Web App integration

Just watched the above demo of box.net, and the integration with web services is really interesting. You don't need any space on your own computer. You can do everything online. Isn't this really game changing?

LinuxHaxor.net » What Happens When You Do “sudo rm -rf /”?

LinuxHaxor.net » What Happens When You Do “sudo rm -rf /”?: ""

firefox_corruption

firefox_corruption
Originally uploaded by awasim

I've been seeing this sort of corruption all day today in firefox. Not really sure whats causing it all of a sudden. Its firefox v2.0.0.11. I haven't added any extensions or anything. I've restarted the browser.

Update: its happening in safari as well for this page. Must be something wrong with this web page.

objective-c hello world

I just started learning objective-c and cocoa a few days ago, and here is how I wrote an overly complicated objective-c "hello world" application.

MyClass.h:

#import <objc/Object.h>

@interface MyClass : Object {	
}

- (void) sayHello;

MyClass.m:

#import "MyClass.h"
#import <stdio.h>
@implementation MyClass : Object {
	
}

- (void) sayHello { printf("Hello, World!\n"); }

main.m:

#import <objc/objc.h>
#import "MyClass.h"

int main() {
	MyClass *anObject;
	
	anObject = [[MyClass alloc] init];
	[anObject sayHello];
	
	return 0;
}

I compiled this using the following:

gcc -o hello -lobjc MyClass.m main.m

Windows Vista SP1 x64 EFI support and Intel Macs

If you have been looking forward to trying a Windows install without using a utility like bootcamp, think again. The BIOS was replaced by the Extensible Firmware Interface on Intel Macs. Even though Windows Vista SP1 x64 has EFI support it won't yet work on Intel Macs:

Microsoft has announced that they plan to support native UEFI 2.0 booting in a future service pack for the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. Presently, that excludes all Intel Macs because Apple’s firmware is based on EFI 1.10, not UEFI 2.0. Core Solo and Core Duo models are 32-bit only, and have no chance of using this, ever. Core 2 based models could work in the future if Apple releases UEFI-compatible firmware updates for them.

Friends and Google Reader

Google readers friends feature has been frustrating me all day. All day Robert Scoble has had 25 items and growing, yet when I click on him or all of friends nothing shows up. Please fix this, its frustrating.

Firefox and Dialogs

When signing into my feedburner account, the following dialog showed up:



If I click enter, which button will it default to? Thats a bad dialog.

quicksilver wins over the dock

I hid the dock in an effort to use quicksilver more. I haven't seen the dock in days. The much touted leopard "Stack" feature on the dock is useless to me. Maybe I shouldn't get too comfortable with quicksilver though.

I'm inclined to encourage users to move over to the more stable and well supported alternatives like LaunchBar. Right now QS 54 (ed: the current build) accomplishes everything that I really need, the problem is stability, which for some reason most people seem to be ignoring.

QS is open source, so their is hope.

Cocoacast and the new Leopard dev tools

OS X developer tools have been updated to Xcode version 3.0, Interface Builder 3.0 and Objective-C 2.0 in Leopard. I've been learning OS X development, and I found cocoacast that has three screencasts that cover these changes.

Episode 34 covers Interface Builder 3.0.

Episode 35 covers xcode 3.0.

Episode 36 covers objective-c 2.0.

Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data

via Youtube.com

new hak5 episode

Watching a new hak5 episode which can be downloaded from here. I just started watching, but it looks like a really good episode!

In this episode Simon Jakesch from Zenoss joins us to talk about the open source network management suite. Wess shows us the science behind the infrared camera mod. Chris Gerling hacks the Nokia 770 Internet tablet. Darren builds a one-click remote assistance package to help save the holidays, and Will Coppola drops by with an EVDO antenna mod sure to boost signal. Plus details on the upcoming Hak5Live / meetup at the East Coast LAN as always trivia. Grab some hax0rflakes, it’s time for a heavy dose of technolust.

bubble

:D

Django/Bootcamp problems

I first started my day thinking I'd get some django programming done. I created a new django project, got the admin module installed, went to check the admin page, and got an error that django had problems loading the template. For some reason django can't see the installed template file (I was using OS X Leopard). After mucking about for a bit I gave up for the moment. Anybody else have this problem?

I wanted to install bootcamp with windows on my macbook pro. Installed windows, installed bootcamp drivers, had a blue screen while drivers installed. Rebooted, and reinstalled drivers. Rebooted, started windows update, and it says windows is already updating. The progress meter sits their at 0% for half an hour. I decided to reboot. Windows says do not reboot or power down, installing update 1 of 1. Its been sitting their for half an hour!

I guess I won't be getting much done today. :(