njr 3.0

...ices and command line tools. This involves using the Windows clipboard as there's no way via COM to extract RTF (or anything but text or XML) from Word on Windows. Right now, I only return either RTF or plain text, not both, based on whether you have styled your Word document at all; primarily this is so that all your Mac apps don't end up with unwanted 11 point Calibri text. Figuring out whether a Word document is styled was actually quite diffic...

10:34 PM | Computing, Dictation, macOS

…ss/index.php/feed/, and even displays a combination of the old and new feeds with appropriate site titles. NewsBlur displays an ! icon that, when clicked on, pops up a resolution interface with useful options. Clicking “Fetch Feed From Website”, as recommended, causes the feed to correctly change to http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/feed/, though I repeatedly saw hangs when clicking “Retry Fetching and Parsing”. Feed Wrangler did the right thi…

4:10 PM | Computing, Web

…vate' 2.42s user 1.25s system 62% cpu 5.864 total % time appswitch -i com.gnu.emacs appswitch -i com.gnu.emacs 0.01s user 0.07s system 13% cpu 0.602 total % time appswitch -a Emacs appswitch -a Emacs 0.00s user 0.05s system 29% cpu 0.169 total The -i flag is slowest because it needs to construct a CFBundle; fast matching occurs on application name, path, process ID and creator. (Process ID matching would be fastest if I directly converted to…

3:44 AM | Radio

…from a post I made to the Boston BBS. Well, I didn't have any comments on Apple's Mail app until earlier today, when Eudora started to crash on launch. So there's an attachment I need to download very badly, and because it's a Mac format file I can't just use a Unix mailer. Here was my experience with several OS X mailers. – Apple's Mail.app: Delete prefs from 10.0 when I used it last. Start it up. Enter information a…

12:38 AM | Radio

…blogs.com. Stage two is to replace all the internal links to radio.weblogs.com, stage three is to write an upstream driver that replaces each file on radio.weblogs.com with a redirect page pointing to the corresponding resource on web.sabi.net, and stage four is turning off upstreaming to UserLand. At least this way I can be sure that my Weblog updates without fuss. Of the last 18 upstreaming attempts in my events log, 12 of them failed. That&apos…

4:36 PM | Radio