Hotel Gadget

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/01/Of interest mainly to Brandon: the Hotel Magritte screensaver is now known as Hotel Gadget and has been bumped from 1.0 … Continue reading Hotel Gadget

Firefox 2.0 Annoyances

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/01/ One of the things about Firefox 2.0 for the Mac that bugs me (and only the Mac version–the Linux version … Continue reading Firefox 2.0 Annoyances

New tricks, old dog

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/01/Twelve days later, I’m switch back to LaunchBar. I just can’t get QuickSilver to do quite what I want, and my … Continue reading New tricks, old dog

Happy 2007

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/01/I rang in the new year with a fairly mellow evening. It started at our place, eating little squares of meats … Continue reading Happy 2007

Better living through xgrid

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/10/After some trial and error, I learned a few things about the OS X xgrid distributed computing technology: 1) xgridctl and … Continue reading Better living through xgrid

Firefox 2, Electric Boogaloo

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/Okay, so I am slowly trying to migrate myself to Firefox 2.0 on the Mac. I have been using it at … Continue reading Firefox 2, Electric Boogaloo

Thank you very little and thank you very much, Apple

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/So it turns out that there is a bug in OS X's udp socket library. Either that, or this is an … Continue reading Thank you very little and thank you very much, Apple

Fair, Cookies, and NFS

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/Kim left for Country Fair yesterday. For some reason, I thought she was leaving today. I didn't even get to say … Continue reading Fair, Cookies, and NFS

"You've got mail^H^H^H^H numbers to enter"

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/02/Last week, I downloaded and played with the OS X Lost widget. It was actually kind of dumb. The really nice … Continue reading "You've got mail^H^H^H^H numbers to enter"

Broken “Windows”

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2005/09/There is a not so recent article that does a great job of explaining why OS X is more secure than … Continue reading Broken “Windows”