the body of a very slow loop
I’ve wanted this for a while. I guess it’s new for Leopard.
To turn it on, run the following command and then restart Finder.
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
It’s not perfect. If the path exceeds the available space, an ellipsis is used — on the right, eww!
These have been bugging me for a while now:
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This program is available for podcasting at npr.org
My local NPR affiliate says this all the time, and it drives me nuts. I want to scream, “No! No! If it’s available you’ve already podcasted it!”
I came in to work this morning to discover that my machine had been rebooted overnight, undoubtedly to install some security update.
The IT department should just invade my home at night and erase my brain. I have no idea what the hell I was working on yesterday.
On plus side, Firefox helpfully restored my previous session of screwing off. So, yea, that’s going well.
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is next on my list of Wii Virtual Console games to download.
Just noticed that Gmail was updated. It’s way faster than the old version. Nice!
I just tried upgrade to Linux kernel 2.6.23.1 and failed boot with:
No setup signature found
I guess 2.6.23 uses new x86 setup code on i386, and this was incompatible with my current GRUB configuration. Specifically, the problem was that my “stage” files in /boot/grub were ancient (5 years old). Here’s the LKML thread where the solution was discovered.
I guess Debian doesn’t really upgrade the stage files automatically. This is a sensible “if it ain’t broke” policy, but in this case it screwed me.
Here’s what I did to fix things:
cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/*stage* /boot/grub
I also ran thru the GRUB setup process again just to be safe (but this is probably not required).
Wikipedia is a great source of beautiful desktop backgrounds. There are hundreds of high-res pictures, all IP-unencumbered in one way or another.
Check ‘em out: normal, widescreen.
I recently whipped up some scripts to grab the entire set of widescreen images and told OSX to randomly choose one every 30 minutes.
I just downgraded my access point from WPA2-PSK/CCMP+TKIP to WPA1-PSK/TKIP. This was the only way I could satisfy my MacBooks, PCI WiFi cards, and Airport Expresses. Grrr. I want my Saturday morning back.
If the best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from, the next best thing is that there are so many (incompatible) ways to implement whichever one you pick.
I’m a smug little prick. Here’s proof:
Kassidy:
My cooking class is tonight. Can you be home by 1800?
Mark:
18-12=6
OK. Yea, 6pm. I can do that.
Kassidy:
Learn the 24-hr clock. It’s superior.
Mark:
I disagree. I think the 24 hour clock falls short. We need a 168 hour clock. Why waste all this time saying “Wednesday at 1600″ when we could just say 8800?But really, why stop there? Lets just adopt the Unix standard of time since the Epoch. FYI, it’s currently 1193939547.
See you around 1193964747.
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