njr 3.0

...-laptop Macs have included an iMac and three Mac minis, so I’ve become very familiar with external enclosures and drive docks. The state of the art in these devices is just bad, and has been for years. I’ve had more hardware failures, both of the drives and their enclosures, than with any other electronics product I’ve used in the past decade. Inevitably when I go to buy another enclosure, I end up spending hours digging through piles of unreliabl...

6:17 PM | Computing

…(launch -nc 'text'). And a type of '    ' (four spaces) is not the same as an empty type; however a type of '????' is. (See Apple's docs.) Jake seems to think it's TextEdit's creator, but it's not: [p2:3] ~%launch -f `launch -ni com.apple.textedit` 12:22AM /Applications/TextEdit.app: Mac OS X application package type: 'APPL' creator: 'ttxt' bundle ID: com.apple.TextEdit kind: A…

11:35 PM | Radio

…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 -….

12:45 AM | Radio

….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…

11:44 AM | PyCS

…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…

1:38 AM | PyCS