Can't hear the orchestra. You're talking too loud. NPR's Performance Today, one of the programs I had never heard before moving to Illinois, is being gutted. WILL-FM plays classical music all day, for the most part good classical music, and for that I am very grateful, and hopeful that it will continue.
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Hey, when did that happen? Key Caps in OS X now will show your typing in other applications. It used not to do that.
Answer: It's still broken, it was just some weird window activation problem (of the sort I see about 100 times a day on OS X, sigh) that caused it to work for a few minutes.
Running out of space on your OS X root partition and don't know where it went? Get WhatSize. It's a one-trick application, sorting your files by size, but it works wonderfully.
Among the space-hogging items it found for me were Magic Mouse Discus, bundled with Toast 5, with installs almost 200 MB of graphics; and Maya, which installs 50 MB of files in /Library/Application Support/AliasWavefront (even though the application installed on another disk). Now I'm back up to 425 MB free.
Not much worth blogging recently in my life: car washed and vacuumed, taxes ready to go off tomorrow, head down in preparation for meeting with advisor on Wednesday.
Since my parents' last phone is dying, I spent a while last night looking through cordless phone/answerers, always an interesting sojourn into the inanity of consumer electronics (yes, Uniden, with 45 models of cordless phones, I'm talking to you). Here's what I picked out:
This phone supports up to 4 handsets (you can use them to do a conference call or for intercom). It is about $125 with one handset, or $150 with two handsets (VTech 2460). An additional handset is $60 otherwise, which makes the two-handset thing a good deal… It has very good sound quality, lightweight handset, answering machine, headset jack, includes a spare battery charger, and has a speakerphone on the handset.
More info here; buy it with one handset, two handsets.
This phone only supports 1 handset (Uniden makes more expensive phones, but they only support up to 2). It looks like a 2.4 GHz version of my phone, but with a smaller handset. It has a speakerphone in the base, but no battery backup so if the power goes out, you lose your messages. It's $80.
Retrospect was crashing a lot; I think it's an extension conflict. I wish OS X would run on Elmyra or I'd switch it in a nanosecond.
SpamAssassin wasn't working for my father, it turned out it was because his shell was set to /bin/false and it didn't want to create a user config (~/.spamassassin) for him. Fixed now.
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