kasia in a nutshell

It's a long weekend.. a good time to (1) buy an external firewire drive and finally make a solid backup of my entire powerbook.. and (2) upgrade to the newest version of OSX.

All done..

I bought a 200GB maxtor external hard drive for $199.. good deal.. and handy for backups, has a nifty "one touch backup" functionality with OSX, it looks like it may be using rsync underneath.. at least the behaviour is similar.

Posted by kasia at 11:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Previous version of GPGMail do not work with tiger.. there is a new version (1.1) that does, but it requires a litlte fix. After installing, mail automatically disables it, easy fix..

1. Quit mail
2. Move ~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled) to ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
3. Using 'defaults' in a term window:
   

   defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1 
   defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2

This also fixes some other plugins..

Posted by kasia at 10:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I think this just proves we are doomed as a species:

...the iPod digital music player has confused so many thousands of new owners that the gadget has spawned its own service industry - to help technophobes download their own songs.

The article: news.independent.co.uk

Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology at Lancaster University, said the problem was that the iPod had become a fashion must-have, but that fashionistas tended to be technologically illiterate. "The irony is the people who can use it - the tecchies - are not in themselves very fashionable. But they buy it because they find the technology fascinating."

I would think the reason 'tecchies' buy iPods is because it's an incredibly useful device if you like listening to music? Maybe it's just me..

Posted by kasia at 10:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I upgraded the memory in my powerbook today, it is now a scrumptious 768MB, up from the standard and boring 512MB (came with a side of a leftover 256MB RAM chip).

I was hoping this might help with Safari performance. I should have known better.. I'm a programmer I know how these things work, yet somehow, against all logic and reasoning, I still hoped.

It helped -- now Safari takes up 648MB of RAM instead of the previous 400-something.

Great.

Is anyone even looking at this memory leak? It shows up when browsing sites that heavily rely on tables for layout use background-images assigned via css.

Posted by kasia at 11:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (10)

After much testing, searching, listening to screeching and static I have found an FM station that works perfectly for my entire commute which takes me along i91 through much of central Connecticut. 102.5

There should be a website that lists best iTrip stations by region. I'd start one, but I'm (a) lazy and (b) busy.

Posted by kasia at 08:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)

VoodooPad:

VoodooPad is a new kind of notepad. It's like having your own personal hypertext library, where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists... Anything on your mind. VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will feel right at home with VoodooPad.

Very nifty.. been playing with it tonight.. makes making to-do lists a snap.

Posted by kasia at 10:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to the world of osx, so easily impressed.

• Expose is awesome.
• Mail filtering actually finds spam now. Previous version marked it very rarely..
• Safari still has a huge memory leak.
• GUI is definitely faster.
• Postfix is a nice touch.
• Disk utility changes are neat.
• MySQL! -- I don't know what I was smoking.. there's a mysql user & group but the server does not appear to be installed, I'll try to do that later.
• shell still defaults to bash, but that's easy to change.

Took me about 5min to remember how to copy MP3s off of my iPod to import into my iTunes library. This shouldn't be such a pain..

For future reference...
Mount iPod, make sure to not allow iTunes to take over it (this will erase it).
in a shell cd /Volumes/<ipod name>/iPod Control/Music
Using a simple shell script, copy files from each dir (foreach dir (`ls`) etc..) then import the files into iTunes and all works...

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Panther up and running.. X11 installing... then configure. Looks good so far. Mark has a good write up on what's new in panther

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I've had it on my hard drive for a while now. Over a week actually. Stop wishing evil things on me, I can explain why I waited this long. See, I didn't have any CDRs or for that matter CDRWs. I just bought some yesterday and promptly burned panther on them. Now, I also have a real life (yes, I actually do and some of it is quite problematic) and didn't really have a chance to do the install until tonight.. but what's a better way to spend a Friday night if not with your favorite laptop? So.. panther... here we go.

First the checklist..

• Files backed up - check.
• MP3s on the iPod - check.
• iPod still working - check.
• CDRs all actually work - check - it would really suck to find out halfway through the install that one of them is corrupt.

See you on the other side.

<powerdown>

Posted by kasia at 08:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Downloading.. downloading.. damn this is slow.

meow.

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