Archive for July, 2008

Stormy Kaukapakapa July 30th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

Photos of the wet & wild winter rain!

Installing PHP5 and mySQL on Mac OSX Leopard July 26th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

A step-by-step Guide to installing PHP, mySQL and getting them both running together on Apples OSX Leopard. This requires root access and a little Terminal usage.

July rain brings no power. July 26th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

Its wet, cold and worst – there is No power. But thanks to an old UPS, I am online when there was nothing else to be doing.

Installing Windows in my PowerPC iBook running OSX Leopard July 23rd, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

Installing Windows on a Non-Intel Mac ? You can, and it is pretty easy thank you to Q, A Mac port to run virtual OS’s on your older mac. I now run Leopard 10.5.4 and Windows XP SP3 on my iBook G4.

Cyberduck to Transmit FTP July 20th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

With my favorite FTP Client, Cyberduck becoming unstable, I’m moving to Transmit. I am loyal to Cyberduck for it is a great application, but with its recent upgrade to version 3+ it has become incredibly unstable and frustrating. Transmit sure is different…

I love apple July 20th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

Mac fans are increasing, as they should! and man that makes me happy.

PHP Captcha Image Verification July 19th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

This CAPTCHA is a PHP script that protects websites against spam bots by dynamically generating a random string of text that humans can read but current computer programs cannot. For example, humans can read the randomized text as the one shown below, but automatic spam systems ca not read the random image text.

Linksys SPA942 IP Phone July 19th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

The wonders of VoIP and customizing the experience. How we can talk in New Zealand and the US on one phone and making that phone look the part. Can we make it sound cool?