Finding (Steampunk) Stuff on eBay
Lizabeta tells us how she finds stuff on eBay, and while she gears it towards steampunk (which of course I love), her tips can be used to find just about anything.
http://steampunkbitz.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/steampunk_resources/
Learning About htaccess Files
Today I learned about the htaccess file. The htaccess file is used to override default configuration of a web server. For example, many web servers will have a default file or files set as to be displayed when typing in a folder path. Usually this default file list consists of something like “index.html,index.htm,index.shtml”. In other cases it may just be “index.htm”, or it may include a number of other files such as “index.php,index.asp,index.jsp” and could even contain “my_weird_file.my_weird_extension” if you really wanted.
The htaccess file is very very powerful. You can use it to redirect paths (perhaps if a file has moved), or if you want to change a hard to remember path into something a user might be able to remember easier.
Something to remember: a directory is affected by all of its parent directories’ htaccess files, not just its own. Order of effect is from its htaccess, up the path, towards /.
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Also, apparently either WordPress or Apache do not like you to literally type “(dot)htaccess”, where “(dot)” is a “.”. The error returned is not very useful either: “You do not have permission to access post.php”. Ah well, it’s a good security feature of one or the other I suppose.
Installed Lightbox2 and Search-Everything
I noticed that by adding tags to all the posts, that tags are not searchable by default in WordPress 2.5.1. I installed a plugin called Search-Everything to enable that as well as searching lots of other data. Seems to work fairly well.
I also installed Lightbox2. This gets the nifty animated larger versions of pictures when you click on them. Try it out on almost all the old posts (or the title image of this post). (Yes, I went back and updated all of them to work.) I really need to find a way to automate that better. It’s very repetitive blocks of text.
Tags: intartubes, lightbox2, plugins, search-everything
Tags!
Alright, so I went through all the old posts and added tags to them. Not really sure the value of this, but we’ll see. Going to make good on my promise for those retroposts. Honest! Just need to figure out where my muse is hiding.
Zomg HDTV.
I have finally leaped head first into the land of high definition. And by god is it beautiful. I got a Phillips 47PFL7403D/27. 120Mhz (or 2ms) refresh rate. 47 inches. Things look unnervingly smooth on the tv. Like pans and people’s motion. It’s really quite odd! I find my eyes now being more sensitive to people’s motion in real life, looking for how smooth real life really is compared to what the TV shows. Oh, and of course, being able to see everything in much more detail is great. Lines and edges are really smooth! Very happy with my purchase.
Tags: 47PFL7403D/27, hd, hdtv, hi-def, high definition, tv