Nicholas Riley¹s WeblogThoughts from a computer science graduate student,<br>medical student and Cocoa programmer (this week).(Untitled)- August 21, 2003 I'm taking a temporary break from blogging, mailing lists, news, Cocoa programming, and almost everything else computer-related in my life. It's nothing life-threatening, just a strong need for more focus on my research. This entry is here just so you don't think I've dropped off the face of the earth.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100148/2003/08/20.html#a683 (Untitled)- August 17, 2003 Haven't blogged in a while, and don't have much time tonight, so here's a somewhat stream-of-consciousness entry. Last week my mother and I got her DSL set up in record time, and were doing an iChat AV conference a few seconds thereafter. She went to her first major league baseball game last night, courtesy of her company, and had great seats. So did Eric Soroos, apparently. The weird coincidence is that she just moved from Boston to Seattle, and she goes to a game where the Red Sox and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100148/2003/08/16.html#a682 (Untitled)- August 12, 2003 This is a test of the new WYSIWYG Radio editor. This takes me back to Mozilla (not even Camino) for the first time in quite a while. Mozilla seems faster than last I used it, but the user interface is still clunky as ever, and some long-standing usability bugs, such as not being able to close an empty tab from the keyboard in certain cases, remain. It's Safari's great attention to detail, rather than any wealth of features, that continues to make it my preferred browser. The editor itself...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100148/2003/08/12.html#a681 (Untitled)- August 11, 2003 I really am an idiot for not getting a cable modem until now. I only got it because Steve is moving in with me, but let's just ignore that fact for the moment... The productivity I've lost to modem latency and transfer speeds over the past four years is too much to think about it. So, in conclusion, goodbye, and hello, Finally! Now, off to work.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100148/2003/08/11.html#a680 (Untitled)- August 10, 2003 Sorry, trackback should actually work now. Forgot to actually click the "enable trackback" checkbox. Oops. Back to work...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100148/2003/08/09.html#a679 (Untitled)- August 10, 2003 Here's something I posted on the Boston BBS, which I figure might be useful to someone else. It traces the terminology relating to disks from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X in a hopefully intelligible fashion. Q. I'm trying to understand the differences between a disk image, a folder, and a partition. Does anyone have the energy A. There can be a lot of confusion over terminology. Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X can use different terms to refer to the same entities. Unix adds some more terms of its own,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100148/2003/08/09.html#a678 (Untitled)- August 8, 2003 This week, I managed to fry both of the external ports on my FireWire PCI card, and the supposedly protected FireWire port on my PowerBook. Many months ago I dumped my old cheap FireWire enclosure, and now only use a WiebeTech AC-powered bridge, an iSight and iPod, and a high-quality Adaptec cable to connect my two machines for FireWire over IP. Since I haven't plugged anything except the Adaptec cable into my PowerBook for several weeks, I think my use of FireWire over IP is responsible,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100148/2003/08/07.html#a677 |