Sunday, 24 March 2002
The big loser in Mac OS X is the file system fragility problem.
Thursday, 21 March 2002
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.
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Wednesday, 20 March 2002
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.
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).
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.
