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Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…

applescript.

by Rob Friesel

For Pete … following our conversation the other day about AppleScript, here’s a brief concoction for your noodle: (* first, let’s launch some apps for fun: *) (* we’ll start w/ just Mail *) tell application “Mail”   activate end tell (* then we’ll launch Safari and size the window *) tell application “Safari”   activate   repeat […]

not so fast…

by Rob Friesel

Pulling a little “hold on there, tiger” action on myself. Don’t want to jump the gun with all this hot dual-boot action here… (and not because “I have enough problems” with Detonator-3 to begin with … hardly!) While I’m smitten with the Fedora Project … this whole Ubuntu thing threw a curve at me. So […]

Detonator-3 redux.

by Rob Friesel

My battle with The Computer Store From Hell ends today with what I’d like to consider a stalemate but am not too insecure to admit is really a loss on my part. “You’re outside of the return dates now so we can’t process the exchange on the power supply.” *le sigh* I want to think […]

geekery.

by Rob Friesel

Psst… Hey dad, it goes a little something like this: wget -m –progress=bar http://***…***…***/photos/ Of course, Cygwin w/ wget is required… But, hey, I did it on the PC. Now Playing: Boards of Canada “Alpha and Omega”

WWDC2004.

by Rob Friesel

Finally got around to watching the WWDC 2004 keynote. Impressive. Do I think Tiger will be as phenomenal as Panther? Not really. But then again, I’ve eased down off of so much of the Panther innovations (e.g., “love the *idea* of FileVault” and “Sidebar is cool but not the greatest thing ever…”) But hot damn […]