Unix Swiss Army Knife – Stupid bash Tricks – has a few often used patterns.
A More User-Friendly Direction – on making a more usable computer. Unless you think that someone should be expected to know that they need to patch their DCOM RPC interface when all he/she wants to do is get some work done.
Making an ISO out of a DMG file: the easiest way I found was to mount the DMG and then run mkisofs (from Fink). Apple’s Disk Copy will happily convert from ISO to DMG, but not vice versa.
*update*: Gabe points out that one can enable Disk Copy’s expert mode, which allows converting to a few other image types (although not ISO).
- Removing bias in collaborative editing systems
- More Rubik’s Cube links: How to get really fast., has a couple of quicktimes showing ridiculously fast cube rotation; part of Swedish champ Lars Petrus’ tutorial site
Ian Clarke is leaving America (Cory, is it Godwin’s Law if it might be relevant?). Ian’s recent posts.
To keep up to date on what’s happening, keep an eye on Patriotwatch
Mathematical twist reveals the agony of back pain
The first comprehensive model of the human spine is challenging our assumptions about the causes of back pain. Contrary to the idea that spinal injuries are caused by a combination of compression, bending, tension and shear forces, the 3D animated model suggests many injuries are the result of quick twists of the vertebrae, making the joints between them rotate.
Unpatched IE security holes (currently 21 unpatched vulnerabilities, including some real doozies)
Been doing some DHTML GUI work recently. One way to do it is to, as ppk suggests, Keep It Simple. Of course, what I really want is a window manager that does all the basic GUI stuff, including, if possible, handling flexible variable-resulotion window positioning/resizing.
Adding more comments as I work with these…
- DynAPI – v3.0 is almost out; it sports comprehensive functionality, impressive browser support and is LGPL’d. On the other hand, it’s pretty massive, I’m iffy about their RPC library, and the documentation for the new version is a bit spotty currently
- netWindows – a neat looking framework, w/ some very slick features, AFL – still looking into it, yet to test; some development going on, but looks partially stalled out
- Bindows – thought I’d give it a mention; Erik, one of the WebFX guys has been working on it, and it looks like it has some great features, most prominently a complete Swing/WinForms like GUI toolkit. Alas, it’s slow as all get out, and currently IE 5.5+ only.
Of course, the current functionality I need is pretty simple, so I’ll string together some simple libs first and see if there might be a more logical way to tie all this together…
- The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator – JS; I’m sure it could be made into a bookmarklet for that JeffK flavor all the time
- Dan Knight’s Rubik’s Cube page – has a page on how he got into it, techniques, and avoiding RSI among other things, as well as speed-solving video. Also, how to “Lube Your Cube,” heheh.
- Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad – this is actually really useful. I wonder if it’s available in list form.
- Greg’s Digital Portfolio – some very skilled photoshoppery