a little more than I would want to pay, even after being offered a 10% discount, but the quality looked quite good, and it was pages of an article on SS Tynwald, one of the Isle of Man ferries and so of interest to my library of information. Since paying for them I have now found a free source of the same pages via the Internet Archive, and have s…

What I nice start to the morning! Last night the stumbling block was the old copy of PHP pear bundled in the util package. I screwed up a little trying to install the latest version, and in hindsight it was probably already installed via the tumbleweed repository. I currently have a second copy and have managed to download all the pear packages that Bitweaver uses (so far as I've tested) and have updated it in the util folder. It threw up a few more Bitweaver plug-ins and templates that neede…

Was it really 14 years ago I last posted to the Mozilla forums? Anyway, just done a new feature request which does explain the situation nicely. Although another nice to have did pop up and there may be an answer to that one. Rather than thunderbird creating it's own browser page, could it not switch to Firefox which has all the account passwords. Not something I use often and email links do go direct to Firefox so per…