The looming prospect of liquidity raises new questions, like: How soon does a flat monitor pay for itself in power? Are the cameras built into telephones any good, and do they interface easily with a Mac?
without questions there can be no answers
Is there a standard Unix shell command to pause for a given amount of time? One wouldn’t use this from the prompt, of course, but it might have its uses in scripts. Mine is to open a large number of files (local or Web), but not all at once:
cat list-of-files | xargs slow-open &
where slow-open looks like
#!/bin/sh for i in $* do open $i pause 60 done
It seems like unnecessary overkill to write pause in Python.
In unrelated news — I’ve heard that you can discourage vermin from stealing your pets’ food by setting out a sample spiked with emetic. Have you tried this, does it work? What drug is appropriate for a cat? A neighborhood tom has recently found our cats’ dish, and drops in every night as if he owns the place (if I’m not watching).
Somewhere in MS Word’s infinitely deep dialog boxes there must be a checkbox whose default setting is Do what I explicitly asked you not to do.
The bank sent me a new card.
Daily ATM Withdrawal Limit: $310
Not since 1990 (or was it 1998?) have I seen a cash machine that gives bills smaller than $20.
Since moving back to MacOS from Red Hat, I do miss a few features:
- ability to resize a window by dragging any edge, not only the bottom right corner
- ability to send the current window to the back with a single stroke (a feature of the Sawfish window manager)
- gftp, a good ftp client
I’d love to have an English translation of the German comments in fullgen.c, a program that counts the polyhedra that can be made of pentagons and hexagons (i.e. fullerenes), so that I can modify it. (None of the output modes are quite what I’m after, and I think it may miss some solutions.)
Would I pay for a translation? Well, I’m obscenely broke these days, but I might.
How many MacOS experts read this?
When I launch Grapher, I get a Warning:
Font Conflict
Several characters (Greek letters, e.g.) cannot be displayed correctly because of a conflict between the installed fonts. If you are using MathType, please make sure that version 5.0a or higher is installed.
Font Book’s function “Resolve Duplicates” does not help. Any suggestions?