Category: Technology

When MovableType won’t recognize ImageMagick

Posted on August 8, 2004 by ellen

Recently my web-host restored the server I use after some problems which necessitated wiping it and starting from scratch. After doing this my installation of MovableType was no longer able to create thumbnails. The thumbnail option no longer appeared in the upload dialog. When I looked at the config file, all the thumbnail options were commented out – in other words it was defaulting to use ImageMagick.

If you read the verbiage in that file carefully, which I did not, it says:

Specifies the image toolkit used to create thumbnails from uploaded images.
# By default, the ImageMagick library and Image::Magick Perl module are used;
# if your system does not have these, you can use the NetPBM tools instead
# (assuming that your system has these tools installed). Possible values for
# this setting are "ImageMagick" or "NetPBM".
#
# ImageDriver NetPBM

Drupal: “Headers already sent” error

Posted on July 24, 2004 by ellen

When installing a new instance of drupal, I got the error “headers already sent.” I also got this same error a few weeks earlier when installing “Gallery” (Gallery website) In the case of Gallery, the

Avoiding serious hand problems from using the mouse

Posted on July 19, 2004 by ellen

Many of my graphic designer and computer geek friends have some form of carpal tunnel syndrome. Several have had operations, and some are nearly crippled. Women seem to be the most frequent sufferers, but I

Using Safari with Novell Groupwise WebAccess

Posted on July 13, 2004 by ellen

I use Novell’s Groupwise at work, and when out of the office often use their WebAccess. There is a problem with using Safari with Groupwise WebAccess where the key buttons that enable you to write

Mail.app won’t reply to some emails sent from aol.com

Posted on July 1, 2004 by ellen

The other day I received an email from an aol member. When I tried to reply to their note, I found that I couldn’t! Hitting the reply button or selecting “reply” from the menu did

Retrospect 5 for Mac won’t see files on Samba Shares in Panther

Posted on June 16, 2004 by ellen

Apparent solution: upgrade to Retrospect 6 – it sees the files again, but then I have been getting Assert Error 1582 on starting the backup. Looking at the Dantz Knowledgebase, it says to patch Retrospect

The Wacom Tablet and Fireworks MX 2004

Posted on June 8, 2004 by ellen

Macromedia vector applications- Fireworks and Freehand – all seem to share problems with the Wacom tablets and have for quite a while. It used to be that the problems with Freehand and Fireworks could be

Background-image style fails to display on Mac browsers

Posted on May 28, 2004 by ellen

If the background-image property you have set in a stylesheet displays on PC, but not on Mac, make sure you haven’t accidentally specified the height or width of the div without a unit designation (i.e.