Gary Haran.com

There is a movie the Magesterium doesn’t want you to see. It seems that the Vatican finds this fiction to be a threat to their fictitious story.

Earlier on we had seen the WWF President Catholic League president speak out against this movie saying that it was “pernicious people!”.

One has to wonder why Christians would feel so threathened by a fantasy fiction. You don’t need to go see the movie though you may miss out on something if you don’t.

The movie encourages everyone to question blank authority. It tells it’s protagonist that lying is immoral no matter what the reason is.

The Vatican and the Catholic league know that the evil Magesterium represents them. They’ve just proved it beyond any doubt.

Microsoft waited 6 years before upgrading Internet Explorer to version 7. This latest version is less then spectacular. It still ignores web standards yet because IE comes installed on most computers it still benefits from majority market share.

All other browsers are adding new features, fixes and enhancements at a much higher rate than is seen from Redmond. All other browsers can do things that Internet Explorer cannot do.

As a web developer I would love to bring a better internet to users. But I’ve spent roughly 80% of my time this year fighting Internet Explorer bugs. Internet Explorer cannot even reference an element on a page without doing something wrong so imagine how hard it is to provide users with a kick ass user interface.

I’m recommending that all web developers fight back in 2008. Microsoft has lied to us. This software giant only knows how to profit from desktop applications which is why it undermines the web in any way it can. We must break off Microsoft’s browser dominance and educate the world about the benefits of using a standard compliant browser.

All in our corners we’ll just be swimming against the current. We require a concerted effort to encourage Internet Explorer users into upgrading to compliant browsers. I’m not sure what the best strategy is but I know there is a profound desire for change from the web community.

Ideas that have been thrown around:

- adding standard compliant code on personal site/blogs that breaks internet explorer display
- use plenty of transparent PNGs in your user interface without adding extra filters
- add banners to our personal sites that only appear for IE users
- code your personal sites for Firefox and ignore IE users altogether
- add standard code to blogs and popular sites so that IE users cannot see the pages without breakage
- explicitly alert IE users that their browser sucks

Every web developer I’ve talked to said they’d be ready to add a banner to their personal blog that educates IE users about web standards. Could 2008 be the year we start doing this? Let’s get back our web.

My colleague has another installation instructions on OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

But for you lucky Leopard users here are a few easy steps you can take to install the RMagick Gem on OS X (Leopard).

Install developer tools

Leopard Install DVD > Optional Installs > Double Click ‘Optional Installs.mkpg’

If you do not install the developer tools you will not be able to continue.

Install Macports

http://darwinports.com/download/ > Double click ‘MacPorts-1.5.0.pkg’

Update Macports

Open a new terminal window.

$ sudo port -d selfupdate
Password:

Install Tiff Library And ImageMagick Executables

The tiff has to be installed with a special provision. If you just install as is you would get errors because of the OpenGL subsystem. So to avoid this problem you type in the same terminal window:

$ sudo port install tiff -macosx
Password:

Then:

$ sudo port install ImageMagick
Password:

And of course you may want to finish off with the rmagick gem itself!

$ sudo gem install rmagick
Password: