Brian Pane

This blog now allows readers to post comments if they authenticate via OpenID.

As described earlier, I tried the OpenID plugin for WordPress, but that plugin required a PHP extension not supported by my web hosting provider.

I subsequently found the WordPress RPX plugin that supports OpenID. RPX is an outsourced authentication service run by a [...]

I wanted to add OpenID support to my blog so that people could authenticate using their credentials from other sites (Yahoo and Google, for example) to post comments.

There is a plugin for WordPress that adds OpenID support. I downloaded it, installed it, and was soon up and running with a non-working OpenID implementation.

When I [...]

For a couple of years, I’ve used an HP all-in-one printer/scanner device. Up through OS X 10.5, HP provided a scanning application that made it reasonably easy to scan paper documents into multi-page PDFs. That application, however, stopped working under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

The good news

The printer support in 10.6 already includes [...]

I updated my computer to Mac OS 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) last week. It worked well. This afternoon, though, I tried to compile a C program for the first time in a long time.

-bash: gcc: command not found

Hmmm….that’s not good. I found gcc living under /Developer/usr/bin, but problems remained:

$ /Developer/usr/bin/gcc -O -o ~/stream [...]