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Banned of the web

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:18:00 GMT

I’m back online after 4 months without a decent connection.
Ouch.

To make a long story short, the “historical” phone provider which still owns the local loop, put my ADSL line on their network instead of my ISP’s one and took 4 months to fix the problem. Welcome in Belgium. Oh, and they were charging me “Movies on Demand” and other services I never used. Great.

Uninstall Google Desktop

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:12:00 GMT

Google Desktop Mac install fails every time, no matter what I try. It fails just at the end (during post-install) telling me:

What can I say? Thanks. Thanks. ?

The problem is it leaves a lot of files scattered across the system (it even replaces some system files¹ with its own version!), so I made a script to clean the mess left by the failed installs. This is a quick and dirty script with absolutely no warranty whatsoever. I doesn’t deal with running processes, you have to kill them first. This is only tested on my system.

Meanwhile, I’ll wait for a release more “beta” than this “alpha” quality software to test it.

Here is the script: remove_gd.rb.zip (1.5KB)

Update: The Google Desktop 1.0.1 update doesn’t fix my problem…

e.g. the file in /System/Library/Frameworks/ where the /usr/bin/mdimport symlink points to. ↩

Site Changes

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:07:00 GMT

On with my change trend, I redesigned the structure of this site.

Big Changes

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:03:00 GMT

I’m back online, my ADSL line has been transfered today.
My girlfriend, me, our two cats and three trucks (!) of various stuff are now in our new house. I sold my iMac G5 20” and my PowerBook G4 12” and just ordered a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 17”, so I have to move all my digital life too. Much less physical than moving the boxes, but still a lot of work and as I move from PPC to Intel, I have a lot of things to recompile too.

MacSanta is there

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:42:00 GMT

Rogue Amoeba bring us MacSanta¹, a place where every Mac developers can easily offer a 20% discount on their softwares until Xmas.

There is a lot ² of good stuff there.

Here are my favorites, just to name a few: VoodooPad, WebnoteHappy, Yojimbo, FastScripts, Dragster, Fission, Audio Hijack Pro, SpamSieve, GarageSale, Color Schemer.

A good time to support Mac developers, for real.

Just wonder why it’s hosted on a Microsoft-IIS server and powered by ASP.NET. :( ↩
More than 80 100 developers and 200 softwares until now. ↩

Rails out, go WordPress

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:39:32 GMT

I’ve always tried to run this site with Ruby on Rails solutions. I’m not a Rails specialist at all, but I love Ruby since before Rails even existed. I find this language beautiful and I use it for everything I can.

I used Typo then Mephisto. Typo has become a bit of a nightmare, but Mephisto is really nice. The problem is, no matter how hard I try, those RoR blog engines can’t run on my shared server without problem. I still have the SimpleLog and Radiant options, but at this time I’m tired to fight to keep a simple website alive.

Google and my Mac?

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:10:00 GMT

According to the Google Mac blog:

We want to provide great products and services to the tens of millions of Mac users around the world, because it’s the right thing to do, and because Mac users inside and outside Google demand it.

It’s nice that they hire new Mac developers and all, but they are still a lot of things not working at all.

Re: TextMate’s Undo

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:22:00 GMT

Earlier today, I posted a comment to NSLog();’s entry TexMate’s Undo.
Here’s an excerpt of the article:

I typed a line or two, uploaded the changes, and realized I’d edited the wrong file. I hit cmd-Z to undo and… yeah. TextMate users know what I found. Undo only “undoes” one character at a time.

Into the trash TextMate went again.

Erik Barzeski didn’t publish my comment. I don’t understand his decision, so I wanted to post it here.

Humorless TextMaters

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:09:00 GMT

I’m totally flabbergasted by the reactions to the TexMate’s halloween theme, active only for a few days. I mean, can people, supposedly educated (They use Macs and TexMate ;), be so humorless and short sighted?

To make the story short, Allan Odgaard, the TextMate’s dev, changed the icon and added a spider web instead of TextMate’s logo on empty Project window. Big deal.

Fig. 1: Offensive icon.

Almost everybody found it funny, but some found it offensive. Yeah, really, offensive!

TextMate owns KeyCue

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:56:00 GMT

I just took a look at KeyCue, it’s an utility that shows all the shortcuts for an app when you press ⌘ for a few seconds.