Quicksilver b53 for Leopard - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): "Fortunately, Blacktree's servers are now back up and beta 53 (build 3814) of Quicksilver is available for download (download link)"
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
load cycle count
I am running Leopard on my macbook pro, and I thought it would be interesting to see what the load cycle count on my box was. Mind you, I'm not too knowledgeable about hard drives. Just to play around, I downloaded the smartmon tools and compiled from source.
Running smartctl -a /dev/disk0 I get:
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 66403
According to the original article he was at 56000 load cycles! I'm at 66403! Yikes!
I bought the machine in June of this year!
Upon further reading it looks like this might not be an operating system issue.
Anyway, I don't think I'm going to really get worried about this any further.
Running smartctl -a /dev/disk0 I get:
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 66403
According to the original article he was at 56000 load cycles! I'm at 66403! Yikes!
I bought the machine in June of this year!
Upon further reading it looks like this might not be an operating system issue.
The following things might instead cause aggressive power management settings :
your (laptop) harddrive firmware might have aggressive power management defaults (operating system independent)
your (laptop) BIOS might set your harddrive to use aggressive power management (operating system independent)
you might have enabled laptop-mode in /etc/default/acpi-support (disabled by default) which will set your harddrive to use aggressive power management
Anyway, I don't think I'm going to really get worried about this any further.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
mysqldb on leopard
To get mysqldb working on leopard I found I had to edit _mysql.c and edit out the lines:
#ifndef uint
#define uint unsigned int
#endif
I also had to edit site.cfg and mark threadsafe to False.
#ifndef uint
#define uint unsigned int
#endif
I also had to edit site.cfg and mark threadsafe to False.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Links for 10/29/07 [my NetNewsWire tabs]
- The Little JavaScripter
- Playing with functional programming — Yoan Blanc’s weblog
- ONLamp.com: Building Decision Trees in Python
- rococo - then rubble
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 2
- Semi-automatic offline synchronization of a digital media player - Arve Bersvendsen
- Making a Pylons Blog - Pylons Cookbook - PythonWeb
Sunday, October 28, 2007
"Open in TextMate" from Leopard Finder – The Pug Automatic
"Open in TextMate" from Leopard Finder – The Pug Automatic: "Download OpenInTextMate.zip, extract the file somewhere (I keep it in /Applications/Scripts), then drag it onto the Finder toolbar. You'll need to wiggle it a bit for the toolbar to catch on."
(Via Simon Willisons blog.)
Quicksilver
Quicksilver: "While the Blacktree site is down, grab it over at the MajorGeeks mirror"
I haven't been able to get to the quicksilver site either. I downloaded a copy from macupdate. You still won't be able to get the plugins downloaded and installed, but you can do that later, when they hopefully fix the site!
Update: read here.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Leopard
Just finished installing a clean copy of leopard. Finally an updated version of Python!
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 21:08:09)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> ^D
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 21:08:09)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> ^D
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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Monday, October 15, 2007
APML and OPML
In Nick Bradbury's announcement for APML support he says:
I wonder what the reasons are for attention name space for OPML not catching on?
Reading Dave Winer's blog I came across this bit:
Wouldn't attention data help to fine tune 'actual readership', making the data more useful?
For that reason, I proposed an attention namespace for OPML - basically a way to store attention data within OPML. But that idea also never caught on for various reasons.
I wonder what the reasons are for attention name space for OPML not catching on?
Reading Dave Winer's blog I came across this bit:
As Pete Cashmore on Mashable says, it's because the subscriber numbers don't reflect actual readership. The people who subscribed may not even be aware that they are subscribed. Or put another way, we haven't learned yet how to measure what's valuable, we only have the crudest ways to measure value, so crude as to be meaningless.
Wouldn't attention data help to fine tune 'actual readership', making the data more useful?
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