Firefox and Dialogs

When signing into my feedburner account, the following dialog showed up:



If I click enter, which button will it default to? Thats a bad dialog.

quicksilver wins over the dock

I hid the dock in an effort to use quicksilver more. I haven't seen the dock in days. The much touted leopard "Stack" feature on the dock is useless to me. Maybe I shouldn't get too comfortable with quicksilver though.

I'm inclined to encourage users to move over to the more stable and well supported alternatives like LaunchBar. Right now QS 54 (ed: the current build) accomplishes everything that I really need, the problem is stability, which for some reason most people seem to be ignoring.

QS is open source, so their is hope.

Cocoacast and the new Leopard dev tools

OS X developer tools have been updated to Xcode version 3.0, Interface Builder 3.0 and Objective-C 2.0 in Leopard. I've been learning OS X development, and I found cocoacast that has three screencasts that cover these changes.

Episode 34 covers Interface Builder 3.0.

Episode 35 covers xcode 3.0.

Episode 36 covers objective-c 2.0.

Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data

via Youtube.com

new hak5 episode

Watching a new hak5 episode which can be downloaded from here. I just started watching, but it looks like a really good episode!

In this episode Simon Jakesch from Zenoss joins us to talk about the open source network management suite. Wess shows us the science behind the infrared camera mod. Chris Gerling hacks the Nokia 770 Internet tablet. Darren builds a one-click remote assistance package to help save the holidays, and Will Coppola drops by with an EVDO antenna mod sure to boost signal. Plus details on the upcoming Hak5Live / meetup at the East Coast LAN as always trivia. Grab some hax0rflakes, it’s time for a heavy dose of technolust.

bubble

:D

Django/Bootcamp problems

I first started my day thinking I'd get some django programming done. I created a new django project, got the admin module installed, went to check the admin page, and got an error that django had problems loading the template. For some reason django can't see the installed template file (I was using OS X Leopard). After mucking about for a bit I gave up for the moment. Anybody else have this problem?

I wanted to install bootcamp with windows on my macbook pro. Installed windows, installed bootcamp drivers, had a blue screen while drivers installed. Rebooted, and reinstalled drivers. Rebooted, started windows update, and it says windows is already updating. The progress meter sits their at 0% for half an hour. I decided to reboot. Windows says do not reboot or power down, installing update 1 of 1. Its been sitting their for half an hour!

I guess I won't be getting much done today. :(

VC in Russia

A very interesting interview by Robert. It will be interesting watching how tech expands in Russia.

Ruby and Google Maps

via Google Video

Dell and Sun

You can watch the keynotes here.

Thats Michael Dell and Jonathan Schwartz on stage.

font

Droid Sans Mono great coding font: "of particular interest for developers is the Droid Sans Mono font that looks great in Visual Studio not only at my favourite 10 point..."

This is a great coding font, and it looks good on Textmate.

cocoacast

Their are some great introductory screencast for beginning Cocoa programmers at cocoacast.

More on spaces

I've noticed another problem with spaces on leopard. When working on a particular work space, if you chose "Hide others" option, it hides all windows not only the space you are at, but other spaces as well. I'd like it to just "hide others" on the Space I am working on please!

quicksilver goes open source!

Hosted at Google Code Project.

Can we get a linux port please!

via tuaw.com

Operating Systems

Whats with new operating systems these days? I've heard/experienced complaints about all the new operating systems that have been released lately:

Vista
Leopard
Gutsy

Perhaps its because none of these operating systems brought forth a revolutionary change to offset the discomfort of moving from your older OS.

From a users perspective the most useful Leopard feature for me was Spaces. On Linux I use Windowmaker as my window manager which has had virtual work spaces for years. And yet Leopard still didn't get it right. Of course there is technical goodness (dtrace), but their is also badness (java6). If only that was it. Now leopard causes major data loss!

I've been lazy about upgrading to gutsy so I am not really sure if their are real problems there. I hope not.

Maybe I should try switching to this. All I need to do is find a laptop that will run it well. Its a new release like the operating systems mentioned above, and I haven't heard anything bad about it yet! :)

IDA Pro Disassembler and Debugger

IDA Pro Disassembler and Debugger: "IDA Pro has released v4.9 as freeware. Get your copy HERE. It is by far the best disassembler out there for the windows platform. I HIGHLY recommend using it."

(Via Planet Sysadmin.)

This is a really useful tool for debugging (and other stuff).

Skype on leopard

I've been running leopard for a week. I enabled the firewall and rebooted the system and Skype stopped working. Reading the forums I found that this is a known problem with Skype on Leopard. If you have the firewall on, Skype stops functioning.

I downloaded a beta version of skype from here, and it seems to work fine for me.

Update: Skype beta is not working for me too.

Investigating the Leopard Firewall | securosis.com

Investigating the Leopard Firewall | securosis.com: "I feel like I'm missing something, but I think that's it. In short, block mode seems to block inbound connections but ports show as open/filtered. Stealth mode works, partially, but some ports still show on a port scan no matter what (like Kerberos). Bonjour is ALWAYS accessible, unless you're in stealth mode. Application ('Set access') mode is a mess- code signing breaks applications, and the behavior is inconsistent. Any launched services are authorized and you can't change the settings in the firewall GUI.

The good news is that ipfw is still enabled and you can manually configure it or use a GUI like WaterRoof."

(Via Matasano Chargen.)

On my firewall in leopard I have "Set access for specific services and applications" selected. The only service I want available is SSH. Running nmap from another machine, I get:

adnan@adnan-desktop:~$ nmap 192.168.xxx.xxx

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-01 22:08 CDT
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 4.044 seconds

With the -P0 flag:
adnan@adnan-desktop:~$ nmap 192.168.xxx.xxx -P0

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-01 22:09 CDT
Interesting ports on 192.168.xxx.xxx:
Not shown: 1696 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 31.862 seconds

Looks good to me.

Update: Ouch!
Nick left an interesting comment. I'm not sure whats going on here yet. But definitely not nice!

techmeme

Techmeme has a thread about a Techmeme killer! Thats funny :)

Update: I don't like blogrunner. Its too cluttered. I love techmeme, wonderful interface.

Scoble and the CEOs

Scoble catchs CEO of myspace and google!

via Dave Winer

Update: For some reason I can get the right embed video again. If you look at the video their is a way to move back in the video, an arrow on the video.