I’m just wondering when Apple will be shipping the SDK for the ipod touch/iphone. Just being nosey really. I’ve veered away from jailbreaking it simply because I don’t want to end up with an expensive brick next firmware update.
They say February, but of course remembering that the Leopard launch being the end of the month it could be anywhere up to the 29th.
Another thing I’d like to see is the UI guidelines. I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to reading design guidelines, simply because there are a lot of good points in them. Mind yo, you should not be slavishly obeying them, as, after all, they are only guidelines, and not commandments.
On guidelines, I’m get miffed with applications that require the use of the mouse to accomplish things. Vista’s keyboard usable everywhere is a charm to use, even while it’s gobbling up all those cpu and disk resources with the indexer.
Two fricking DVDs? come on!
I’ve heard of large asset caches, but two fricking DVDs worth of game? that’s just ridiculous. I had to do some serious housekeeping on the machine to get that amount of space back. I really need to do something about my serious lack of space on the box at the moment.
Internets help me!
Stolen from SVGL
I enjoy reading SVGL, and the current article is no exception. Considering that I went and pre-ordered Devil May Cry 4, when I read this it made me almost want to cancel the pre-order (not!).
Devil May Cry 4 also has a part where these evil naked snow chicks make out with each other and kiss each other all over. Okay, okay, that was kind of awesome. But I also sternly raised my eyebrows! I did!
typedef long time_t;
There isn’t a lot of time before this evil, evil signed long value goes negative. It should make a good retirement gift for us; Kind of like the Y2K problem. Of course this issue goes away almost immediately when you start working on LP64 programming environments.
Grumbling about determining a particular time zone’s offset from UTC without actually setting the value. There doesn’t seem to be much in the lines of determining this without significant programmatic interference.
Wandering to Cork for the afternoon
I am wandering to Cork for the afternoon and some of the evening. It’s the standard Warpcon weekend, but I find myself unable to go for all of it. I will be driving down this afternoon and driving back this evening. I think it will keep me sane… I don’t think I could deal with my usual level of excess on that weekend.
Damnable laptop audio
Back in the land of the perpetual beep again. Forgot to blacklist the pcspkr driver again. It beeps something horribly when ever there’s an error condition. I should make someone else suffer from this.
Samba, passwords, permissions and leopard
Sometimes when people are using old painful versions of samba you can’t use the encrypted passwords to talk to the remote server. You just get a complaint that the password is incorrect all the time, even though you keep typing the damned thing in correctly.
What you need in this case is an nsmb.conf file in ~/Library/Preferences/. It needs to contain a stanza:
[host you care about] minauth=none
For every host that is not using high-falluting authentication. It would be better to not use a default entry here, as we want to ensure that the default attempt is not to try with unencrypted communications.
Time to get dlna working on the mybook
Well, I have a dlna server running on my little always-on laptop. Now I just need to get something similar on the worldbook, removing the need to have the laptop always on.
Updating Ubuntu over ssh can be dangerous
Setting up network-manager (0.6.5-0ubuntu16.7.10.0) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf ... Auto interfaces found: lo eth1 eth2 ath0 wlan0 iface to disable = eth1 iface to disable = eth2 iface to disable = ath0 iface to disable = wlan0 Disabling interface: eth1 ... done. Disabling interface: eth2 ... done. Disabling interface: ath0 ... done. Disabling interface: wlan0 ... done. * Reloading system message bus config... ...done. * Restarting network connection manager NetworkManager
And that’s all it wrote. I do not like NetworkManager – it is a piece of crap
I’m back and working again (web-wise)
My old hosting provider downgraded me to an older operating system and facility so I’ve just made the leap to another provider.
I will not be recommending the old hosting provider any more.
hosting has been changed to fix the willing