Computers: March 2004 Archives
Woooooo! 
As mentioned previously, I had wrist surgery this month. The doctor removed a piece of damaged cartilage (TFCC) between my ulna and hand. I am recovering very well. It was two weeks ago yesterday, and I already have 95% motion or so. It still hurts, but it hurts significantly less every day. I have been typing all week with both hands, and yesterday played guitar (though not so much with the barre chords).
Speaking of guitars, since I've been unable to play much (even before the surgery, as I had a lot of pain), I've spent more time on preparing to play. Our spare room is now a music room, with a Yamaha digital piano, an iMac, microphones, monitors, etc. I cleaned up my old Epiphone strat-style guitar and have begun the process of making some changes to it (I put a Kahler tremolo on it some years ago, and am now putting in Fender electronics). I ordered a Washburn X40 guitar yesterday. I need to restring my Martin acoustic. A friend of mine has an Ibanez Road Star II bass to round out my collection (I first played the cello, then moved to bass guitar, but have not had a bass in 10 years or more). When my wrist is fully healed, I am gonna get back into playing and recording.
Speaking of guitars, since I've been unable to play much (even before the surgery, as I had a lot of pain), I've spent more time on preparing to play. Our spare room is now a music room, with a Yamaha digital piano, an iMac, microphones, monitors, etc. I cleaned up my old Epiphone strat-style guitar and have begun the process of making some changes to it (I put a Kahler tremolo on it some years ago, and am now putting in Fender electronics). I ordered a Washburn X40 guitar yesterday. I need to restring my Martin acoustic. A friend of mine has an Ibanez Road Star II bass to round out my collection (I first played the cello, then moved to bass guitar, but have not had a bass in 10 years or more). When my wrist is fully healed, I am gonna get back into playing and recording.
Mac-Glue-1.19 has been released. Download it from the CPAN or SF.net.
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* v1.19, Tuesday, March 23, 2004Posted using release by brian d foy.
Made arrayrefs work better in some cases, e.g.:
$glue->obj(file => \@files)->open;
Mac-Carbon-0.66 has been released. Download it from the CPAN or SF.net.
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* v0.66, 23 March 2004Posted using release by brian d foy.
Fix _Unix2Mac to be more robust, by making it more limited: it must point
to a file (existing or not) in an existing directory. This limitation is
not unusual, and it is extremely rare that you would want to pass a path
to a file in a directory that did not already exist.
I was in the Finder, in the folder /tmp/502/, and TemporaryItems was highlighted, and by accident I typed cmd-shift-l. That is tied to a service to search for the currently selected thing in Google. The actual path is "/private/tmp/502/TemporaryItems", so Google looked for that, and it found exactly one hit: a mailing list post from me!
Dave Winer wants Atom to join forces with RSS. I pointed out the fact, in the comments, that this defeated part of the point of Atom, which is to get away from Dave. He deleted my comment.
At least he is interested in having an honest discussion about the real issues involved. (*cough*) I know it doesn't sound like personality conflicts are real issues, but in Dave's case, they are. Without Dave and his intolerable personality, Atom would not exist. The Atom developers would already have worked with him to turn RSS into something better, instead of starting a separate project.
To have any discussion of merging the projects without discussing Dave's personality and his influence over the final result makes no sense whatsoever.
At least he is interested in having an honest discussion about the real issues involved. (*cough*) I know it doesn't sound like personality conflicts are real issues, but in Dave's case, they are. Without Dave and his intolerable personality, Atom would not exist. The Atom developers would already have worked with him to turn RSS into something better, instead of starting a separate project.
To have any discussion of merging the projects without discussing Dave's personality and his influence over the final result makes no sense whatsoever.
Mac-Carbon-0.65 has been released. Download it from the CPAN or SF.net.
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* v0.65, 9 March 2004Posted using release by brian d foy.
DirectoryCopy.c and FileCopy.c in MoreFiles have issues with G5 optimization
flags; ignore those flags for compiling MoreFiles. (John Siracusa)
Clean up tests, including turning GUI tests off by default (add
MAC_CARBON_GUI=1 to `make test` to turn on) and ability to turn
off sound (add MAC_CARBON_SOUND=0 to turn off). Affected tests
include MacPerl, Notification, Sound, and Speech.
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