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Font looks Arabic in Apple Mail or Safari?

1 Comment Published by Ben Wann October 5th, 2007 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology, Mac OSX

Hey these guys found out why having certain installed fonts can screw up your fonts.
Check it Solution at Creative Techs

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Diskwarrior = My New Best Friend

1 Comment Published by Ben Wann October 2nd, 2007 in Craziness, Nerd, Technology, rants, How-To, Mac OSX

So the Saga of the Coffee + Laptop continued today.
Upon the Computer gaining its heartbeat back, I quickly realized that there were sections of my Hard Drive that had mysteriously disappeared!
So here are the bits of intelligence that I can share with the world.
Long ago, when I first bought my 15″ Powerbook, the Logic Unit […]

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Coffee + Apple Powerbook 17″ G4 = 6 Hours Laptop Surgery

2 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 2nd, 2007 in Craziness, St.Louis, Nerd, Mac OSX

If you spend as much time on your computer as I do, you start to take concern for its well being. Most of the time this involves doing regular backups (Not the best at that), running software updates to protect your sweet lappy, and just being generally careful around your expensive equipment. Last […]

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PHP Extensions XML_RPC + mbstring != Compilation Happiness

1 Comment Published by Ben Wann October 31st, 2006 in Craziness, Nerd, Technology, PHP, Mac OSX

If the title of this blog post doesn’t explain it enough here it is.
This evening, well early morning, I was trying to get XML_RPC to install as the native extension. I had previously install PHP 5.1.6 with the mbstring extension enabled to make a pesky phpMyAdmin error about it go away.
Well this time it caught […]

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Stray Notes » Blog Archive » Running Kcachegrind on Mac OSX 10.4

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 26th, 2006 in Nerd, Technology, rants, How-To, PHP, Mac OSX

I posted earlier on how to Get Rich with PHP5.
In that article Rasmus Lerdorf writes about how to use a certain set of debugging tools as well as PECL packages and database modifications to really tweak some serious speed out of your PHP web application.
I use a powerbook G4 for my PHP hackery, so some […]

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