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2006-02-14
If it isn't enough I have my own website and blog (well, sort of), I had to go and sign up for a free Wiki at PBwiki. I couldn't resist. It was so easy to sign up for, I just had to give it a try. I'm glad I did. It's super simple to use and has wonderful potential for sharing information. If you've ever wondered that the heck a Wiki is and how to use it, here's your chance. I kind of envision my Wiki as a semi-personal place to jot down some thoughts, favorite sites, to-do lists, and what not. My wife is actually interested, too, now that I've showed her how easy it is to add content. So, anyway, I'm psyched! Now I have two sites to rarely update!
10:08 PM
2006-02-12
Every now and then I get motivated to update my math web site in a major way. In 2003, I moved it over to PostNuke. In 2004, I added a phpBB bulletin board. This year I undertook the challenge of providing users the ability to use LaTeX to post math equations in the forum. I thought this would be extradorinarily difficult, but fortunately I was wrong. With the help of mimeTeX and LatexRender, I was able to make the necessary modifications to my forum in a matter of hours. And if I hadn't been such a dumb-ass, it would've been a matter of minutes. I spent almost all of my time trying to figure out why mimeTeX wouldn't work, when in the wee morning hours I realized I had installed the windows version on my unix web server. Yeah, um......that doesn't work.
3:59 PM
2006-02-04
My very generous sister-in-law gave my kids a used G3 iMac for Christmas. The kids immediately took to it because of the games. However, I was more interested in getting it on the Internet. I recently started subscribing to DSL, and received a 4 port wireless router/modem when I signed up. So my first thought was to find a wireless USB adapter. After a couple of trips to the store and some googling, I realized that was a dicey proposition at best. Fortunately my soon-to-be brother-in-law did some searching, too, and found this thread at the macosxhints.com. The fourth post mentions the brilliant solution of using an ethernet bridge. So I headed to Best Buy and bought a Netgear XE102. Wow. Good advice. I can't believe how easy it was to install. No drivers, no installation, no manuals, nothing. Plugged one unit into the wall and connected it my modem. Plugged the other into the wall near the iMac and connected it to the ethernet port. Done.
7:03 PM
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