njr 3.0

…en unloading and reloading the KEXT and running vpnclient as root fixes the problem, and I have to reboot. That usually takes about a week. I guess that qualifies as an improvement over the VPN5000 client, which would cause repeated kernel panics. Of course, OpenVPN’s kernel component doesn’t crash at all, it works wonderfully, requires next to no setup, and I never have to touch it. The coming 2.0 version will make it possible for multiple users…

11:44 AM | PyCS

…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

…and improved my wordpress plugin that does syntax highlighting using the php library geshi and geshi supports both ApplesScript and Objective-C, I haven’t tested it with Wordpress 2.0 but my plugin is only about 40 lines of php probably easily fixable if broken. Download: http://www.indyjt.com/software/synthihol/SyntHihol.zip See it in action (AppleScript): http://www.indyjt.com/blog/index.php?s=klingon Nicholas Riley Thanks. It’s OK – taking a s…

7:46 AM | Computing, macOS, Web

...s deprecated by Apple as of OSX 10.9, you may want to check out the implementation here. (https://github.com/jontaylor/DDC-CI-Tools-for-OS-X) It has no deprecated component. Compiles fine once the SDK is changed. PPS. Hats off to any MD/PhD. As my son is part of the same program you graduated from....

11:07 AM | Computing, macOS

…ely the realm of folklore, mailing lists and Web sites such as macosxhints.com. I haven't seen the book mentioned elsewhere, but on the basis of the sample Directory Services chapter, I'll be picking up a copy. If you're still opening Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to view PDFs in OS X, the new PDF Browser Plugin should be your next download. It's tiny (46K), because it just uses OS X's native PDF rendering. It exhibits a f…

3:52 PM | Radio