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Re: Geoff Garside - Preferably never

Geoff — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:12:27 -0000

Was that the Tudor 500?

Re: Geoff Garside - Added comment support

Geoff — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:40:09 -0000

You like it? Its quite nice and easy really. Hopefully it will be a suitable solution for allowing feedback while not allowing spam to poison my space.

Re: Geoff Garside - Xbox 360 and Connect360

Geoff — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:22:02 -0000

Think I'll probably stick with Connect360 to be honest, its nicer having it as a prefPane rather than a stand alone app adding further clutter to your task bar. I'm also a bit of an aesthetics whore too, the Connect360 appearance looks nicer than the Rivet one :P

Re: Geoff Garside - Its the little things

Geoff — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:33:50 -0000

Its those tiny little well thought out touches which save you seconds in completing a task and don't disrupt your work flow.

Another prime example of this is the Mac OS Authorization Panel and the Vista UAC Window. The Mac one pops up, says what it wants and goes away. The Vista one flashes your entire screen on low end graphics cards or fades out the background on higher end ones, then asks you to click a button. For some reason the thing that annoys me most about this is how long it takes Vista to put that panel up there for you to dismiss. Sometimes lose your train of thought.

Re: Geoff Garside - Leopard Manpath

Geoff — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:15:19 -0000

Thats interesting, I wonder why they opted to go with an environment variable instead then

Re: Using rspec have_tag

Geoff — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:32:55 -0000

Thanks for this, just got me out of an rspec hole.

Re: Geoff Garside

Geoff — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:53:31 -0000

I'd agree but Twittelator looks terrible.

Re: Status Update 8/13 @ 2:35AM EST

Geoff — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:03:09 -0000

Yeah I'm really hoping Apples working on fixing that, CulturedCode's Things app took two weeks for the last update to make it through.

Good luck with the servers and software fellas I know both can be a royal pita

Re: Status Update 8/13 @ 5:40AM EST

Geoff — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:35:14 -0000

Working well for me, now if only MSN allowed multiple connections

Re: Geoff Garside

Geoff — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:08:25 -0000

It was quite funny, James had me looking at your site for a good few minutes to see if I could spot it and I couldn't. James attributed his noticing it to his current works requirement for attention to all details.

Re: Geoff Garside

Geoff — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:49:32 -0000

Tis, was OH super special über packing tape which was used. Don't worry I don't think they'll notice....

Re: Geoff Garside

Geoff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:50:28 -0000

Yep, its still listing about so I don't think its buried in the bottom or anything, its quite strange really. Maybe someone dropped an anchor in and didn't pay out enough cable or something.

Re: Geoff Garside

Geoff — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:38:53 -0000

The track is Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós. Its on the album Takk. I should be seeing them on the 21st of November :D

Re: Geoff Garside

Geoff — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:07:04 -0000

My boss sent me the link actually, I watched some of the Walter stuff as well but didn't find it as amusing.

Re: Proxying through complex situations

Geoff — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:57:25 -0000

That works equally well, I tried all sorts of combinations before settling on socat, none of my googling turned up that option though, most of them were about creating an SSH tunnel SOCKS proxy for web access.

Once I started looking for options to do netcat and things I think I focused on that path which meant I didn't find the -NL option. Annoying really as I've just realised thats how I used to connect to my Uni email when they turned off external access and our department had an SSH server we were allowed to use.

Re: So what happened to me on Friday the 6th of March?

Geoff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:12:19 -0000

I would have been quite happy to have gone home alone without any injuries of any kind I assure you

Re: Initialising Cocoa NSValueTransformers

Geoff — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:38:19 -0000

Oooh, even better, I can go clean up some of my code now.

Re: Spotlight Tip: Getting Rid Of Windows Files

bdotdub — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:07:01 -0000

I had the same problem...good post! For the more tech savvy people (more comfortable w/ unix/linux commands), you can open terminal and type this:

find . -name "Thumbs.db" -exec rm \{} \;

That'll do the job!

Re: A portion of my ToDo list.

bdotdub — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:06:58 -0000

thank you, this has always bothered me. i never knew where they found this screenshot: http://xkcd.com/155/

Re: Have you tried Firefox 3 yet?

bdotdub — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:50:28 -0000

I had to get used to the address bar but yeah, it's really great. One thing that annoys me (as with any version change) is that a lot of my extensions don't work. I bypassed the version checking and some stuff (like gears) still won't work. It all comes with time I guess :)

A thing that's really nice on the Mac build is that it looks like a native mac. It used to look like a Windows/agnostic window and never really fit in (and was made fun of by the other apps). But good to see the firefox team making this happen!

Re: Somehow, this guy has to do with F1

bdotdub — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:49:09 -0000

hey look, my cousin

Re: bdotr

bdotdub — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:32:05 -0000

i need a data distribution mechanism

Re: In the future, we will not be iPhones

bdotdub — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:01:58 -0000

I wholeheartedly agree that they're not mutually exclusive. But I think right now at this early stage o the iPhone, it's critical to make sure user experience isn't crappy.

A big part of the reason why Vista didn't take off immediately (which I think killed it) was that hard driver writers wrote terrible drivers for Vista that crashed it all the time. Yes, the iPhone platform is different, but Apple probably wants to make sure its off to a good start. I wouldn't be surprised if they opened it up later on.

There's also the ad hoc distribution that has yet to be seen. If they do it right, there might be a way to allow users to install applications outside of the AppStore.

Lastly, our friends Aleks has argued that its because the iPhone hardware is bad. He says that the iPhone has no real memory management, and Apple needs to make sure the submitted app isn't messing around with the memory of other apps.

PS: I think your timestamps are wrong. Looks like they're PST.

Re: At the end of the day, we are geeks.

bdotdub — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:19:01 -0000

Where did you go see him? I've only seen his talks online. Very cool guy.

Re: bdotr - Afraid of screen

bdotdub — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:22:53 -0000

This post was directed mostly towards you a guarinj :)