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External enclosure woes

...substantially cheaper, I guess, or maybe there'll be a yet to-be-introduced killer app. Von Even though I haven't had one of my drives yet I've helped a couple of people that have. I've found this extension to be entertaining even if I hope it doesn't become lifesaving. https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver Von Follow up on my last comment, this is from the 'Read Me' file for the extension itself. "This is a kernel driver for Mac OS X...

…! Definite bug. According to the File Extension Guidelines (which I don't 100% agree with, but…) Radio is best off setting the file type to 'TEXT', but setting no creator, instead of its own. “Applications that are not a primary editor for documents of a given type should not set a creator code for those documents.”…

…launch 1.0b1 released. Several convenience features are new in this version: launch “slack” URLs (launch -l web.sabi.net), and email addresses without the mailto: (launch -l someone\@somewhere.com). launch can now accept piped input as the bbedit tool does. launch represents standard input by the single dash (-): the equivalent of ls -l | bbedit is ls -l | launch -i com.barebones.bbedit -….

HTML problem solved; Cisco VPN client ranting

….vpn Password: kextunload: unload id com.cisco.driver.vpn succeeded (any personalities also unloaded) % sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/CiscoVPN.kext kextload: notice: extension /System/Library/Extensions/CiscoVPN.kext has debug properties set kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/CiscoVPN.kext loaded successfully % vpnclient connect DCSnet-wireless fread: Unknown error: 0 Cannot secure command line arguments. % sudo vpnclient connect DCSn…

appswitch 1.0.1 and OS X speed improvements

…my launch program, with the following results. Times are in seconds, as measured with time(1): Mac OS X 10.2.4 10.3.3 appswitch -a Emacs 0.355 0.054 appswitch -i com.gnu.Emacs 0.381 0.063 launch -a Emacs n/a 0.085 open -a Emacs 0.842 0.876 osascript -e ‘tell app “Emacs” to activate’ 2.361 0.949 First, everything except open is a lot faster under Panther, especially appswitch and launch (for which I made essentially no code changes). AppleScript co…

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