Jonathan Rentzsch showed us the anti-caps lock bias of the new Apple aluminum keyboards. With the arrival of my new MacBook Pro today, I’ve observed the same bias with the built-in keyboard: the caps lock keys have to be pressed and held down to turn on caps lock, but will turn off caps lock with […]
Today marks the release of my first application for Mac OS X: CPU History. CPU History is a 10.5‑compatible shameless ripoff of Apple’s original CPU Monitor, which I used in 10.2 to 10.4, but stopped working in 10.5. CPU History is designed to do one thing, and do it well: graph your CPU usage history. […]
Toast 8, a CD/DVD burning utility for the Mac, introduced a new feature: when you add files to a data CD above what a single disc can hold, it offers to burn them onto separate discs. When I went to back up (and remove from my hard drive) about 40 GB of ripped DVDs, this […]
Inspired by warpedvisions: “It’s all geek to me.” (Dear reader: I’m sorry. It’s finals, and I’m scraping the barrel for something to post here. I swear, I’ll make it up to you after this is all done.)
We have our PHP error logging turned back to E_ERROR | E_PARSE_ERROR. Why, you ask, if it’s in the log, and it’s good to know what’s going on? Why, because if we turn on E_ALL, the logfile grows very fast (!) and the server goes down when it’s over 2 GB. *shakes head* WHAT?!? That’s the […]
Rixstep just published an article about why spatial file navigation doesn’t work in today’s file systems: there’s just too many files. And if you assume you’re trying to assign a unique location on screen to each folder, you’re absolutely right: you’d have to be insane. But navigating in (for the moment, we’ll use the OS […]
No thanks to @duncan, @gruber, and other Twitter miscreants, I’ve spent the last 15 minutes playing with Panic Sans, a modified version of DejaVu Sans, as a replacement to my Inconsolata. Panic Sans fixes the underscores and hyphens of DejaVu Sans. I’m going to try it for a day or two and see what I […]
A technology generalization, stemming from a Brijit article summary I just read. To be useful and successful, technology has to have access to content. Technology without content is useless: what’s an iPod without MP3s? A DVD player with no discs? A Wii with no games? This is especially important to new and emerging technology: without content […]
I’ve just spent the past two hours today, and two hours on Wednesday, hunting down a bug that popped up when we migrated PEAR database objects from DB to MDB2. Turns out, two single quote marks: ’ ’ in a select clause is completely fine with DB, but MDB2 won’t even parse an SQL statement […]
Fake Steve on Google’s OpenSocial project and handset alliance: Companies don’t form alliances and consortia when they’re winning. …Whenever you see companies start talking about being “open,” it means they’re getting their ass kicked. You think Google will be forming an OpenSearch alliance any time soon, to help also-rans in search get a share of […]
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