Just an entry to remind myself of the new MT Style Generator to use for whenever I get around to upgrading to MT 3.2.
Accessibility and the WWW
Looks like my next project (whether I want to do it or not) is to work on making our department websites accessible by everyone. Something called Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The hospital is also going with W3C‘s Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
It doesn’t look like it will be too bad. I think I should be able to accomodate the requirements with a few style sheet and template changes without too much pain. I suppose I should go ahead and run it all through the Validator while I’m at it.
Need more power Scotty!
Wow, I remember when 350 W power supplies were beefy. 450-550 W supplies are pretty normal now. Here comes Enermax with a 1000 W power supply! And it draws some serious power too at 1400 W and almost 12 A. An ordinary 10A circuit isn’t going to cut it with this puppy. You’d have to run a 20A circuit just to provide power for this thing.
I suppose it would be useful in a big server chassis where you need to power lots of drives and/or CPUs. I bet it would be fun to have a box that would require one of these…
Found at Slashdot rewop
I need a bigger computer
I’ve been wanting to add some USB 2.0 ports to my desktop for quite a while now, and after saving up some hard earned allowance money I picked up an IOGear 5 port USB PCI card from Amazon.com. Go to stick it in the computer, and thanks to the extra-wide graphics card, I discover there’s no more room for another card. There’s still an available PCI slot, but it’s rendered unusable by the graphics card.
Crap. That means I have to take something out. There’s the modem, but that’s got to stay (at least until I decide I want to shell out for broadband). Soundcard…well I’d like to keep that around. IDE controller…got the big hard drive attached to that, so it has to stay. That leaves the video capture card. Since I have no TV/VCR/DVD to feed into the card yet, it’s not doing much at the moment. Sucks to lose the Firewire port on it though, but it’s the most expendable card right now so out it comes.
9 USB ports on board (4 USB 1.0, 4 USB 2.0, 1 internal USB 2.0) should give me plenty of expansion room for now I figure.
Next on my upgrade wish list is one of these and maybe some RDRAM. That should keep my system usable for a few more years.
Sneak peeks at MT 3.2
The MT folks are teasing us with snippets about the latest features in MT 3.2. Tantalizing stuff starting with a new admin interface, feedback ratings a la SpamAssassin (for dealing with crap and spam) and a junk folder for holding said crap and spam (like in Eudora).
With 29 more to go in their Favourite 32 list, I can’t wait to see what else is in store for this newest release.