Monday, February 18, 2002

Default Folder X is out. Hopefully it'll do something towards fixing the abysmal state of Nav Services dialog boxes in Mac OS X. (Hello, Apple?) 8:28:33 PM | reply [] OK, figured out how categories work (this was just a user-level thing). Still confused about the #upstream.xml stuff, and that's all I can work on for tonight. 6:50:42 PM | reply [] Well, if Jim is doing the upstreaming-to-Conversant thing, it shouldn't be so much of a surprise that I'm working on the upstreaming-to-WebDAV thing. My first upstreaming success is here. I haven't tackled the hard problem of deleting yet, but this is a start. (This post should be upstreamed there, too, I hope...) Question about the #upstream.xml files for anyone who's watching: As a test, I added an #upstream.xml to the www/categories/webdavTest folder. When I added a theme to that folder, Radio created an images folder inside the webdavTest folder. But that images folder got upstreamed to UserLand's server using the xmlStorageSystem driver, not using my #upstream.xml. Is it normal behavior that the #upstream.xml does not affect an entire hierarchy? (This is different from how #directives have worked since Frontier 4, in that case.) 6:33:46 PM | reply [] To one of my coworkers, you know who you are: stop introducing me to new music and stopping me from working! 4:17:15 PM | reply [] This is a test to make sure I successfully reconstructed my #upstream.xml file after accidentally deleting it (and that partition isn't backed up, doh!) 2:57:11 PM | reply [] Ugh, USB Overdrive beta 3 has decided to forget my acceleration/speed settings randomly, reducing my trackball to turtle-speed until I do something to wake it up again. I miss those old icons: Interesting, note the two versions of the number "3" in that picture. One is how Chicago actually shipped, the other must be an earlier version that was embedded as a graphic. Also interesting how lacking in text the original Control Panel was. I don't really like this interface design much. 12:41:07 PM | reply [] Chimera: Mozilla embedded in Cocoa. This is terrific; I can see what the people on other platforms using Galeon, etc., have been crowing about. It launches in 2 seconds on my Mac, almost on par with Internet Explorer. It even renders Radio's desktop home page correctly because it's based on the Unix backend (meaning it uses POSIX file paths, not Mac-style ones). It seems Dave Hyatt, Mozilla überhacker, is behind this. Rock! (This bug is so true.) And the interface is very nicely done. If only it didn't crash so much. 6:50:24 AM | reply [] MultiTerm: Very early development version of a Cocoa terminal emulator. After my lengthy (and continuing) struggle with Terminal.app, I think redirecting my efforts towards an open-source effort would be a better use of my time. 6:27:06 AM | reply [] Definitely need to find out what's causing this: {njriley#ttyq0@theremin:110} 5:19am ~>ps No more processes. Something or other is running away, and this is the second time this has happened... wonder if it's possible to prevent excessive forking somehow. 'limit' doesn't mention anything about processes. Hmm. 5:21:45 AM | reply []