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Read MoreIf not to make things simpler for you, then for the sheer delight of it, it's kind of fun to make your Windows PC look like a Mac. A full theme from FlyakiteOSX, sounds and all, makes it a breeze.
Want a Mac look on your Windows machine? Skins and themes would be nice, but there's more to that when you want to REALLY emulate a Mac OSX interface entirely. There are plenty of programs available to emulate specific features of OSX, e.g. Finder, icons, etc [example].
But Flyakite OSX is a project that's looking mature, and it comes with a very complete theme, including sounds and mouse cursors and Explorer customization, things you don't typically expect from a simple 'theme'.
The website goes for a Mac look itself, which is a bit painful, but it's worth the download.
Before you go for it, some caveats
- The performance of your machine in general may be affected, of course. Not too much though.
- The theme does fundamentally change some core files like Explorer.exe but (a) it makes a backup so you can go back with a simple uninstall, and (b) it doesn't screw up any additional functionality like my Groove button on my Explorer bar.
- I don't like shadows under my windows, but that seems to built-in in the skin.
- Some things like Windows Media Player will not change. WMP has its own skin, which remains untouched.
Uninstall or upgrade ASAP
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Read MoreCombination of Gmail's RSS reading functionality and Bit Torrent files available through RSS files. So you have no excuse now not to use all that gaping storage space in your Gmail account.
Read MoreLatest Cpanel updates are breaking Movable type installations, wreaking havoc with 500 Server Error messages and causing core dumps all over the place. Here's the kludgish workaround, that, well, works.
Latest Cpanel updates are breaking Movable type installations, wreaking havoc with 500 Server Error messages and causing core dumps all over the place. Here's the kludgish workaround, that, well, works.
A user on MT forums suggested that downgrading to DBD::Mysql 2.9007 should do the trick. It does. Six Apart seems to be aware of it.
Here's a little script for Cpanel/WHM users to execute on their SSH shells. Save it as, say, "dbidowngrade.sh" in your root folder, CHMOD it to 755, and execute it with "./dbidowngrade.sh" at the command prompt.
Important Note:
Yes, some people will have problems with Cpanel updating their DBD::Mysql with the /upcp script, in which case you should probably set up a cron job to execute the above script on a regular basis. I have it up as hourly and it takes just a few seconds. I have commented out the lines in green because you don't need to download the file from CPAN more than once.
Please remember, this is merely a temporary solution. Movable Type should of course have an update soon, and Cpanel should shortly start providing the 3.0001 version in the near future.
Update: July 8, 2005
The latest update of DBD::Mysql, 3.0001_3, works for me. So here's the new code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | #!/bin/sh cd /usr/src wget -O dbd.tar.gz "http_//search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CA/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-3.0001_3.tar.gz" gzip -cd dbd.tar.gz | tar xf - rm -rf dbd.tar.gz cd DBD-mysql-3.0001_3 perl Makefile.PL make make install |
Update: July 6, 2005
Looks like the DBD::Mysql author has released a 3.0001_2 developer update. I haven't been able to install it, it gives me a bunch of errors but that's par for the course from 'developer' versions of software. YMMV. I'll stick with the 2.9007 for now.
Original method: Downgrading surely works
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | #!/bin/sh #--------------------------------------------- # Script to downgrade to DBD::mysql 2.9007 #--------------------------------------------- cd /usr/src wget -O dbd.tar.gz "http_//www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/DBD-mysql-2.9007.tar.gz" gzip -cd dbd.tar.gz | tar xf - rm -rf dbd.tar.gz cd DBD-mysql-2.9007 perl Makefile.PL make make install # Clean up cd /usr/src rm -rf DBD-mysql-2.9007 |
Copy DVD Movie to DVDR, without copy protection rigmaroles.
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