Macosx
- Feb 16 2013 - iTerm2 vs Terminal.app (iTerm2 FTW!) ... I just switched from the built-in Terminal.app on Mac OS X (which I've always liked) toiTerm2. Here's some of what I like about iTerm2 : borderless windowsbetter scrolling and mouse support (or better defaults?) I can use my scrollwheel in vim by default and clicking on a word moves the cursor which is a nice bonus (behaves like unix) feels faster; I was having issues with Terminal which seemed to be related to using Microsoft's Consolas font coupled with transparency and blur which was causing ever so slight but hugely annoying key lag in vim.
- Dec 14 2009 - google chrome software updates make everything else feel broken ... I am growing more and more annoyed at the Apple’s and the Adobe’s of the world who are constantly interrupting my work to tell me that there are updates waiting for me to install. Why do I have to manage this? Yes I know that I can go in there and tweak the settings so that I don’t get annoyed… but why should I even have to do that? I would need to do that across every user account on every machine I use on a regular basis!
- Dec 31 2008 - 1 TB drive won't format using Disk Utility ... I just bought a 1TB external HD, the “Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus” this weekend on sale at London Drugs. A bit of an impulse purchase but I’ve been digiizing all of our dvd’s lately into iTunes and had completely run out of space… The drive has a bunch of automated backup features I’ll never use, so I skipped all the software and went to use the drive directly from Mac OS X.
- Sep 6 2008 - frequent beachballs in mac os x caused by bad fonts ... I’ve been testing the latest nightly builds of firefox 3.1 over the past few days and while generally impressed with the performance improvements in javascript was quite disapointed that it was causing my iMac to go into frequent hangs where I would see the spinning beachball of death for many seconds before I could continue working again. It became bad enough that I finally had to ditch my firefox testing efforts.