njr 3.0

…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

…information about my account. It won't let me set up a Mac.com account on startup, so I enter info for another account. It complains it can't connect to the IMAP server. (But it works fine later). Complains it can't connect to the SMTP server, but doesn't let me set up authentication until later. I try to add my Mac.com account, and both accounts vanish from the Mailboxes drawer. Deleting prefs, try it again, same thing happen…

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

...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