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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger DVD

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Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" is the fifth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Tiger was released to the public on April 29, 2005 as the successor to Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther", which was released 18 months earlier, and was superseded by Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" on October 26, 2007, after 30 months, making Mac OS X v10.4 the longest running version of the Mac OS X operating system. Some of the new features include a fast searching system called Spotlight, a new version of the Safari web browser, Dashboard, a new ‘Unified’ theme, and improved support for 64-bit addressing on Power Mac G5s. Mac OS X x10.4 "Tiger" was included with all new Macintosh computers, and was also available as an upgrade for existing Mac OS X users, or users of supported pre-Mac OS X systems.


Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger DVD

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The server edition, Mac OS X Server 10.4, was also available for some Macintosh product lines. Tiger is also the first version of any released Apple operating system to work on Apple-Intel architecture machines (Apple machines using x86 processors.) The Apple TV, as released in March 2007, ships with a customized version of Mac OS X v10.4 branded "Apple TV OS" that replaces the usual graphical user interface with an updated version of Front Row. Six weeks after its official release, Apple had delivered 2 million copies of Tiger, representing 16?% of all Mac OS X users. Apple claimed that Tiger was the most successful Apple OS release in the company’s history. At the World Wide Developers Conference on June 11, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that out of the 22 million OS X users, more than 67?% were using Tiger.
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Firefox Ad - Psychiatric

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on December 1, 2007
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We’ve all been there I’m sure. You start you computer up and wait for the pop ups to stop - but they never do. That is until Windows finally gives up and crashes. Well You don’t have to put up with it anymore. Theres this other browser called Firefox. It’s a browser that does not have all the security issues that Internet Explorer do and it’s free. There’s a 40% chance you’re already using it. Which leave a 60% chance that this video is for you.

Download Firefox, then delete the big blue E.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiZpA5OwtU[/youtube]

Firefox Ad - This is Hot

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on December 1, 2007
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Safari is the browser of choice on my Macs, however, I’m forced to use a few Windows PC’s and the occasional Linux machine as well. Internet Explorer is only used for testing purposes - You just never know how screwed up your hours of coding will look in on the big blue “e”. So on Linux and Windows I use as well as recommend Firefox - It’s fast, easy to use and it is a lot safer than any version of Internet Explorer. Continue reading ‘Firefox Ad - This is Hot’

Linux Apache MySQL PHP

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on November 23, 2007
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tux.pngThe acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free software / open-source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The original expansion is as follows:

  • Linux, referring to the operating system;
  • Apache, the Web server;
  • MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
  • PHP, the programming languages.

The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server infrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package.

I’ve made this small graphic (80×15 pixels) that you can use to designate your usage of this type of server. L.A.M.P.

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Malagent’s Domain Completed Redesigned - Again

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on November 21, 2007
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Never being completely content with the way things are, I’ve gone and changed Malagent’s Domain (malagent.com) once again. It’s not really a spur of the moment thing though, I’ve been testing several different Wordpress themes and finally decided on a (semi)permanent solution for several of my sites.itheme-snap.jpg

For many months the Malagent’s Domain used the very attractive and functional “iTheme” from N. Design Studios. Later this was replaced by the 3 column version “i3Theme” which was columnized by Mango Orange. Both versions are excellent themes and worked very well. I changed in order to take advantage of some AJAX features and also to increase CTR which seems to fall proportionally as the complexity of the site design increases. Continue reading ‘Malagent’s Domain Completed Redesigned - Again’

Problems with Vanilla 1.1.4

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on November 17, 2007
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Several attempts at installing Vanilla have all ended in disappointment.500-error-01.jpg As a platform for a forum community, Vanilla looks promising, however, the server gods have thus far prevented me from trying it out on my on server.

I could just use phpBB, but I am really sick of it - primarily the constant spam problems. So for the time being I suppose I will just do without a forum and rely upon the antiquated comments in the blogs for discussions.

This installation is on my shared hosting account at Hostgator. It appears the problem is that the built in file manager of cPanel does not tranfer the files correctly.

Resolved - I deleted everything and started over using an ftp client. In this case Fetch 5.3 on Mac OS X 10.5, now everything appears to be working well. The forums are available now and being tested at forum.malagent.com until I have a better use for them.

Playing around in Leopard Part 1

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on November 12, 2007
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I ran out and got Mac OS X Leopard just as soon as I could. I’ve been playing around and getting a feel for all the new goodness that Apple crams into the OS. This is just a little screen capture video of me playing with the Spaces feature with Quicktime playing several different videos throughout the different Spaces. Continue reading ‘Playing around in Leopard Part 1′

Javascript

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on November 1, 2007
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This is just a placeholder right now. Sorry for the lack of information available at this time.