Sign of a broken Mac

Today I’ve worked on getting an old iMac fucntional. My wife purchased it rather cheap ($25 at a garage sale). Perfect for those projects that need to be cross-platform since previously I had no Mac. There is only one problem: the MacOS install is totally borked!

Here’s the situation I found myself in. I need to perform testing in IE for MacOS (don’t ask!). To install IE 5 requires Stuffit Expander 5.5 or later (this is for MacOS 8.x). Ok, goto the Allume’s website, downlaod a version for MacOS 8.1. Umm, I don’t have a browser on my Mac, so I’ll download it on my Windows box, copy it to a CD and install it. That seems to work, until I double click the Stuffit file on the Mac.

Apparently to install Stuffit on Mac OS, you need to have Stuffit installed!

Thankfully a friend had a spare MacOS 8.5 isntall CD available. There are still problems, but I think I got stuffit installed now.

bBlog comment administration

I did it. As noted below I needed a way to mass delete comments in bBlog. After searching the bBlog forums, I could not find anything, thus I decided to see how difficult it would be.

The answer is: not very. A little editing and now I can mass delete or mass approve comments. Sharing is good, thus here is:

[edit May 27, 2005]
New version released. Fixed editing a comment. Added a dropdown to select number of comments to view
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[edit June 6, 2005]
Bad link. Fixed.
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