Got a tentative go-ahead on two PhD thesis ideas from my advisor today. I'm still way off the mark as usual, but at least I know what to do to come up with a concrete problem to solve.
7:36 PM | WebDAV Test
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Finally realized what was using all the hard disk space I kept on losing, seemingly at random. Core files! In /private/cores on OS X:
[p2:6] /private/cores%ls -l total 311M -r-------- 1 root wheel 59M Mar 7 21:18 core.225 -r-------- 1 root wheel 69M Mar 6 23:20 core.226 -r-------- 1 root wheel 61M Mar 20 18:17 core.230 -r-------- 1 root wheel 68M Mar 11 17:13 core.239 -r-------- 1 root wheel 54M Mar 15 23:17 core.241
I have core files enabled because I sometimes need them for debugging, but thought my limiting coredumpsize to 0K was sufficient. However, when daemons (lookupd in the above cases) crash, they still dump core.
5:03 AM | Radio
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Iconfactory Design Sample: Even if you can't have PGP for Mac OS X, you can see its icons. (How sad considering certain people's commitment to its release).
4:57 AM | Radio
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iTunes 2.0.4 has improved AppleScript support. I hope it'll let me script uploading files to my MP3 player… that was one thing that didn't quite work in 2.0.3. Although, since I got a card reader, it's less important. Got to open it in Resorcerer again to add a command-\ shortcut for Zoom like I did for earlier versions—edit the çMNU resource ID 135 in the Localized.rsrc file for your language. The addition means I can zoom iTunes, switch songs and zoom back all with the keyboard. I also have F10/F11 bound (via Drop Drawers) to switch to the next and previous song or stream.
I'm making a concerted effort this week to move to Mozilla as my main Web browser. The inclusion of the download manager removes one significant beef I had with it, and the speed keeps improving all the time.
4:27 AM | Radio
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I'm back, and very exhausted—been writing code for my mom and I'm still not finished. I'll be taking a break.
Scott Collins is back. Neat. Mozilla is certainly getting a lot of much-needed cleanup for 1.0, though it still stinks in the UI department in general.
8:43 PM | Radio
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FireFly: The iPod's hard drive is down to $200. Perhaps an iPod price cut (or size increase) is in the works?
7:26 PM | Radio
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I'm off to spend some time with my family. In New Hampshire for a few days, then Boston for a few more. I'm not likely to post much until Sunday or Monday.
Have a good weekend, folks!
7:01 PM | Radio
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w3m-0.3 released: This news is a few weeks old, but I only got a chance to play with w3m's image support today. It's remarkably bug-free and predictable, although Web sites which refuse to load images can confuse it.
Using w3m with image and mouse support (the mousewheel even works!) in a rxvt window makes me realize how much I wish graphical web browsers supported its style of navigation - in particular, being able to scroll the page by line or page in both horizontal and vertical directions, and perform incremental search, all from the keyboard. Here's what it looks like:
2:08 AM | Radio
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I didn't realize someone had ported
Mac. I'll work on setting up audiocnoferencing when I go home
this week…
6:24 PM | Radio
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Mozilla 0.9.9 is out: last milestone before 1.0. Bug 120863 is the biggest crasher for me; it's nsbeta1-plussed so hopefully it'll be fixed before 1.0. And speed still needs a lot of improvement, but with the work on the Mach-O version on Mac OS X, as well as XP work, it's getting there.
1:30 AM | Radio
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