Wednesday 4 September 2002

I used ChimeraKnight to pick up the latest Chimera version of the Navigator. (Chimera uses the Gecko rendering engine developed in the Mozilla project on the native Cocoa UI, rather than the generic one-size-fits-all Mozilla UI.) Gosh but this thing is speedy. OmniWeb, Mozilla, and IE all feel sluggish next to it. Unfortunately it just crashed after I had loaded it with tabs and windows representing pages I wanted to read, maybe twenty-five page views over ten windows. Interestingly enough, it happened as I was trying to get to the Radio Desktop Website without being connected to a network. Now I can’t open it again, as it claims that it is already open. Must be some lock in the system. Aha: a link called ~/Library/Application Support/Chimera/Profiles/default/mumbletypeg.slt/lock. Simple enough: mv lock junk. Before I started though, I tar’ed the Cache directory. And a good thing too: seems like the original cache got cleared on starting Navigator, which worked... like... a charm! Once unarchived, this: grep -l body * | sed "s/\(.*d01\)/mv '&' '\1.html'/" | sh gave all those hexadecimally-named html files proper extensions. BODY also. Caught some js files this way though. grep’ping for GIF8 and adding gif extensions, JFIF and adding jpg. Then navigate to the cache folder in the Finder, and drag HTML files to the Chimerical Navigator. Use creation dates sort proximities in list view to associate images and scripts with their respective pages. Use column view with a preview pane to check pictures. Viola!—a big fiddle. Hm lost my double-you key all of a sudden. Luckily it’s on the microConnections USB keyboard and not the TiBook. Whoops, here it is again. Confusing. I tapped definitively and authoritatively almost ten times. Twenty minutes later and wow what ws I can write! Of course, this would not work on Internet Explorer, as it uses a WDB cache I think. It’s a single file, sort of like a tape archive (tar) but (unsurprisingly) seems to be a proprietary format. 6:34:13 AM    comment [] Jaguar’s TextEdit reminds me of a less aesthetic MacWrite—I don’t like all the default tab placements—it’s ugly. Do you remember MacWrite? MacPaint? Those were the days. When I got my first Macintosh (128) in May or March of 1984, it came with MacWrite, MacPaint, a System Disk, and a set of introductory disks. These disks explained all about how to use a mouse: moving it and watching the pointer move; picking it up, repositioning, and continuing motion; the click; the drag; the double-click. I also remember a maze-generating program—excuse me, application—that had several types and complexities and would highlight as you traced over it with the mouse pointer. I had wanted a C64 but my father had said, “No! It has color! You’ll play games on it!” Little did he know, huh? Ancient Art of War. Dark Castle. Banzai! or something like that, the artillery gun thing. That programmable robot thing wandering the tile world. Memory is going. All those Infocom games Planetfall and Floyd. That cylindrical spaceship thing and the weasel village. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That six-robot thing. 1:46:13 AM    comment []

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