http://njr.sabi.net Nicholas Riley’s weblog Mon, 19 May 2008 00:46:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 19:00 = sabi [nicholas@arnold.sabi.net] quit (Quit: goodbye, arnold old friend.) [...] overlord% console arnold Enter njriley@console's password: [Enter `^Ec?' for help] arnold console login: nicholas Password: Last login: Sat May 17 22:24:06 from [...] {nicholas#console@arnold:1025} ~%sudo /usr/sbin/shutdown -i6 -g0 -y 7:21PM Shutdown started. Sun May 18 19:21:17 CDT 2008 Changing to ... http://njr.sabi.net/2008/05/18/goodbye-arnold/ Since releasing AntiRSI 1.4njr2 I’ve made a couple more minor releases. 1.4njr3, released on November 5, fixes some graphical rounding issues reported by Andy Reitz; the times were displayed as 3:01, 2:00, 2:59, etc. I was really surprised I never noticed this myself. 1.4njr4 shows the break window in all Spaces ... http://njr.sabi.net/2007/12/10/antirsi-14njr4/ Pester 1.1b5 is out. If you’re wondering where betas 1–4 went, they were released privately…in 2003. Looking back at my weblog posts from May 2003, I see my comment about my parents “finally finishing up renovations on their house in Boston”—four years later, they’re still living in a ... http://njr.sabi.net/2007/11/24/pester-11b5-released/ This weblog is now running on a brand new Joyent Shared Accelerator. It brings all kinds of great goodies such as OpenSolaris, ZFS, greater resource limits and newer versions of PHP and MySQL, but hopefully the average reader won’t notice any difference aside from pages rendering a bit faster. ... http://njr.sabi.net/2007/09/03/moved-servers/ Onne Gorter’s AntiRSI is a Mac OS X application which reminds you to take periodic breaks from typing. Along with my beloved IBM model M15 keyboard, it’s essential to my getting any work done at all. However, AntiRSI had some problems. The animated progress bar displayed during breaks sucked CPU ... http://njr.sabi.net/2007/08/10/antirsi-14njr2/ While taking a break to work on ICeCoffEE today, I discovered an annoying internationalization bug. First, some background. Since version 1.4, ICeCoffEE has let you hide items in contextual Services menus. Peter Hosey covers the feature nicely here. Service menu items can be localized, like almost everything else in Mac OS ... http://njr.sabi.net/2007/06/19/internationalization-services-and-icecoffee/ These days nearly 100% of my iPod listening is podcasts, and iTunes’ iPod-syncing podcast support is decent but lacking in a few areas. One issue that bugs me is that, after connecting my iPod, I must update podcasts then update the iPod again in order for the already-listened episodes to disappear ... http://njr.sabi.net/2007/03/04/an-applescript-to-update-podcasts-and-your-ipod/ This is the first new year I can remember that I haven't spent with family or friends; instead, I had a quiet night at home cooking Indian food and flailing at leftover crossword puzzles. 2007 is a year a lot of things will be changing for me, and I hereby resolve ... http://njr.sabi.net/2007/01/01/happy-new-year/ So Illinois is mandating carbon monoxide detector/alarms in residences as of January 1. Today I decided to buy one. I wanted to get a combination smoke/CO detector, that way I wouldn't need to change two batteries. Sounds easy, doesn't it? Let's see, this one is on clearance because its battery lasts ... http://njr.sabi.net/2006/12/26/buying-a-co-alarm/ The biggest day-to-day annoyances I've had since 10.0 have been, in descending order of irritation: Fonts: inconsistencies between rendering paths, bad support for bitmaps (I still can't use my favorite font in BBEdit), ATSServer hangs/crashes, silent refusal to activate, font cache corruption, worthless Font Book interface, etc. Disks/filesystems: HFS+ slowness, Spotlight flakiness. ... http://njr.sabi.net/2006/11/03/atsserver-really-really-really-sucks/