This evening, I finally found the time to write a small web application for the iPhone only to discover that the web server on my Mac was not working correctly. Every URL not returning a 404 in /~matt was returning a 403 Forbidden. After some searching and tinkering, I realized that my Apache configuration was not copied from Apache 1 to Apache 2 during the upgrade to Leopard. If you’re having this problem, you need to copy the files in /etc/httpd/users to /etc/apache2/users and restart the web server. If you made any changes, such as enabling PHP, to /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, you’ll need to make those changes in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, as well.
Today’s Rocketboom is brilliant. I think Andrew is doing a great job of handling the transition from Amanda to Joanne.
After reading the comments, it’s clear that there are a lot people who don’t agree. They’re trying to find any reason to proclaim the death of Rocketboom. In this case, it’s the degraded audio and video quality of this episode. Never mind the fact that it was intentional. (I’m guessing these people wouldn’t think much of Guided by Voices or Sebadoh, either. Their loss.)
This reminds me of the howls of the bad old Mac users when OS X first arrived. If it were up to them, we’d still be using that old, decrepit OS rather than the powerful, dependable OS everyone has grown to love. (Let me take this opportunity to blow my own horn. I loved OS X from the beginning. I started using it as my primary OS the day it came out.)
It appears that my battle to make the GUI version of Vim my default text editor in OS X has been won. Version 7 works perfectly. It also has a ton of new features that I haven’t had the chance to try out yet.
From a New York Times article about Boot Camp:
“Windows is a great operating system,” a Microsoft statement said. “We’re pleased that Apple customers are excited about running it, and that Apple is responding to meet the demand.”
They’re spinning this thing hard.
On Wedesday, Apple released the public beta of Boot Camp, which allows for the installation of Windows XP on Intel-based Macs. I think this is a very smart move. It seems like more Windows users are considering buying a Mac for their next computer. But they often don’t end up switching because critical business apps or games aren’t ported to OS X. Boot Camp removes this obstacle.
And when they see the blue screen of death (via TUAW), they won’t have to grin an bear it anymore. They can just boot into the more reliable OS on their machine. Eventually, some of them will just give Windows the boot.
By the way, does anyone else think that Apple meant the name “Boot Camp” to be more than just a semi-clever name? I can think of a couple hidden meanings that it might have.
Gmail Notifier for OS X, the one good Google desktop app for this OS, has been broken for almost two days. It’s definitely something wrong on Google’s end, yet there has been no acknowledgement of the problem.
At least I’ll have one less distraction in my life until they get things fixed. New mail notifications are attention magnets.
