No responses yet from testers. Anyone else want to test? You just need Mac OS X 10.1.2, email me if you want a copy of ICeCoffEE to test.
I'm going to take a look at WebDAV upstreaming in Radio again for the next couple of hours. (Oh, I bought Radio today, so this site isn't going away. Thanks UserLand.)
The new version of Coela, a Mac OS X filesystem browser, is looking nice. I especially like the ability to customize the font. (Hello, Apple, everyone doesn't have a gigantic screen, and even people like me with 1600×1200 displays don't want a gigantic font!)
So does SNAX, but SNAX is Cocoa, more full-featured and a bit slower.
AuthSample:
Apple's preferred method of launching tools with superuser permissions
on Mac OS X. It raises some good points, but also demonstrates
extremely user-hostile behavior by installing a setuid root tool
inside the application package, meaning that copying the application
would give you a choice between not working or breaking the
functionality. In a comment in the code they suggest that you prompt
the user for reinstallation at this point. Hello?! I don't want to
have to reinstall software because I decide to copy it around on my
hard drive.!
There are better ways. For example, the setuid root tool could be set
up in a temporary directory. Or the application could include a
non-setuid copy somewhere else, and reinstall it within its app
package if it is missing.
Security is important, but so is usability. One should not
necessarily come at the expense of the other.
I've been in e-mail limbo for a few days now, checking mail on my
pair.com account because the machine on my desk I usually read mail
from is having NFS problems and won't let me log in. I haven't been
at school enough to get someone to look at it, so I'm compiling Mutt
and Fetchmail (and their dependencies) on a Sun machine to use
temporarily. It's taken an hour so far.
This whole compilation thing is too freakin' hard and complex. Thank
goodness for Encap, a university-developed, minimally invasive
packaging tool that I use to keep my own installed software organized,
but I'd like to be able to get source management too. So if I've got
Mutt installed for IRIX, I can just point to it and say “I want that
for Solaris too”.
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