Archive for February 2006
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Not sure that my land lord would be too impressed if I did that in my current house, not to mention that there is no suitable location really.
This year is has to be my digital camera. Since Christmas day I’ve taked 410 pictures (with a few videos), we haven’t had that many days since then!
I’ve posted the lastest ones in the gallery from my trip at the weekend.
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As most of my friends and family know by now I’m searching for a job. In the course of doing so I have looked at a great deal of job adverts from a range of companies, most of which require some kind of experience. Now how exactly are non experienced people expected to get experience when you need experience to get a job in the first place?
You may like to point out that many companies run Graduate Recruitment Programs where you work in a range or areas within the company, but look close and they still ask for some sort of experience.
See why this bugs me?
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The other thing that bugs me is the login systems that are in use today. To put it simply there is no single login system that just works. The only one that comes close, and it pains me to say this, is Microsoft with their Active Directory implementation. I know that at the heart of Active Directory it is actually LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), but does this mean I can use it with my non MS application and operating systems easily. No. Unix operating sytems have NIS, but this doesn’t have a reputation for ease of opperation (or security for that matter). Web applications don’t get away with it either. Try and set up a web site that runs two popular web applications. I bet that the two wont have a common login system, and I further bet that it wont be easy to get them to work together. PHP Users is a project set up to solve this problem, but no one seems to be getting ready to use it once it releases full release stage.
I await that day when I can install a program or operating system, and once told where it can athenticate I am able to login with the same username and password as all the other programs on that system. Or I may not need to login as it will pick up that I have authenticated, the so called Single Sign On. No messing about, just “Authenticate using ‘auth.exmaple.com’ ” and away we go.
From BBC News:
MPs have voted by huge margins to ban smoking from all pubs and private members’ clubs in England.
Before someone slates me for celebrating this I ask them to visit Dublin and go out for the evening.
In pretty much the same theme as the last post I upgraded to Gallery 2.0.2 this evening.
Version 2.x is a major rewrite from pretty much the ground up so it’s been a learing curve getting used to how things work in the new version, least of all hacking my own wishes into the code. I’ve not had to actually touch any of the code for these tweaks, I’ve been able to do it through the themes. A good sign of things to come I hope.
The one thing I can’t get to work is the “Currently listening to”, in other parts of the site this is done through a script which I include in the footer page. The footer page is then included in the other pages as needed. This hasn’t been possible now that Gallery is using Smarty to run the themes.
By the way, I include the script in to footer as the script sometimes pauses while it gets the details from another web site. Putting it in the header as I used to do causes the whole page to pause and sometimes time out. In the footer 90% (the important 90%) of the page loads before it stops, and then I just use a
to position it at the top of the page.
Given that it’s new and so very different I’m running Gallery and Gallery2 along side each other for a few weeks. Not expecting to be uploading many pictures so it shouldn’t be a problem having to upload twice for a short period.
