Naughton’s Nonsense

I just want to wish my niece Rebekah a big

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I finally got everything working on my computer. I was wrong, I did noy have quartz extreme enabled. However by enabling it all my problems went away. YEAH!

On another note I have spent the last couple of hours trying to get my blog formatted using css and I can only get chimera/mozilla to render it correctly. So I am either really screwing up my css or every other browser is broken. I think it is probably a little of both.

Well for you people who don’t know the story, I was one of the numerous people who upgraded to 10.2 when it was released. I currently have it running on 3 machines, my work computer, my desktop and my laptop. Of the three the G3 at work and the G3 laptop run it wonderfully, however my frankenstien 8600/300 upgraded to a G4/450 with a gig of ram, a sonnet ATA100 card with a 120 gig IBM Deskstar drive seems a little quirky, go figure. Apparently the Ultratek100.kext file that Apple wrote for 10.2 does not like 3rd party ATA cards. So after much frustration random crashes and the like 10.2.1 was released. Sonnet did not release any updates hoping the fix would come with 10.2.1, unfortunately it did not. So they have started development on a fix. So I continue to have screen lockups and unable to restart or cold start into 10 without jumping through numerous hoops, the least of which requires me to power all the way down, startup into 9, run norton utilities on my 10 drive, open startup disk and select the 10 boot folder, shutdown, then start up and pray for a miracle. Well recently somebody came up with a risky fix, I was up for anything at this point. The fix was quite simple, delete the Apple ultratek100.kext file. His reasoning was this, since 10 is unix based you should not need a kext file for ata hardware, it should be built into the kernal. So without much care I deleted the file rebooted and voila the startup issue is gone. I can cold start restart and crash and start or any other combo you can think of without any problems. Yeah, you say, uh-uh. I discovered I have a new problem, I cannot go to multimedia rich sites, such as the ones my daughter likes to use, and I cannot use Word, without my computer screen locking. I currently have Quartz Extreme and Silk enabled, I am going to try and disable them and once again pray that it will fix my woes. I will let you all know.

Thanks to a good friend the development/cleaning up/hacking of my site has been put on hold while I determine how to proceed. About a year or so ago during my first attempt at a web site he convinced me to use html tables to format my site and css just for minor formatting such as text and the like. He then took me to amazon.com to prove his point, by showing me how browsers that were css enabled and not both loaded the page the same. He has since taken that back stating he still used tables for formatting but this on effects about 10% of the browsers out there, and after messing around with css foormatting he prefers the way it looks. So now I have to decide to continue down the path I have started or to scrap everything and start over. Thanx a lot man.

Oh and by the way I really dig the bookmarklets that Basil/Tim came up with. I do have a request on that line, can you make one that I can enter a name and have it search the oca website for that saint?

Well this is as far as I am going to get tonight. I realize that it is not much, but hey I’m a novice and this is what you are getting. I want to thank Chris Davis for his welcome to blogging post. But alas it is late and I am tired of thinking. Oh and by the way if you were thinking of going to cnaughton.com, please don’t because it is in huge need of being erased and completely redone. Instead try this wonderful link which I got from the illustrious Wil Wheaton.

Welcome to my blog. Well now that I have this installed I am late for work. I will continue formatting to my tastes as time allows. So for now enjoy my nonsense.