New Web Host

This site has been moved to a new web host. So far I'm pretty happy with them, and the nicest thing I can say about the old host, is nothing at all ( as in "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all" ).

As part of the move, the Products link no longer works. I never finished converting that one over to the new site layout, and I couldn't see bringing the old baggage over to the new host.

NetBSD day one

So I decided to experiment with NetBSD (i386, the 'stable' 3.1 version). So far... eh. Not that impressed, especially since I encountered two issues just trying to get it installed and bootable:

GCC tip: get a list of built-in macros

Apple's QA1424 has a quick tip to dump out all the predefined macros in the gcc compiler. I haven't tried it, but I suspect it works for all gcc's, not just the one on Mac. Here's the script:

gcc -arch ppc -dM -E - < /dev/null | sort

A good, free (for personal use) TCPDUMP for Windows

Hopefully none of you will ever need to run tcpdump on Windows, but if you do, I found one today that worked pretty well, at http://microolap.com/products/network/tcpdump

Drupal Tip: User Pictures in Forums Only

At http://drupal.org/node/127104 is a code snippet so that user pictures in Drupal only show up in the forums, not on other pages (ex: front page, books) where they might look out-of-place.

Briefly (in case the link dies), the trick is to edit your node.tpl.php to not display pictures at all (comment out/remove the print $picture part) yet keep it in your node-forum.tpl.php. This is assuming you have a node-forum.tpl.php, of course.