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Monthly Archives: September 2006

viewing blags and wobsites

30 September 2006

Remember a while ago when I was indignant about RSS readers? Well, Google just updated their Reader and it’s incredibly good. When Google Reader first came out, its interface was incredibly disappointing. They just didn’t capture my reading experience, but this new iteration hits it squarely on the head. Meanwhile, although [...]

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money well spent

22 September 2006

I just came across a directory of old assignments from my freshman year of college. I think it sums it up nicely.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 joe users 25088 1998-10-27 22:55 AC Power lab.doc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 joe users 23040 1998-10-28 06:34 bryAClab.doc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 joe users 27136 1998-10-08 00:04 bullshit survey self-portrait.doc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 [...]

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audio algebra

20 September 2006

Interesting iTunes/OS X/Airport Express bug I ran into today:
If your library is on computer A in user account X and you’re playing from computer B to an Airport Express location L, if you switch to user account Y on A, the music stops playing and nothing will get it to work again until you switch [...]

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your network can’t save you now

19 September 2006

What amazes me more than the foolish cell phone companies trying to extract whatever money they can from their customers for lame services is that the user interfaces on the phones themselves still suck terribly.
The very first cell phone I got — in 2000 — was some sort of Sanyo from Sprint. It was [...]

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18 September 2006

I just released Beagle 0.2.10. The last version shipped with an annoying bug in which file removals weren’t showing up in the clients. Whoops.

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the case of the amazing missing mp3s

7 September 2006

My blog seems to be quickly becoming a series of posts about debugging various tricky Beagle issues. Is this useful and interesting to people?
Here’s another one that with the help of a great bug reporter I tracked down yesterday: bug 354161 - Too Large Music Directory To Index. The reporter had a directory [...]

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bacardi and cola: it gets the job done

6 September 2006

Way back in the day I worked on a product called Red Carpet. It was a software management tool for Linux, and later it morphed into a system for doing centralized management of systems across a network. I could lament about how great it was but how misunderstood it was and how it [...]

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my alderman is going to hear about this

6 September 2006

I was rudely awaken this morning by jackhammering at 6:30 this morning. In what world do people live that they think jackhammering that early is acceptable? I realize that I am not an early riser, but give me a break. It’s as if I was living in Brookline all over again. [...]

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1 September 2006

Beagle 0.2.9 is out. This is a bug fix release, and includes the fix for the performance degredation I previously posted about.

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