Quarter Life Crisis Comments

dan on Travel notes

dan — 2010-02-06T23:08:36+01:00

In your last photo, what’s the one at bottom right hand side for? ‘Always stand with your shoulder pointing into the corner’ ?

PS Don’t worry about the mett, it gives me a good excuse to visit you and indulge ;-)

Rob on pictd

Rob — 2010-02-03T13:37:59+01:00

I have this problem too. Once I quit pictd, my computer became more responsive - it was using 1Gb of RAM.

pensato on iPad

pensato — 2010-02-02T21:45:06+01:00

I’m not a huge fan of the execution here, either. That said, if I didn’t already own a laptop, I might be persuaded to buy this. For real computing, I use my desktop and tend to use my laptop for quick usage on the road. The iPad will be great, as many have said, for media consumption in a light-weight form-factor.

I don’t like Apple’s new trend towards closing up, though. Part of their strength over the last decade has been the embracing of open platforms and standards. Closing things back up seems like the wrong approach. The other thing I don’t like here is that I’m suspecting that the iPod/iPhone OS are on a convergence path with the Mac OS, and I suspect OS 11 will be their meeting point. If that means OS 11 will have the same fist-grip on development, I will be unhappy.

Maybe Google will be the one to keep them open in this regard.

One last thought: am I the only one who wonders why Apple hasn’t leveraged their “Ink” technology in any of these devices? It works quite well and seems a natural fit— at least for quick notes and such…

Jörg Oyen on GraphViz & OmniGraffle

Jörg Oyen — 2010-01-30T10:41:30+01:00

Hm, just wondering if the actual Instaviz and Omnigraffle Pro build not really fit. My network drawing via Instaviz just have outlines and connecting lines - the result in Omnigraffle just shows me numbers. These are matching to the amount of drawn objects. Is there a hidden trick to reuse the GraphViz format in OmniGraffle?

ssp on X.5 Time Machine

ssp — 2010-01-27T19:08:14+01:00

@rox0r:
You can ‘hack’ your way towards using encrypted disk images for the backup. Works well for the drive I store at the office every day.

Couldn’t agree more on your other points, though.

rox0r on X.5 Time Machine

rox0r — 2010-01-27T18:59:02+01:00

Thanks for the great article. You really present a systematic analysis of TM. TM is so awesome and yet it is so close to being even more amazing. It’s feels like they could see the peak of the mountain and decided to stop and plant their flag just shy of the peak.

Lacking features: - Backing up to encrypted disk images - The “file vault” mess - Friendly support of rotated or even just duplicate backup media (why can’t it realize that i backup at work and home every day by itself!! (I use marco polo and bash scripts to swap plist config files) - Upgrade path for new backup disks / resized partitions

Ignore all of the complaints. I think X.5 makes plenty of sense and is less redundant than OS X 10.6. It’s like the car salesmen selling the “O”-ten model cars (like “O”7, 08, 09).

ssp on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard [part 1 of 2]

ssp — 2010-01-27T17:30:10+01:00

@Pastaklovn:
That’s not true. In Mac OS X.6 the ability to deactivate languages in the Finder’s information window was removed.

(As disabling languages actually moved folders inside the application’s bundle, the feature wasn’t particularly useful beforehand either as it required people to have write access to the application to use it.)

Pastaklovn on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard [part 1 of 2]

Pastaklovn — 2010-01-27T16:54:18+01:00

You can choose languages on a per-application basis in the “Language” pane of the Finder Get Info window of a particular application.

ssp on Der eingebildete Kranke

ssp — 2010-01-24T17:38:53+01:00

@Kristjan Kannike:
Thanks for pointing this out – embarrassing. Looks like I got my old French authors mixed up.

Kristjan Kannike on Der eingebildete Kranke

Kristjan Kannike — 2010-01-24T08:46:57+01:00

“Candide” was written by Voltaire made cynical by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

mutuelles on X.5 Time Machine

mutuelles — 2010-01-20T13:40:14+01:00

I do agree with many of the issues raised, however Time Machine should not be seen as a universal backup solution.

d.w. on December Films

d.w. — 2010-01-14T15:04:02+01:00

I love the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — one of the first DVDs I ever bought, way back when. You mentioned Joe Strummer in your post, an coincidentally Mick Jones’ Big Audio Dynamite samples the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly heavily in the song “Medicine Show”.

Eric3 on Colour me Picked

Eric3 — 2010-01-09T17:46:11+01:00

… but only in Mac OS 8. That easter egg was removed in Mac OS 8.5 and later by Apple’s No-Fun Squad.

Pope on Colour me Picked

Pope — 2010-01-06T04:26:36+01:00

One other cool thing about the Crayon Picker in the old Mac OS: the nubs wore down over time!

d.w. on Music 2009

d.w. — 2009-12-31T15:26:38+01:00

I really liked the second Engineers album, and the debut from Seeland as well. Also really liked Marmoset’s LP, and as far as chart stuff goes the La Roux album wasn’t bad. The Broadcast/Foxus Group record was interesting, though not really song-oriented. I only just picked up the new Monolake (haven’t even had a chance to listen to it yet, but I’m sure I’ll enjoy it), and Bop’s “Atraxia” genuinely sounds like nothing I’ve ever heard before (a rarity these days, I’m afraid.)