http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

Alan Turing is considered to be the father of modern computer science.  Turing is also partly responsible for designing the “bombe,” a machine used to crack the German Enigma machine yielding invaluable German military Intelligence to the Allied forces.

Unfortunately, instead of being revered by his government for his services rendered, he was criminally prosecuted for being a homosexual because homosexuality was illegal in Great Britain in 1952.  Having seen the end of his career and having undergone the subsequent drug treatment administered by the government to cure his homosexuality, he committed suicide via a cyanide induced apple.

Since then, the scientific community has embraced his achievements and ignored his lifestyle decision (as they should).  With great pleasure, I have stumbled upon an online petition urging the British PM to apologize to Alan Turing.  It is shame that only British citizens can sign it.  This petition can be found:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/

For more information about Alan Turing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Lastly, what would this be without a plug for gay rights in today’s society:

http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/index.html

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/

It is no surprise that the most popular pages are adult websites.

Click here

I Installed Leopard without any problems…until I tried to login.  For some odd reason, Leopard decided it could not recognize or repair my damaged FileVault protected home folder.  FileVault encrypts my home directory.  You can turn on FileVault under System Preferences -> Security.  Of course it was not damaged before I tried installing Leopard.  Leopard either has some compatibility issues with Tiger’s FileVault, or it damaged some of my files.  Whatever the reason, I can’t login.

So the only solutions are to:

• Login as another user, impossible for me considering I don’t have any other user accounts.  Of course google produces terminal commands to make new users.
• Clean install and use a backup.  Nice, but only good if you create frequent backups (and you should!)
• Use another Mac or HD to copy your files.

So obviously, I recommend creating a backup before installing Leopard and turning off FileVault, if you can.  The only problem with doing that is the space requirement.  FileVault requires a large chunk of HD space to unload.  At the time, I probably couldn’t have because we all know how large the Macbook HDs are

Of course this isn’t the first time Leopard installs have caused fits.  The first day it was released, many users reported their machines hanging.

Spoke to a Mac guy about the situation and he says not to use FileVault unless one works for the CIA.  Sensationalizing, sure, but I would add, don’t use it because it causes problems.

I did fix this problem.  I used the third method with an external HD.  Put the Leopard CD into your Mac.  Plugin your external HD.  Install Leopard on your external HD.  You may have to format the HD into a special format, GUID.  Click HERE to learn how to do that.  Install Leopard, and let it restart.  It reboots to the new install on the external HD.

Login into your new OS install, and you should be able to see your old HD mounted.  Click on it, and browse to Users/Your_account and you should see a Yourname.sparseimage.  Drag that to your external HD.  Click on it, and it should ask you for a password.  Enter your account password and ignore the warnings.  Now you should be able to recover your files.  Just be sure you locate any and all important program files HERE for a link that has information about how to track down application files.  It’s about uninstalling applications but it yields information about how application data is stored on your machine by OS X.

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Hmm, I guess that’s okay…

But I don’t see myself as a “blogger” LOL!  In fact, I don’t even like the word

Those little web icons are called FavIcons (Favorite icons) and their file type is .ico. (Where have I been lol!?) To utilize them, you must create a small image of the .ico format. You can do this using some picture editors or you can go HERE and do it for free.  I did the latter.  After your icon is created, upload it to the root directory of your website but some have reported it is to be placed in the /images directory.

Then place this in your html header:

The second line is optional pending if you decide on using the animated gif given by the free generator.  Be sure to upload both files if you intend on doing that.

To see the results, you may have to do one or more of the following:

1. Refresh.

2. Bookmark your page.

3. Clear your cache.