Author: Kupitero
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WordPress Without 3rd Party ‘Amps’ Installation – No MAMP, No AMPPS, No XAMPP, etc.
When my Mac Pro server’s HD crashed – and messed up my Movable Type database in the process – in 2012, I decided to get myself a backup server and that it was also time to take a closer look at WordPress and their claim to the famous “5-Minute Installation.” WordPress, Movable Type (then owned…
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The Mac Pro Dual Quad Server Crash of 2012
We were out when the crash happened. There was a brief power outage in our area while we’re away & saw the usual signs: flashing timer lights in our oven, audio amplifier, coffee maker and the Mac Pro server was off. The Power Macs had been hosting my website since 2004 as well as a…
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How to Insert Images in Movable Type 4.xx – The Easy Way
On Valentine’s Day of 2010, immediately after I ported my blogs from Movable Type v. 3.38 to v. 4.33, I made an entry that documented my key observations during the entire transition process. Although optional – but it will make your main blog page livelier – one of the most difficult tasks was how to insert…
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An Obsession: To Fly a Collective Pitch R/C Helicopter – in 3D
On February 9 of this year, I bought a remote-controlled micro helicopter, the Syma 107G, for $17 at a discount store near our house in one of the cities comprising the East Bay of California. I had so much fun flying this 7-1/4-inch-long toy which I had mastered in just a few minutes. And this…
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Notes on the Blackberry Playbook
Embed from Getty Images What separates the Blackberry PlayBook from Apple’s iPad and other Android-based tablets? The answer lies in the operating system. The PlayBook runs on QNX which is a true micro kernel operating system. Apple’s iPad runs on iOS which was derived from its core Mac OS X. OS X was basically Darwin – an open-source, POSIX-compliant OS which…