20090612 Bits & bites

Welcome to the first in a long series of posts which sum up several unrelated thoughts. Today we have comments on the latest announcements of Apple regarding Snow Leopard, the failure and success of Bing, and the greatness of WordPress 2.8 and Twitter (sometimes). Come on, the food is ready and the table is set!

20090528 Seven: not Apple’s lucky number

My laptop is running Mac OS X 10.5.7 –i.e., the seventh revision of their overhyped operating system– and Apple still doesn’t know how to deal with network issues properly. If it’s not the dreaded “Your wireless network has been compromised” error, it will be this new and absurd behaviour: you close your laptop’s lid, leave [...]

20080226 Xcode3 oddities

It’s been a couple of interesting days already, got ideas for something fun and I’m using XCode quite furiously. Everything began since I got SDL working with OpenGl (what derived into a Linux version of the famously rotating triangle with pink background), then a couple of weeks later I made some additions which I’m further [...]

20080122 Truly irritating: “Your Wireless network has been compromised”

Believe it or not, here’s yet another stupid feature of Leopard! Whenever it decides it’s a good moment to stop your workflow, a little window will pop up and tell you that because your wireless network has been compromised, it will be disabled for a minute. What it doesn’t tell is that it won’t connect [...]

20080104 “example.php” is a script application which was downloaded from the Internet

… Are you sure you want to open it? Firefox.app downloaded this file today at 10:22 Yet another stupid change in Leopard. Each time I download a php/ruby/python/etc file (which is quite common) I get this dumb question being asked. Even if the file is inside a tgz/zip/tar/rar archive!! I’m pretty sure there might be [...]