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Hi James,

Just incase you haven't tried it yourself, in Safari the popup dialogue appears below the blurred text in a huge white space between the black bar below the test button and the next paragraph of text...

Neat effect though :-)

Cheers,
Gaz

Man, I must be getting old... cool new languages are definitely coming out faster than I can learn them :-(

Err... isn't New Jersey a State? ;-) I'd have taken Jacksonville (just up the road from me!). Or maybe Juneau (AK).

Cheers,
Gary

Quicksilver is one of those applications that you don't realise how much you need... until you try to work on a machine that doesn't have it :-)

For your next assignment: make sure you have the iTunes plugin installed, and instead of Cmd-Tabbing your way to iTunes to pause it and restart it when you get up to make a nice cuppa... pop QS with Cmd-Space (or whatever hot key you use), press PP (for Play-Pause) and hit enter. When you get back to your desk: Cmd Space PP Enter, and iTunes picks up from where you left off. After a few months you'll have hundreds of these little shortcuts in your muscle memory, and driving OS X is even more pleasant than usual :-D

Incidentally, if you or any of your readers prefer Gnome to KDE, then you can always try out Gnome Launch Box... the Gnome QS close.

I had a parallels installation of haiku back around May time and it seemed pretty cool. except for the fact that I couldn't get it to interact with the outside world... I think the networking in haiku (at least back then) really does leave something to be desired. I also managed to get a BeOS5 installation to work in Parallel's back then too (which was how I discovered haiku in the first place).

Now that I've defected to VMWare, I'll have to give haiku another try. When it can interact with the network, I'll be sure to port libtool and m4 to it!!

Being paranoid and suspicious (it’s a prerequisite for teaching IT Security, sorry), I followed your recipe and compared the resulting app with the one you’re distributing…
<pre>$ diff -burpN azazil/SSH* cuppadev/SSH*
Binary files azazil/SSH Tunnel Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/SSH Tunnel Manager and cuppadev/SSH Tunnel Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/SSH Tunnel Manager differ
$ ls -l azazil/SSH Tunnel Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/SSH Tunnel Manager
56 -rwxr-xr-x 1 gary gary 57236 Jul 18 16:47 azazil/SSH Tunnel Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/SSH Tunnel Manager
$ ls -l cuppadev/SSH Tunnel Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/SSH Tunnel Manager
144 -rwxr-xr-x 1 gary gary 144132 Jul 18 11:49 cuppadev/SSH Tunnel Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/SSH Tunnel Manager
</pre>

Hmmm…. I wonder what all that extra code is? Are you uploading my private keys to an anonymous ftp server somewhere? ;) But then I realised that you hadn’t explained how to configure the build as a Universal binary, and that I have just a slim intel binary. Incidentally, when I build a Universal version, my binary is still more than 3000 bytes larger than yours. Probably a slight difference between our versions of XCode. ;)
Cheers, Gary

The v3i is the suckiest phone I've ever owned. I'm holding out on getting an iPhone until the next revision, and until I can switch SIM cards when I'm in another country. Instead I upgraded to an SE810i before flying out to America last month, and I couldn't be happier!

I've been following OpenMoko with interest for quite some time, having discovered the project while surfing for interesting things to do with my Zaurus. There are definitely Compaq Flash cameras, and I wonder if some bright spark has released an SD slot camera yet?

That aside, I resisted the temptation to buy a developers kit since it is really easy to run an emulator in your existing X server, and build applications for that -- which is how I ended up doing development for my Zaurus, since the Zaurus itself didn't have enough horsepower to run big gui compilations at a sensible speed.

If you do give in to the temptation, I'd love to read about what you think of it.

Shame on you for buying a wince machine! LOL

Had the same problem with my sharp Zaurus SL-C1000 (which runs arm-linux). In the end I just loaded Firefox-1.5, turned off as many of the bells and whistles as I could and put up with slow rendering, secure in the knowledge that (eventually) I would at least be able to read the content...

Cheers,
Gary

Have you tried moneydance? It's written in Java, so has an aqua look-n-feel on OS X. Well worth £15... I've been using it for about 5 years now, and brought all my files over from Linux without any trouble.

Hi James,

Thanks for taking up the baton. If you're human, prove it!

Actually one of my first job interviews out of Uni was for Intelligent Games on the outskirts of London. I remember being gobsmacked that everyone had a £3000 486DX2 66Mhz PC on their desk (oh, wait, I'm showing my age now!). Needless to say, they didn't want me either... I think I flubbed it when I told them I didn't think much of Windows as a development environment :-(

Cheers,
Gary

Wow, that's a great picture, and looks a lot like a temple I visited on one of my trips to India. I have certainly spent time in Tamil Nadu (visiting a Gurukkal while thinking of learning kalaripayattu), but I'm not sure it's the same place... does this one have the hollow columns inside, all carved from a single piece of rock, and that sound like bells when struck?

Hi James,

Wow! I'm deeply impressed. If I've found anything about the OS community, it's that there are way too many projects and way too few contributors :-(

Maybe you should host an installation on you server to get some users, and further down the line some of them will start handing you modest patches at first before getting more deeply involved?

Cheers,
Gary

Parallels 3.0rc1 has snapshot support too, and I believe VMWare has announced that pricing will be $79.95 for fusion when it comes out of beta, although I can't find the post I read that said so to back me up :-)

You're exactly right about Parallels being obsessed with Windows support, which is something I care not one bit about! Personally, being able to run a VMWare Linux session in full screen, and keep an eye on my battery still edges Parallels out of the running, even now that they have snapshot support!

Hi James,

I must admit that I've avoided learning javascript for several years, mostly because I always thought it was a hacky means of fiddling with the DOM of rendered pages on the fly (woo hoo!), and more recently because AJAX and JSON scare the hell out of me from a security point of view.

I'll be interested in what else you have to say about it as you get deeper into the language, and maybe change my mind over whether it is worth spending the time for me to learn it...

Cheers,
Gary

Thanks for participating in the fav exchange, I've faved your blog and added a link from my blog.

I'll certainly return technorati favs and linkbacks from anyone who faves my blog.

Cheers,
Gaz

Thanks for participating in the fav exchange, I've faved your blog and added a link from my blog.

I'll certainly return technorati favs and linkbacks from anyone who faves my blog.

Cheers,
Gaz

Hi Dj, thanks for the fav and the link. I've added you to my techno-faves and linked you from my blog too!

Cheers,
Gaz

Hi! I am Gary V. Vaughan and I have added everyone on the list to my Technorati Favorites. Please add me to your Technorati Favorites, read my best posts and subscribe to my feed.

Thanks for the link and the fav... I've done the same for you :-)
See you at the top of the Technorati Faves list!

I'd like to start a similar link exchange at my blog, so I'll link back here when I post about the experiment later today. If the wait is too much, the post will boil down to recommending that my readers add a comment to your post, and click the favourite me link in all the other comments.

Obviously, I've done the same :-) And will of course favourite anyone else that favourites me!

I'm gvvaughan at techorati; please favourite blog.azazil.net.