Monthly Archives: May 2010

Filed under: Rig of the Week
BusinessWeek is worried that Your Office Chair Is Killing You. “Short of sitting on a spike, you can’t do much worse than a standard office chair,” says Galen Cranz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. …

Filed under: UNIX / BSD, Snow LeopardThe other night I needed to change Wi-Fi networks on a computer that I was connected to via ssh. Just about every page that I found via Google led me to try the exact same thing (type “airport -A”) with one minor pr…

Filed under: Odds and endsSachin Agarwal, cofounder and CEO of Posterous, and former Apple employee who worked on Final Cut Pro, thinks that the Finder is dead. I wouldn’t break out the sackcloth and ashes (or the champagne, depending on your feelings …

Filed under: SoftwareThere are signs of life at Apple’s Download page. If you look at the list on the right Hot Plan 1.5.1, Screenflick 1.6.13, and Volumetrix 2.0.1 were all added on May 4th. Before that, Pasteboard Recorder was updated on March 26th.
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Filed under: UNIX / BSDRudix offers a collection of Unix utilities which do not come with OS X by default.

When setting up a new Mac I always install these Unix utilities: wget, ncftp, lynx with SSL support, and the GNU Core Utilities. I compile them…

Filed under: UNIX / BSDI fully expected that my article on mailsend would lead to several “Why don’t you use use XYZ instead?” replies, and it did. Suggestions included Ruby, Python, iPhone push notifications, and configuring postfix/sendmail.
But one …

Filed under: UNIX / BSD
Update: After this article was written I learned of mstmp which I highly recommend instead of mailsend.

There are times that I want my iMac to be able to email me: when certain scripts run via cron or launchd, when certain even…