Interesting product from TypeEngine. Seems to follow on to what Marco Arment is doing with ‘The Magazine’.
Reminds me of WoodWing’s old tablet publishing product with the apps and Content Delivery Platform we used to have before the Adobe deal.
There’s definitely a market for these products.
See here.
Last night I finally got everything put together with the table saw. The output table set up, everything calibrated.
I then built the final thing that I needed to be able to start building cabinets…the cross-cut sled. These things are pretty easy to make. I ordered a couple of guides, cut a piece of wood and screwed them on.
Bingo. The last thing to do is square the fence to the blade. I used the 5-cut method and then the dial-in method.
Dead square.
Now I’m off to Europe for a couple of weeks and when I get back I’ll start putting cabinets together.
John Moltz over at ‘It’s a very nice web site’ comments his own Nexus 7:
It shouldn’t be that surprising that a $200 device isn’t built all that well. What should be surprising is analysts and pundits who automatically assume a low price means a winner.
Agreed.
Keep the link to his web site handy. Good stuff.
All about getting the Mars Rover ‘Curiosity’ onto the surface of the planet.
Amazing engineering.
Was upgrading one of my machines to the latest and greatest using MacPorts.
When I ran this command:
sudo port upgrade
I got this error:
Mac Ports upgrade error Can’t map the URL ‘file://.’ to a port description file (“Could not find Portfile in /”)
Odd. Hadn’t seen that one before.
A little digging around led to this solution. Run this command:
sudo port upgrade outdated
Problem solved!
Solr is a great tool when installed in conjunction with Enterprise. Lightning fast searching, facets…good stuff.
I’ve hand installed Solr and Tomcat for years. Every now and then however, SOMETHING happens that blows up the installation of Solr/Tomcat.
I finally got tired of fixing it and thought to myself “MacPorts has all the other stuff that I need. Why not Solr?”
Here’s how to install Solr using MacPorts
Install Solr
MacPorts will do its thing. Note that the ‘Jetty’ is being installed instead of Tomcat.
Install the new schema and server config files
Start Solr
Solr should start. To see if it is working navigate to this URL:
http://localhost:8983/solr/admin
Quitting Solr
In the Terminal window you started Solr in type ‘control-c’ where ‘control’ is the KEY on the keyboard and not the word.
Enterprise and Solr
Make sure to go into Enterprise’s ‘config_solr’ file and check the port that is entered at the top of the file. Make sure it matches the one that you are using with Solr.
If you have a pre-determined port you are using and the default doesn’t match the one you want to use then you’ll need to change the port that ‘Jetty’ is using.
Changing the Jetty Port
Navigate to this file:
/opt/local/share/java/apache-solr-3.6.2/example/etc/jetty.xml
Open the file in text editor
Search for ‘jetty.port’. This line should come up:
—
Name=”jetty.port” default=”8983″
—
Change the value of 8983 to the appropriate value
Save the file and restart Solr.
Saw a reference to this was posted over on ‘Daring Fireball’.
The headline is:
Apple brand less ‘inspiring’, survey says
The basic idea here is that ‘someone’ did a survey around the how ‘inspiring’ Apple is versus Samsung. The upshot is that Samsung is now as ‘equally’ inspiring as Apple. I question the whole idea of brands being ‘inspiring’ but I digress.
The survey itself was done by the ‘marketing communications’ holding company WPP. They then have a web site at http://www.culturaltraction.com.
WPP is employed by….Samsung. See here.
So, the BBC takes a marketing survey executed by WPP for Samsung and presents it as ‘Business News’.
How is this NEWS? Is ANYONE paying attention to ethics?
This is going to be fun. A long time ago I put together a golf tournament with some friends that we called the ‘Bud Light open’. It was a lot of fun…and just a tad crazy.
This will *probably* be a little more under control.
