Firefox 1.5
Firefox has just been updated to 1.5. It is working fine for me, but I haven’t really noticed any of the new features.
The one problem that I had was getting some old extensions to work. This post has some instructions on getting this to work.
[via MAKE: Blog]
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Script to remove old files
I finally got around to writing a script to remove old files from dcc that were filling up my disk. The script was pretty simple.
#!/bin/sh
TIMELIMIT="+14"
LOGDIR=/var/dcc/log
DATE=`date +"%y%m%d"`
if [ -d $LOGDIR ]; then
find $LOGDIR -type f -name 'msg.*' -mtime $TIMELIMIT -exec rm {} \;
fi
Technorati Tags: system admin
Cast Away
Today, I downloaded Cast Away, which is an applescript that allows you to specify settings for each podcast in iTunes. For example, you can specify how many episodes to keep for podcast.
It looks like it can do this cleanup on a daily basis. When you set this up, all that it does is an a entry in your user’s crontab.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get this to work. I was getting some AppleScript error. Until I get this to work, I have reverted to manually deleting podcast episodes that I don’t have time to listen to.
[via TUAW]
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convert between text formats
I just saw this post that describes the textutil command line tool. This tool can convert between text, html, Rich Text, Microsoft Word formats, in addition to others.
It is pretty cool that this is built into to Mac OS X 10.4.
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Digital Life
I just saw the HDTV edition of Digital Life TV, and I actually liked this show. It is a lot like the old Screen Savers from TechTV.
Here is the link to subscribe to this in iTunes.
[via HD Beat]
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Apple Mail and dialup
Over Thanksgiving, we were staying in a condo that did not have high speed network access, so I was using dialup to access the network.
I have configured Mail to get my mail with IMAP. The main reason that I did this is because I want to leave my mail on the server, so I can check it with different clients. Another benefit of IMAP is that that clients can only download the headers instead of downloading the whole message.
It sees that Apple’s implementation is pretty poor when it comes to IMAP. Here are the probelems that I have seen:
Hopefully last memory post
Hopefully, this will be the last post that I have to make on this topic. The problem that I was having was that I was running out of memory when there was a lot of access in apache. The swap partition was being filled up, and eventually the machine just bogged down swapping.
Part of the problem was that LifeType is using a lot of memory. This is being fixed in the 1.1 release. But, I don’t want to upgrade to it until it is more stable.
In the mean time, I have just reduced the number of threads that apache can start. The worst thing that can happen is that when there is a lot of access, some requests may be denied. At least this is better than having the whole machine go down.
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Forty Faces
Forty Faces is an interesting site. It will show a photo representing each of the most recently updated blogs that it is watching.
Currently, it is looking at the rss feed to determine when there are new posts. Maybe in the future it will use xmlrpc pings to determine when new posts are made.
[via Paint the Tiger • Carve the Swan]
The neighbors must love this
This video is pretty cool. At first I though that this person just hooked up X10 controlled lights to a midi player, but I think that some more thought went into this.
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Synergy Gui
I just saw this post about a UI for synergy on Mac OS X. I have been using synergy to share the keyboard and mouse on my Windows and Linux workstations at work. Previously, there has only been a command line version available on Mac OS X. Now SynergyKM provides a UI for configuration of Synergy.
I see that it includes a version of the synergy built in. I wonder if you want to use a different version, if it would be possible to put one in your search path.
