Posted in Computing on May 15th, 2003 3 Comments »
Lesson learned today: Photoshop is a pain in the ass when you've got only a trackpad. Years ago I used a trackball to limit my RSI, and using Photoshop with that was tough enough. Only a mouse (or maybe a graphics tablet) provides the fine-tuned cursor-movin' abilities I need. The trackpad is either too sensitive […]
Posted in Computing on May 13th, 2003 5 Comments »
MPT has long hated Yes/No dialogs, and I must throw my hat in the ring. On the Mac, developers typically do a good job of applying the HIGs (which, in part, state that you should use a verb for button titles). Entourage, it seems, doesn't: This is the worst dialog box I've seen in a […]
Posted in Computing on May 10th, 2003 3 Comments »
My first ever entry was called I Hate Perl. I don't really hate Perl, but man, sometimes I'm just not a big fan. The CLI is fun and fine and all, but today I installed Perl 5.8.0 to try to get Time::HiRes (it worked of course, MTTimer needed it). Of course, then I got to […]
Posted in Computing on May 10th, 2003 2 Comments »
Unreal Tournament, when introduced a number of years ago, was one of my favorite games of the time. It still is, even though I've played a lot of Quake 3 lately. Fortunately for Mac users, Unreal Tournament was just released in demo/beta form. Only fourteen years (okay, I exaggerate) after the Windows and Linux versions! […]
Posted in Computing on May 7th, 2003 No Comments »
Want some lame Unix tips? Sign up for this list. Today's tip? COMMENTING OUR DIRECTORY Here is one way to comment your directory. $ cd theDirectory $ touch "zzz*** THIS IS THE DIRECTORY COMMENT! ***zzz" Whenever you type ls, you'll see your comment at the bottom. That's why you type "zzz ...". The asterisk is […]
Posted in Computing on May 7th, 2003 3 Comments »
The topic of "convergence" recently came up on a mailing list I used to read. Convergence in this sense is more than "your computer as the center of everything," but instead "your computer is is everything." The conversation came about a result of Microsoft's continued "push" into this area. The area in which your computer […]
Posted in Computing on May 6th, 2003 17 Comments »
I tried to install Gimp today. I installed Apple's X11 (beta 3), I downloaded GIMP. Then I downloaded gtk. Then I downloaded pango. Then I downloaded glib. Then I tried to ./configure everything. Then I downloaded some pkg-manager or something. I tried to ./configure and ./make it. Twenty minutes later I gave up. This wouldn't […]
Posted in Computing on May 3rd, 2003 No Comments »
Whenever I'm bored for five minutes I pop in on #macdev. PfhorSlayer1 has uncompressed Halo's .map data. mikeash: o no! mikeash flees in abject horror PfhorSlayer1 is professor chaos! PfhorSlaye: B-bow before Professor Chaos! Mwhah! mikeash: Professor Chaos, what a lame name mikeash: even lamer than Dr. Evil iacas: why was it compressed? mikeash: because […]
Posted in Computing on May 3rd, 2003 2 Comments »
I've tried to resist the urge to comment on how funny the whole "crashes IE" thing is, but as Mark points out, the bug affects everything that uses the IE renderer. That includes email clients and whatnot. The bug? <html> <form> <input type> </form> </html> In other words, an input with a type and no […]
Posted in Computing on May 1st, 2003 19 Comments »
Someone published an article called Why eMusic Gets It as a direct comparison between eMusic and the iTunes Music Store (iMusic for the purpose of a funnier title). Point by point, let's have a look at the issues raised.
Posted in Computing on April 29th, 2003 25 Comments »
The Apple iTunes Music Store is up and running at apple.com/music/store/ following yesterday's announcement (stream). We all knew it was coming: what we didn't know was what it would look like, the exact details of pricing, how DRM would be handled, what music would be available, and so on. I have not yet bought any […]
Posted in Computing on April 27th, 2003 4 Comments »
Erik: I love how in the foreword to UHH, the guy says "If this book doesn't kill Unix, nothing will. As for me? I switched t the Mac. No more grep, no more piping, no more SED scripts." Mike: HAHAHA Mike: sucker
Posted in Computing on April 22nd, 2003 7 Comments »
Shawn discusses another article about keyboard shortcuts and how they "suck" on the Mac. My own take: I love using command (Macs), I hate using control (PCs). I love that cmd-A (Mac) works everywhere. I hate that ctrl-A (PCs) works the same in very few PC apps (and even within text fields in the same […]
Posted in Computing on April 20th, 2003 16 Comments »
Tom Coates talks about iChat and some improvements he'd like to see made. First he talks about how iChat lacks groups (something I use in Adium and simply require of an AIM client), and how iChat might manage groups with different windows. He goes on to say… … then I started thinking about the other […]
Posted in Computing on April 19th, 2003 7 Comments »
As if the world needed more, the discussion following the commentary on Dave's CSS rant shows what an immature ass the guy is and always has been.
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