March 16th, 2008
After my post yesterday about hibernation and secure virtual memory, this TidBits article was brought to my attention. If you set bit 2 in pmset for hibernatemode, your memory will be saved to disk irregardless of wether you have enabled or disabled secure virtual memory. This of course could easily give you the false illusion of having secure virtual memory enabled, whereas it is not treated as such during safe sleep. Read the rest of this entry »
March 15th, 2008
The MacBook that I bought a week ago had one nasty unexpected bit of behavior. Instead of going to sleep when the battery ran empty, it would just shutdown. Shutdown the hard way actually, so all unsaved work was lost. That is unacceptable behavior in my book.
But, thankfully, there is a solution…
Update: See my next post for some more precise explanation of the meaning of the pmset value for hibernatemode. It is nevertheless still recommended to solve he sudden shutdown behavior by disabling secure virtual memory Read the rest of this entry »
January 23rd, 2008
Yesterday evening I attended a talk by the Harvard professor Mansfield on the subject of “manliness” at the “Rode Hoed” theater in Amsterdam. I can not do anything else but conclude that he is a bit crazy. No, actually, fully insane.
There didn’t seem to be much coherent reasoning in his talk at all. In his eyes manliness is what we archetypically see as such: strong, emotionless, rational. Because of feminism us men lost some of those “virtues” and so we should try to go back to restore those. After all, he said, a woman is more suitable for things like cooking and caring, and the man is best at providing and protection. In this day and age women are more and more capable of providing for themselves and as such the role of the man is diminished.
January 22nd, 2008
Whilst the personal finance manager Cha-Ching 1.2.2 (the current version at this moment) is far from a well-polished application yet, its inclusion in the MacHeist bundle made we give it another go.
The most limiting factor was not being able to import the transactions from my bank into it. Cha-Ching does not yet support the MT940 file format. Using a script I came across in a post made by “ed” on the Midnightapps community forum I could easily adjust to allow importing the tab-delimited text files that are also available from ABN Amro.
The script, and a simple app wrapped around it for those who don’t like to doodle on the command line, is available here.
November 21st, 2007
After last weeks false start I am glad to announce that Peacock 0.24 is now available. It comes with some extra new features to make up for the wait.
Note 1: The system requirements are now Mac OS X 10.5 or newer. Version 0.23 is the last version that runs on Mac OS X 10.4.
Note 2: The file format for the library has changed. You need to export your library as JCAMP using version 0.23 and reimport that file using version 0.24.