Friday, July 19, 2002

CNN.com - Purr-fect TV: Company developing show for cats - July 19, 2002 [Daypop Top 40] I don't think Cody would watch it... he doesn't watch TV, however when there are interesting sounds he'll stare at the speakers. 10:58:52 PM    Comments []

I booted MacOS 9 to scan & fax my time sheet (neither FaxSTF X or Cocoa eFax work reliably, so I still boot 9 to send faxes) and while I was in 9 I decided to do some web browsing. I fired up Netscape 4.7 and I was blown away by the speed. I never realized how much faster 9 is, or just how slow most stuff is in X until I actually ran 9 for a while. I have a G4/500AGP minitower with 768M of RAM (although I also run X on my iBook/500, which feels painfully slow sometimes). X is passable but no speed demon on this machine. I wouldn't want to run it on anything slower. 6:16:39 PM    Comments []

you may already have one. McCusker on planned fragility: "It's likely true Office uses such inflexible code that feature changes do need file format changes.... [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog] Many years ago, in the days of Word 4 & 5.1 (both used almost the same file format), I had their file format documentation and I wrote code for Scriptor to read Word files. I don't remember the details, and I no longer have the documents, but the format was extremely *ugly*, with the file broken up into blocks with pointers to the next block of the same type. We didn't even attempt to read files saved with "fast save", which worked by just appending blocks & rewriting pointers elsewhere in the file to the newly appended blocks. 4:53:11 PM    Comments []

UPDATE: I see directnic screwed up my DNS entries for mymacmail.com. They set it to their default rather than what I specified when I registered the domain. I just fixed it. 3:05:57 PM    Comments []