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I’ve spent the last week trying to get a CodeWarrior project that uses PowerPlant converted to XCode. I finally got it working today! I used XCode’s importer, but I also had to make a few changes to the PowerPlant code as well as change some of my own headers.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “CodeWarrior to XCode”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/06/30/codewarrior-to-xcode/” [...]

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DirecTV sent someone else today and they were able to install it. The system works great, except they left an exposed junction box and some ugly exposed wire outside my building.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “DirecTV at last”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/06/28/directv-at-last/” });

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nancies.org:

DMB has been selling their albums digitally, through their website, as Windows Media files for some weeks now. For $10, any of their studio albums can be downloaded in this DRMed format, or at full CD quality for $13, one dollar less than getting the CD itself. Unlike most bands, however, their [...]

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I see someone’s still trying to hack MacMegasite. I love checking Drupal’s error log - any attempt shows up there. I just saw someone attempt to access admin.php attempting to add a new administrator. Of course it failed since I’m no longer running PHP-Nuke. Even though his attempts are futile, I’ve blocked his IP address.
I [...]

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I ordered DirecTV and made an appointment to have it installed today. When the guy got here, he told me it couldn’t be installed because there are too many trees and/or there was no place to mount it. They’re sending someone Monday for a second opinion. Several other buildings here have dishes, including one of [...]

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Phase two of the South Beach diet is very easy, although I’ve been going very slowly and only adding one new food a day and limiting carbs to only one or two meals. When I weighed myself this morning I was down to 180. I now have to lose only 5 more pounds.
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Orrin Hatch criminalizes the iPod: “With Orrin Hatch’s nation-destroying Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act headed for law, EFF has decided to create a real example of just what kind of “piracy” Hatch is targetting. Here’s EFF’s hypothetical complaint against Apple (for making the iPod) C|Net (for reviewing the iPod), and Toshiba (for supplying hard drives [...]

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When I converted MacMegasite to Drupal it broke all of the old article links. It seems that a lot of people were still using old URLs, probably from pages cached at search engines. The first thing I did was redirect article links, which was easy since the story IDs remained the same. The rule I [...]

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I just ordered 512M of RAM for my PowerBook G4. I find that with only 512M of RAM, it can get extremely slow when I’m compiling something big. Top shows only 5M of free memory when I have lots of stuff running. Unfortunately the current configuration is two 256M DIMMs, so I’ll only have 512M [...]

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Mattie Stepanek, the inspiring young poet & advocate for muscular dystrophy died today of the disease.
Mattie truly made the world a better place during his short life. Despite being confined to a wheelchair for much of his life, he maintained a positive attitude and wrote several books of inspirational poetry. He was MDA’s National Goodwill [...]

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DMB to Play Kerry Benefit: “Dave Matthews Band will be performing at a benefit for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, according to an announcement on the band’s website. The July 8th event, which fits nicely into the band’s schedule, will be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and will also [...]

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I just ran into classic TextEdit’s 32K limit. I just love MacOS 9
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Fun with MacOS 9″, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/06/22/fun-with-macos-9/” });

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From Sun-Sentinel:
Despite some residents’ doubts that the blighted district could ever become pedestrian friendly, they will soon be able to sip java at a new coffee shop called Culinary Delights, listen to live music at a soon-to-open restaurant called The Flomingo or walk on landscaped sidewalks recently installed along the Florida East Coast Railway.
“This is [...]

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I found that I could preserve direct article links from the old Nuke site when I converted to Drupal by adding the following rewrite rule to my .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=News&file=article&sid=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule modules.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Converting from PHP-Nuke to Drupal”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/06/20/converting-from-php-nuke-to-drupal/” });

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I’ve moved to Phase Two of the diet today. I had my first carbs for lunch today, a small chicken wrap from Roly Poly Sandwiches before I went to the movie. I didn’t realize everything wasn’t low carb until after I got it or I would have ordered low carb. After I ate it I [...]

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I’ve now switched MacMegasite to Drupal and everything seems to be working smoothly.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Successful Switch”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/06/19/successful-switch/” });

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I’ve thought about converting MacMegasite to Drupal and I’ve been working on the theme for a while. When MacMegasite got hacked today, I decided it’s finally time to dump Nuke and make the switch. I have a test site running on my home server and I’ve converted all of the users & stories to the [...]

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MacMegasite was hacked once again. I’m planning to convert it to Drupal this weekend.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Hacked Again”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/06/18/hacked-again/” });

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I installed Mozilla 1.7 final and used it for a few hours. It suddenly froze my machine completely - I couldn’t even SSH to it from another machine, so I did a hard reboot. The next time I ran Mozilla, all of my preferences were gone, including all of my email accounts, cookies & saved [...]

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I’ve now been on the diet for just over two weeks. This weekend I switch to phase two, which means I start introducing some healthy carbs. When I weighed myself this morning I was down to 183. I no longer even think about the diet; it’s become almost automatic. I’m back to my normal energy [...]

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