December 2007
8 posts
Transmit has S3 support
Hey! Transmit can upload files to your buckets. I guess maybe that’s been in there for a while, I just never noticed it. Very nice.
Macbooks on fire?
The Apple Store (U.S.) - Apple 85W MagSafe Power Adapter (for MacBook Pro) Over 200 reports of melted, frayed, and otherwise inoperable Macbook Pro power adapters, posted at Apple’s e-commerce doorstep. Their lawyers are a little too busy shutting down blogs. They should be issuing a recall before people’s houses start buring down. But as we all know, Apple doesn’t read its...
Get a good, randomish password from your Mac
The password assistant in OSX is the work of a genius. Seriously, Apple put the smart guy to work on this. If you ever need a strong password for something, open Keychain Access (cmd+space, type k e y c then enter) and click the plus sign to add a new key. Next to the password field, there is a key icon, which you click to open the Password Assistant. Play with the password type and length. Pretty...
Generate Some Entropy, yo
For whatever reason my Debian servers don’t generate enough entropy. Programs that read from /dev/random tend to block for longer-than-acceptable periods of time, and its not like I can just wiggle the mouse to fill up the pool. So I was extremely happy to run across this discussion about generating entropy using the soundcard. Ah, listen to all the noise generated by the fans in the server...
Keybindings in OSX Terminal
I have plenty of good things to say about the Leopard Terminal.app: love the tabs, love the “live” .term files, love the window groups. The combination of the three saves me a good five minutes every time I sit down to code. But before any of it is useful, you have to clear out Apple’s non-shell-friendly default keybindings for end, home, page up, and page down. I was reminded of...
General Web Breakage
In the last week, GMail and AOL mail have both managed to completely bork their Safari interfaces, at least for Safari users who haven’t upgraded to Leopard. Facebook doesn’t work for Mozilla 1.x users any more. And good luck finding any kind of travel-related website that doesn’t require Javascript. Is it totally beyond the braintrusts at these companies that web applications...