Recently in I'm a damn computer geek Category

For some reason I've been listening to music I don't generally listen to.

So I started with Train... and somehow remembered how someone always said "I'm like the song Meet Virginia from Train". So after listening to it, I realized how accurate that was (for best or worst).

There are many reasons why I'd always prefer Drops of Jupiter to Meet Virginia (and the girls they represent):


Aaaaanyway... onto something more interesting...

Being the geek at heart that I am... I decided to get N a copy of Delicious Library. It kind of mixes two things N loves, her macbook and books... and now that I think about it, it also encourages her sense of order.

That app is just impressive. It even works with the built-in camera of my Hackbook:



So this is what the system profiler reads:



No photos for now... have yet to develop a Delta 400+1, a Delta 100, and a Delta 400 120.

...and I'm waiting for a phone call to set up the details for the next six months in my life.

I hate all the red tape required to satisfy this wanderlust.

Hope life catches you well.

J

This is a configuration entry written from Mars Edit.

For now, I have my very own Mexico City entry waiting...

It's far from finished, but well... ya know... Photoshop takes some time... particularly with .NEF's.

It's veeeeery simple to pop your Leopard DVD and just click away "next" or "continue" and voilà... OS X 10.5 for the masses.

And what if for some strange reason the laptop won't read the DVD as startup disk?

When life is not that simple, you can just use a Mac Pro as brain for the smaller, less powerful laptop.

You might even need to end up doing this:



Yes... a huuuge Mac Pro used as a vile Target Disk. That's a very expensive external FireWire disk.

And so, I had to play around with dmg's, open firmware, and single user sessions (sooo in looove with the dark screen, and console appearance)... to finally get HERE:



And just like in American Beauty... I yelled: "I RULE".

Now... after about 35k lines of installation log... here are some useful tips I found. In fact, this is much more for me than you... so I remember stuff. If you couldn't care less... skip to the bottom of the separator...

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• I hated the glossy dock... so I changed it. Since ObjectDock just won't work (haven't looked for it yet), I found a cool console command:
  

  defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
  
  killall Dock

• I also like to know where I am placed every instant I look to the toolbar, so I want to see a full path à la windows:
  

  defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

  ...ah yes... I am in /Developer/Applications/Utilities... that's why the regular system utilities are not here.
  
  Now I get it.
• Front Row. Yes! Awesome idea, Cupertino. But... if I don't have a remote how can I access it?
  
  Simple:
  

  Command + Esc

Thanks to D.W. Hoard at CalTech for his lovely site with OS X tips. You can learn how to change the login shell, and other practical stuff there.

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I'm off for now... I've been having a headache today, and have still many photos to go through.

Hope life catches you well.

J

I was havig some troubles with a WinXP machine at work.

I could not see hidden files, even after activating them in options.

So I had to go to the registry editor and do the following:

Find: HKLM-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Explorer-Advanced-Folder-Hidden-SHOWALL

then DELETE the value CheckedValue in the right window. (Its type should be REG_SZ and data should be 2.)

Finally create a new DWORD value called CheckedValue (same as above, except that the type is REG_DWORD). Modify the value data to 1 (0x00000001)..

Voilà.

Yeah, yeah.. I know... I am slowly transferring entries from my old blog.

Upgrade to MT4 suuuucked.

17'' of pure joy.

Yeah, I know... some know me for being a Microsoft fanboy. Well, I still am.

I know I have more to learn.

I was reading the JavaCC manual and stumbled upon some interesting questions regarding its use. You have to love computer guys' humour when they snap...
 
4.8  Are semantic actions executed during syntactic lookahead?
No.

4.10  Are parameters passed during syntactic lookahead?
No.

4.11  Are semantic actions executed during syntactic lookahead?
No.

4.9  Are nested syntactic lookahead specifications evaluated during syntactic lookahead?
No!
This can is a bit surprising.

4.10  Are parameters passed during syntactic lookahead?
No.

4.11  Are semantic actions executed during syntactic lookahead?
No.

4.12  Is semantic lookahead evaluated during syntactic lookahead?
Yes. It is also evaluated during evaluation of LOOKAHEAD( n ), for n > 1.

4.13  Can local variables (including parameters) be used in semantic lookahead?
Yes to a point.