Author Archives: OtherMachines

In my case, well over an hour. I had about 20 or so .htm files I needed renaming as .php and I couldn’t be bothered to change them all by hand. I have a computer, right? I know a bit … Continue reading →

In a, frankly rare, moment of solipsism, I googled myself and discovered that there was a settler in a place called Southold in colonial New York called Giles Booth. (There was also an Obadiah Booth and a Mehitophel Booth too … Continue reading →

As a youth I think it’s fair to say I didn’t get out much. I used to spend Sunday mornings listening to short wave radio, mainly for short-wave pirates and English-language programmes from stations like Radio Netherlands. But occasionally I’d … Continue reading →

I gave up trying to get my Motorola C350 to work with iSync in Tiger – I thought I could do a different version of the same hack I’d done in Panther, but it just wouldn’t work. This was quite … Continue reading →

Boris and I were chatting in the park about Shynola’s wonderful video for Move Your Feet, and naturally when I got home I wanted to download it. But lo! QuickTime 7.0.1 says you need to upgrade to QT Pro for … Continue reading →

I was looking around for some VERY simple PHP code that would allow me to edit a text file on a web server. I came across this code, but for the life of me couldn’t get it to work. It … Continue reading →

I finally upgraded to Panther (Apple MacOS 10.3) on my 500 mHz iBook, and aside from the disappointment of not getting the funky Quantel-esque graphic show in Fast User Switching, all seemed well. That was until I turned WEP encryption … Continue reading →