njr 3.0

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.

11:03 PM | Radio
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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).

10:57 PM | Radio
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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.

10:27 PM | Radio
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I'm back, and very exhausted—been writing code for my mom and I'm still not finished. I'll be taking a break.

Scott Collins is back. Neat. Mozilla is certainly getting a lot of much-needed cleanup for 1.0, though it still stinks in the UI department in general.

2:43 PM | Radio
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FireFly: The iPod's hard drive is down to $200. Perhaps an iPod price cut (or size increase) is in the works?

1:26 PM | Radio
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