njr 3.0

...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 external USB or FireWire drives. It extends the standard driver behaviour by providing access to drive SMART data. The interface to SMART data is same as with ATA family driver, so m...

6:17 PM | Computing

…e(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 compilation and/or execution speed also improved dramatically, which is good to see. Second…

1:38 AM | PyCS

…n disappearing into a hole this weekend. Before I go… Inluminent and 347.com have been discussing Zoe and appear to be having similar reactions to mine. I gave Nat an introduction to Zoe last week and he was suitably impressed. Seriously, if you ever ask yourself “how do I find that email I got six months ago about subject X?”, feed your mail into Zoe. I still haven't had a chance to fix the serialization problem I got upgrading to Zoe 0.2.6;…

6:52 PM | Radio

…eblog 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 hosted. So, the radio.weblogs.com copy may go days befo…

11:41 PM | Radio

…Edit'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: Application TextEdit's creator is actually the same as SimpleText's creator. The code in question is in file.writeTextFile. Here's a fun experiment: [p1:26] ~%touch blah 12:33AM [p1:27] ~%SetFile…

11:35 PM | Radio