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People from the Mexican village of Almoloya del Río have made what they hope is the world’s longest pair of trousers in an effort to boost the local textiles industry, which has been badly affected by the global recession.
Forty-four people and almost two kilometres of fabric were needed to make the 60 metre long trousers.
Not quite what the world needs but impressively silly nonetheless.
Bruce Keogh has been working hard for 3 months or more converting his entire site to the Wordpress format.
Benalla Online is a local news/directory that grew from a few pages in html to now an extensive database of local interest.
This site is perhaps the most recent we have built that suits the Wordpress structure perfectly.
Finally time for the Premiere release of Sarah Watts new film “My Year Without Sex”
Petrina did the graphic design for the graphic slides that appear throughout the film. Much stuffing around with dog biscuits and the like in the photographic studio for quite a few weeks but the result was worth it.
If you haven’t seen it yet book now and get along for a delightful story set in the West of Melbourne.
Read a review online at The Age.
Or get online to visit the official site.
After a few years on an old html site James at Sound Acoustics has embraced WordPress as a Content Management System for his business.
Sound Acoustics designs, tests, maufactures and sells a range of acousctic foam panels for recording studios and home theatre rooms. This site has a Twitter Feed, Flickr link, and a shopping cart using code supplied by WP-Ecommerce.
Good luck James and get the blog going… at soundacoustics.com.au
In a recent firmware upgrade for all Netgear ReadyNAS units a simple interface for configuring for network Time Machine backup under Mac OS X 10.5 has been revealed. Untill now only a complex 15 step solution was available for this unit.
Many had opted for the Apple Time Capsule solution for network backups.
This is great news for those with plenty of room on their ReadyNAS and a small number of Macs to backup.
To use the system simply reboot your ReadyNAS and it will have the firmware upgrade done with a page available with set up instructions.
New site with photography by Phil and web by Big Trousers.
Ray Pereira, Leo Dale and Doug DeVries take the passion and poetry of Brazilian guitar, add a whole truckload of percussion from West Africa and throw in some cool grooves from French heist movies. The music is composed, yet improvised. It may sound like Jazz to you, but then again!
It’s got a hell of a groove and it sure sounds sweet.
Features downloadable music sales and video all as content managed backend.
Get online and take a squizz, louieprez.com
Prime Minister Rudd today announced a 43 Billion Dollar investment in a new broadband network for Australia. Due to economic conditions and the lack of private sector involvement, the Australian government is to become the major shareholder in a new company charged with the job of building a new broadband infrastructure.
This is great news for small business as most struggle with outmoded, expensive and unreliable internet connection in the current forms widely available. As businesses move to provide online services and conect with customers and suppliers through these services as a way of streamlining their business practice a reliable connection at high speed is becoming essential. Content managed web sites alone cause small business in rural areas extreme problems.
Also with private homes also benefiting from increased access to high speed broadband, the ability for business to allow customer access to media, services and general web content will be greatly improved.
Business will also find more capacity to allow employees to work from locations remote to the central office arrangement thus giving greater work flexibility. An improved environmental outcome is also a possible upside to high speed access.
Unlike the Opposition leader who thinks data connection is about wireless laptops accessing the internet, I believe data via optic fibre to houses and businesses is the way of the future. As devices in the home become data connected a local wireless network connected to a fibre modem will make more sense. Stationary devices like display screens for film and television, bedside radios with internet radio, weather, and daylight savings time server services are all do-able. Imaging your washing machine connecting to a service agent to ask for repairs, on it’s own. What if your car could “talk” to service computers online everytime it was parked in tha garage? The internet is about to become means of communication for all our technology and a hardwired network is the place to start that revolution.
So after 5 days or so of ongoing sales spam the guys at Instinct have released a fix.
Good to hear.
Here is a full list of changes:
Download now and upgrade your installation
From the 22nd of March wp-eCommerce plugin installations have been attacked by some zombie robot attack. The attack bombs an account with hundreds of false purchase’s with no product listed and $0.00 sale price.
Not a huge dilemma in a security sense but the false entries would take a user all day to delete through the backend.
We are looking at deletion through the database just to clean things up but we will wait till the version 3.6.11 proves not vulnerable to such attacks.
Here’s hoping..
New site up and ready to go at Glenlink.
Glenroy Neighbourhood Learning Centre is an adult and community education organisation and neighbourhood house. As a not for profit, community owned and managed organisation, they offer many life long learning courses and activities at affordable prices. They are also committed to working with local people to improve community wellbeing. Take a look at Glenlink and see how Wordpress is setup to work for them.
New website for Jos Van Hulsen Post Industrial Design.
Just the beginning with a few articles and biographical information. Soon to include an online shop for small sculptural items.
Over the past few months of testing various models of Billion routers, updated firmware and configuration we have a working solution.
Back to my Mac is a technology in Mac OSX Leopard that allows the user to connect to every Mac they are in control of over internet connection regardless of where they are. Each computer shows in the finder as it would if sharing is enabled on computers on the same local network. Employing only Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) enabled on a Billion 5200 modem router we were able to successfully screen share and access files from outside our office network both on known and open WIFI access.
It seems that not all Billion routers have this ability regardless of the fact that UPnP is available in most of the routers we tested. The difference seems to be the ability to allow an external application to make changes to the port mapping within the router.
Back to my Mac requires a .mac or mobile@me account. All Macs you wish to access should be configured using the same account. Secure connection data is stored and configured via the connection to this service. Since we use mobile@me to access common data for address books and iCal info across all Macs and iPhones, taking advantage of Back to my Mac seemed obvious. Despite having access to other services like Hamachi and Real VNC for over the internet sharing and control we have concentrated on Back to my Mac given that it requires little user knowledge once set.
Importantly there should only be one device acting as a router and for most home and small office networks we take a look at, there are two at times both acting as a DHCP server. This is mainly due to a later inclusion of a wireless access point, a network retrofit very common these days. In the case of Back to my Mac and other more complex network access applications, one of these routers should be bridged or configured so that does not assign IP addresses for the network.
Importantly when all else fails a quick flick off and on of Back to my Mac in System Prefs is all that was required to get the 5200 working correctly. Given the fact that the Billion 5200 is a domestic grade modem we were surprised by this result and also a little disappointed. The quality of the router is not quite up to spec for our requirements generally as it is a little less than stable in a network of 5 to 10 computers, printers and phones. Generally we would advise an industrial grade Billion router for this task. It is relevant to address the fact that enabling UPnP is not advisable under some circumstances and is not encouraged by the Windows security fraternity. It may also be argued that a more advanced system be used on Macintosh networks also and indeed there is a solution.
Back to my Mac can also employ NAT-PMP, a possibly more secure method of network manipulation. None of the routers we used had this capacity however. Apple Airport devices have the ability to use this technology in a network but we were hard pressed to get any ADSL modem router we tested to bridge successfully and allow the Apple device complete control of the network.
Testing will continue with hardware available in Australia to find the best means of making Back to my Mac usable under all circumstances but in the meantime there seems to be some hope for a small investment.
Recently released backup software in Apple’s new OS 10.5 Leopard, Time Machine has been found to proove invaluable when a full restore is required.
A customer rang last week saying their MacBook Pro had been damaged in a “drinking” accident and along with screen damage the hard drive may have been rendered unbootable. Some fluid damage to the internal electronics may also have occurred. A new MacBook Pro was ordered and whilst setting up the new Mac we connected the external hard drive that contained the Time Machine back up. The client had done what we instructed and dutifully connected the back up drive every week or so in order to let Time Machine do it’s thing. It keeps a complete backup of everything, even keeps copies of deleted files.
Still unaware of the value of Time Machine when the check box appeared “set up new Mac from Time Machine archive”, the box was ticked and it ran for 45 min. It sucked back from the external drive all the users files, configurations, accounts, applications, preferences, in fact everything so that the result was a perfect copy of the Mac just as it had been prior to the accident. All applications worked and remained registered.
Not only that but Time Machine made available all files deleted going back to the beginning of time for the old Mac.
Now while a new MacBook Pro cost a reasonable amount, the additional cost saved by not losing files and time taken to rebuild amounted to a whole heap more.
It also looks like a great way to get from one model to the next when upgrading hardware. The new Mac will not only have everything appear the same but all deleted files are there as well. It also saves the hassle of that import folder in Mail. At Big Trousers we will be recommending a Time Machine backup for all Macs from now on.
New site for Chris this week at Artistic Reflections Pty Ltd. Chris has a growing picture framing factory and specialises is multi opening photo frames.
The new site has an online shop, CMS DIY newsletter and is all built on WordPress and CMS newsletter function enabled.
If you are wanting build anything substantial in the inner West you will need to be aware of the floaters.
Just under the surface of the Western suburbs acid clay lurks a menace, floating rocks the size of Volkswagons that make for unstable footing under older houses. Larger developments like the 3 storey apartments next door require removal of these rocks so that excavation can proceed. They are clawed out then broken up prior to removal.
Below a pile nearly all broken up from a small area to begin the process.
