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Monday, August 08, 2005My 2.5 year old 12" PowerBook (867mhz/60g/1.1G) needs upgrading. The contenders are, currently, a maxed out 12"Powerbook and a similarly maxed out Thinkpad X41 Tablet. However, there are lots of conflicts that have kept me pushing on with the existing laptop and whining about it, instead of just buying something: Pro-either I've been complaining about this one enough that I should really upgrade to something soon I've done ok on $/year with the current one, it isn't "too soon" to replace it Pro-x41 Portrait mode emacs tablet UI looks interesting (enough so that if a tablet mac came out, I'd probably just preorder one) One unified window system source all the way down, in a way I can actually *fix* things *might* run solaris too
I'd have full control of meta key behaviour again maemo.org looks like a plausible web desktop tablet mode will be nice for reading from even *without* the pen interface actually working big batteries builtin SD
brighter (more daylight-readable?) screen (my new office is particularly well-windowed) Pro-mac mac UI is smooth, apps are well integrated just getting good at PyObjC and appscript *some* things (ppp-over-gprs-over-bluetooth, "share this connection", iTunes Store) are nicely usable without me having to hack on anything. I can go fondle the new machine in a local store target-disk-mode Anti-x41 IBM has one of the worst web-stores ever (ok, so I should use pcconnection instead) A maxed out system (at *least* 60G and at *least* 1G RAM) doesn't seem to exist or be configurable; the only 60G option appears to be 512M and has been at "2 weeks shipping time" for 6 weeks or more we don't actually *know* that the tablet will be accessible under linux I'll spend 2-3 weeks hacking on my new environment (cloning my clipping app, and adding python support to firefox, are part of the minimum work I'd need to do to get away from the mac.) No firewire (but that's OK if I keep the old mac around for video) Anti-mac when things fail, like the safari window ordering, there's no fixing them X11 window-raise likewise ITMS has left me with a bunch of music that I can't cut to mp3-discs without transcoding hassle this mac has kind of fallen apart, the batteries are badly designed not being able to suspend-swap batteries should have been a recall-worthy error, not a reasonable shortcut to ship it on time. no external battery chargers (even the third-party ones don't actually fit the 12" batteries) the 12" gets *very* hot, though in theory a new 12" would be cooler Thursday, August 04, 2005Still haven't found a bugtracker for this app -- with all the noise about this all being "two way", I'm seeing a distinct lack of input channels (not all that surprising, scripting news has been like that for as long as I've seen it) latest update doesn't seem to fix the header-graphic problem, unless what I've found is a new one... hacked it by manually copying a file into ~/OPML/www/blogs/decorations/headerGraphic.jpg, based on reading OPML/Guest Databases/apps/Tools/dotOpml.root. Further reading indcates that the bug is probably that it's looking at the file/creator type - dude, macos9 is dead, welcome to unix... more bugs in http://blogs.opml.org/eichin/2005/08/02 in the meantime Wednesday, August 03, 2005Poking at using OPML for bloggery Need to see if inclusion works Guess not, that was supposed to be a link to another outline. Instead, I see a blank in the 03.OPML window, and a "link to podcast" linking to the raw OPML on the blogpage. However, copying the Untitled.opml into 02.opml does serve to create the page, eventually, so now I can link to it. Tuesday, August 02, 2005experimenting with Dave Winer's OPML tool, to see if it implements any of what we came up with for Foundation, back in 1986. lacks the *editor* features, it's only an outliner with some web-sync over all, not notably more convenient than emacs and some helper modes (like efs) except for the background pushing, I can't tell why I wouldn't just use omnioutliner, given that it opens these files and seems to treat them better. (and rsync could probably handle that...) might be worth factoring that out Missed opportunities a calendar view in the opml app could be done simply by creating an opml listing of the directory, instead of opening the directory in the Finder. OPML might have been a good tool for bug tracking, esp. if inclusion had actually worked with the HTML interface Annoyances nearly-unreadable font
the sample directions are windows-specific ("My Documents") and ~/Documents/OPML isn't created, if that's even right...
the black-and-white retro-beachball is the sign of a sketchy (or worse, non-osx) toolkit Default editor window is goofily small Save As creates a new window every minute or so the screen flickers madly The OPML saved fails to have a style sheet, so opening it in a web browser gets XML noise and nothing useful
in the register dialog, delete wipes the *whole password* instead of the last character emacs style bindings don't work (they do in Safari edit fields, and aren't taken for any other use...) %-` violates mac standards by not cycling windows %-A (select all) is just for the text in one widget - don't seem to have a way to select a whole outline (since inclusion doesn't actually work with the blog window) build rss seems like it should be automatic if I leave a dialog up for a while, then go find a file to drag into it, when I come back, the screen repaints a bunch of times, as if it were catching up on the events it missed. (This might not be what is really happenning, it just feels like it.) I was unable to drag pictures into the blog-banner dialog, nor was I able to open them (they were greyed out, even though they were jpg images.) Looking at dotOpml.root, it looks like it's passing a creator/file type, old-mac-style, to the filedialog prompter, and that's not going to work... categories doesn't seem to do anything - should probably be greyed out until it does No "Open Recent Files", again a Mac Standard The generated html references counters.opml.org, which aborts connections given that url, leading to a "failed to load": http://counters.scripting.com/counters/count.gif?group=blogsOpmlOrg&referer=http%3A//blogs.opml.org/eichin/ |
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