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Archive for the ‘geek’ Category.
when in xcode, you can start typing just about anything and hit escape or f5 to get it to give you a list of suggested things to automatically complete what you started typing.
Once you select one of the items in the list, hit control-/ to go forward, control-shift-/ to go backwards through the list of arguments… handy!
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Behold the Canon A620 - rechargeable double A battery powered 7.1 Megapixel, 640×480@30fps hotness.
Behold again, Kiahuna Plantation, Kaua’i, 15 second exposure, 10:38pm, pitch black of the night. Larger photo here. Full rez (2304×3072) is there too, I’ll leave it to you to figure out where… it’s a big file. It’s pretty awesome, though.
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aww, man, Maxtor sent me another one of the *exact same drive* as the one that catastrophically failed. 
Only this one’s a refurb. :( I think refurbs are ok for lots and lots of things… critical data storage not being one of them.
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Hey, I make and sell these patches, right here in campbell, California. You can buy one right now from my storefront on Etsy.com, or email me at steve at somejunkwelike dot com. Shipping discounts on bulk orders, and yes, I can put these on hats, bags, whatever… you front the cash, I’ll deliver the goods. 
Let’s do some business
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I found a place for AJAX at work! It’s so rad! :D It’s not in a customer-facing application, but where I was able to use it, it’s increased the speed of the app by about 300% or so. I’d love to show you! but, I probably shouldn’t. You can ask me about it in general terms, though!
The application feels more like a desktop app now.. and a lot less like a web app. This is very exciting stuff, I just needed to find a place for it. Now I can see lots of other places for it.
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I have some embroidery software that only runs in windows, which is lame, but.. I digress… I’m really not feelin’ it to go license windows, so I’m going to try to run a Linux, and then WINE to run the Win32 binaries. I’ve tried:
Slax is fast, supposedly has WINE preloaded, and has an installer. So far, so good. Mepis was fairly smooth as well, but, it couldn’t autoconfigure it’s networking junk… Knoppix seemed ok, but it was in german, and I couldn’t figure out how to load up the language module correctly. Debian was ok, but.. is minimal. I messed around with apt-get for a long long time, but, eventually, I’m finding that my life is too short to become an expert at an OS that I’m going to use to emulate an OS I don’t want to run. BeatrIX hung on the network configuration. Ubuntu had problems with the disk image not matching the MD5 hash…
Slax is running into problems with the installer. :( This is really bumming me out because Slax was really working well for me up until that point.. but, if I can’t install it on a hard drive document in Virtual PC, that means I can’t save anything, and I can’t stick any other CDs in the drive… which ain’t gonna cut it if I can’t load up my embroidery software… sigh.
Folks, this is why Linux isn’t winning on the desktop. It’s just too hard for a dumb schmoe like me to get it running as cleanly as mac os x.
In the new(er) versions of BBEdit, you can get really specific about what files to multi-file search through. I love this, check it out, you can include/exclude grep patterns.
I take advantage (?) of BBEdit’s auto-backup feature where it iterates a file name on the date with a version number so that you’re never overwriting your only copy. It saves the previous version as index-20050818-01.php or whatever. This is good. However, when you’re searching a directory for a criteria in the contents of your folder, this can _really_ bog down your time to completed search results.
If you create a criteria when you do a multi-file search with the following set up:
then it will skip over all of your backup files and only search the “live” or “non-backup” files. Extremely cool.
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Welp, I did my first useful thing with applescript today. I’m marking my calendar as a big day. It was "Connect to a remote server and specify a remote folder location", in addition to a script I located today to save email attachments from mail.app. Mail comes in with attachments, I have the script connect to the remote box, and save the files to a specific location. From there, I have other processes that tear the file apart, load it into a database, and do all kinds of other painfully band-aid-like-things that I probably wouldn’t need to do if we had any kind of common architecture, or… open systems. 
in case you’re curious:
mount volume "afp://my.server.com/Users" as user name "user" with password "pass"
And assume that everything’s case sensitive…
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boy, this is hackaday gone way too far.
Equipment being installed on front of existing bank card slot.
The equipment as it appears installed over the normal ATM bank slot.
The PIN reading camera being installed on the ATM is housed in an innocent looking leaflet enclosure.
you’d never know it’s there!
thanks, mom…
Thanks to the head geek over at economysizegeek.com, I can now post photos straight from my phone to my blogs using a plugin called “postie”. Thanks dude!
yeeeesh, waaay to accurate on that last sentence… well, I’m glad you’re reading!
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On 5/21/2005 I posted a couple of articles on timelapse movies I’d created. Phillip Torrone noted them in the make: blog shortly thereafter, and.. this is what happened to my traffic:
ok, now keep in mind, this traffic for the whole month, and I posted those articles at the end of the third week. This is what A-list mentions do: deliver a lot of traffic to you. If you’re new to my feed, welcome, I hope you continue to find something interesting occasionally.
Update : Somehow my links got posted around, apparently? Here’s the hit counter from the dotmac account:
I know nothing. I’m told nothing. I’m the last to find out. that being said… I’m having some ideas about automator.
I’m looking at automator. A simple interface for creating automated workflows. each block takes input from the block before it…
The problem here is that if you want to get the finder items, and ask for what you want the spotlight comments to be, you can’t. It just doesn’t work. Automator is one-dimensional. If the output from the previous block doesn’t match up to what the next block is expecting for input, you’re hosed. Consequently, you’re limited to some really basic actions.
I’m drooling over Quartz Composer. It’s ease of use is a real shock. You pretty much can’t break it, it just won’t connect the things you’re trying to connect if they don’t work the way you’re trying. It also allows you to do more sophisticated things… like flow input into an action from more than one source.
Hmm, two programs with drag and drop actions that control/give/take input from the user or other actions. One is one dimensional and inflexible (automator), the other takes a few more brain cells, but is infinitely more expandable and useful (quartz composer)… please oh please, tell me automator will get the same treatment as quartz composer… it’s so much nicer to work with.
Ok, I’ve upgraded to tiger server. Well, I had to erase-and-install to get it to work, and I haven’t gotten mail to work yet, but, the webserver’s running, php5 is rockin’, and mysql is loaded up… the rest.. I can deal with.
Well, today’s the day. I’m migrating from Jaguar server, skipping over panther, and going directly to Tiger. I’m worried mostly about the mysql migration… Ideally it’ll all just work out, but in reality, I know how this goes. Hopefully it’ll go differently than I think it will. The benefits far outweigh the hassle this server’s starting to give me, and I want all the new administration stuff, mostly the ACLs and better controls over the services…
anyway, the afternoon of sunday may 8th, this server’s going off line. Hopefully by the evening it’ll be back up and running.
