njr 3.0

Wow, when did color laser printers become so cheap? I still had an outdated notion in my head that they cost around $5000 still. Take Minolta QMS's magicolor 2210: 128 MB RAM, 200 MHz R5000 processor, 20 ppm B&W/5 ppm color, 100 Mbps ethernet, PostScript 3, $1640. Sounds great, but a review mentioned: “Text prints are crisp and have no jaggedness, but color graphics appear washed out and fuzzy.”

I hope it's more reliable and bulletproof than the many QMS printers we have had in our department. From the high-volume black & white laser printers to the color lasers, they jammed constantly, and refused to process PostScript jobs that HP printers had no problems with.

2:42 AM | Radio
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<UncleJed> So what is included in the new Developer Tools?
<UncleJed> I know it has betas of the new stuff, but is the release stuff
           still there as well?
<sabi> yes
<sabi> and ASS 1.1 is GM
<sabi> as is AS 1.8.2
<UncleJed> So is there any harm in me upgrading? 
<sabi> IB 2.2.1 is final, too.
<sabi> not really.
<RealCmdr> ASS?
<UncleJed> or are there even new versions of the other release stuff?
<sabi> ThreadViewer and Sampler are revised too
<UncleJed> Anal Stimulation Studio
<sabi> yup. :)
<sabi> worst. acronym. ever.
<CmdrKuehn> that's why mac developers are so happy
<CmdrKuehn> visual studio needs that.

2:49 PM | Radio
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Simone got back to me again and RssDistiller is all fixed up; my CocoaDev feed should now work for others. Just update your copy of RssDistiller.root before trying it.

I'm going to have my head down on a interesting project (which I can't talk about :) this weekend, so I will have to put off more work on my rendering scripts.

Marc Barrot seems to be going along well incorporating activeRenderer into a Tool, so I think I'll wait until he's got something releasable so I can build upon his work further and not further sully toDo.root with non-to-do functionality...

10:56 PM | Radio
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Did you know you could auto-fill an empty form field in Mozilla by double-clicking it? I certainly didn't. How useful! (And how undocumented!)

10:41 PM | Radio
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I fixed a couple of problems with the CocoaDev RSS feed (broken URLs and ordering) today. Simone Bettini of eVectors responded to me very quickly regarding my bug fix in RssDistiller, but unfortunately he didn't fix the bug quite properly for my scripts to work.

In searching the Web to see if Simone had a home page or Weblog I could link to (he doesn't), I discovered Simone had been working on a WebDAV client tool for Radio! I didn't know about it! I can't believe we never crossed paths before, as I would have really liked to have seen his work before I started working on the WebDAV upstream driver. Oh well.

Once the remaining problem in RssDistiller is fixed, you can have your very own CocoaDev feed by installing my distiller into Radio, and the RssDistiller feed directly into RssDistiller itself through the Web interface.

2:24 AM | Radio
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