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Author Archives: Graham Lee
A bit of backup script
Good news – there’s a handy tool in OS X called wait4path which can help when writing timed scripts to backup to removable media. Bad news – it [at least in Tiger….] works slightly esoterically – if a path is … Continue reading
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Official Google Mac Blog: Measuring performance of distributed notifications
Official Google Mac Blog: Measuring performance of distributed notifications on the performance of Google Update: “Just how expensive is it? How many notifications can you broadcast per second? As with all Google client products, we want to be good citizens … Continue reading
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Bye bye data, hello…the same data
Of course it happens to everyone, and yesterday evening it happened to me…my home directory became inaccessible. What seems to have happened is that the filevault image containing my ~ became corrupted upon unmounting (though notably, I didn’t do the … Continue reading
All the more reason to like FOSDEM
So it seems that my half-attendance at FOSDEM paid off more than I could have hoped, as I won a year’s subscription to GNU/Linux magazine. The publication is francophonic, so this will be a good chance to improve my command … Continue reading
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Summer of code
GNUstep has been approved for this year’s Google Summer of Code. The title link goes to the GNUstep wiki page outlining possible projects, but I’m sure that if a student had another idea you’d be welcome to talk about it … Continue reading
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Mail::Box++
When most perl developers (I believe there still are one or two in existence) talk of the "cool one-liner" that they wrote, what they actually mean is that they grabbed a crapload of packages from CPAN, invoked a few use … Continue reading
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FOSDEM / GNUstep photos
Just came in on #gnustep. Many photos of the GNUstep booth, dev room and of course the famous GNUstep dinner.
Posted in brussels, FOSDEM, gnustep, pictures
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Apres ca, le FOSDEM
It appears that I’m sat in Terminal B of L’Aeroporte Nationale de Bruxelles, waiting for my flight to board. While there are wirelesses around, the ones to which I can connect seem not to be offering much in the way … Continue reading
Fairly cool update to GNUstep
GNUstep-make now supports arbitrary(-ish) filesystem layouts. While the default is still the /usr/GNUstep layout with the various domains, one of the bundled alternatives is to put everything in FHS-compliant locations. Once that hits a release (which I believe will be … Continue reading
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Where are we going?
Recently, XML seems to have been playing an important role for me…I’ve been working with various XML-RPC frameworks, reviewing a book on XHTML (actually, a book on HTML 4 which occasionally reminds you to close elements) and also dealing with … Continue reading
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