Thanks for all the fish.
Friday, January 6th, 2012My workplace is now an aquarium, too.
"It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." –Antoine de Saint Exupéry
My workplace is now an aquarium, too.
Building two low cost large dimension tables (3m length each) out of roof battens with ~400 screws invisibly in between. A nice deviation in hardware building from daily software.
In collaboration with Mereo. Original concept by Lorenz Kocher.
Having worked a week with a new MacBook I have noted a few downsides over previous models:
I just discovered the great new Google Patent Search. I hope I don’t get sued by IBM because of the “Method and system for a user interface for remote FTP hosts” patent.
I finally managed to merge the current trunk of Vienna into my prototype branch for some experiments with the user interface, especially moving away from the metal look. You can download a snapshot of this prototype build here. Please note that this build is not official at all, has had only very limited testing and is not meant for daily use!
Apple made available the slides of WWDC 06 on iTunes. It works by authenticating you at developer.apple.com/adconitunes/ and then tells the web browser ot open a URL with a itmss scheme to be opened in iTunes. But if you want to access this content with a low bandwidth internet connection (as I usually have here in Pakistan) you often get timeouts and the downloads then fail to resume (See the nice error message below). It also opens the authentication web page in your web browser all over again. I know it is difficult to handle connections with a low latency properly, but then wouldn’t it be much easier to simply distribute these PDF slides at connect.apple.com (as in previous years). Why download PDF files in a proprietary audio player anyway? KISS please.