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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...

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…

…sh they wouldn't use Web Crossing for their forums—its interface is so cumbersome and outmoded. Although, if they turned on the Web Crossing NNTP gateway it would help!…

…into HTML entities. If you are subscribing to this Weblog via its RSS feed, please change the URL from http:\//radio.weblogs.com/0100148/rss.xml to http:\//web.sabi.net/log/rss.xml. Yes, I realize none of the automatic links point there yet, but they will when I figure out how to do so. For months, I've been having issues upstreaming to UserLand's server, but I can much more reliably rsync to my account at pair, where web.sabi.net is ho…

…! 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.”…

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