tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68113369686192764202012-01-26T18:06:27.143+01:00Running away from the comfort zoneH. Mijail Antón Quileshttps://profiles.google.com/117205053310214272514noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6811336968619276420.post-31067591887331173452012-01-25T22:37:00.002+01:002012-01-25T22:38:22.107+01:00

Gruber, de Daring Fireball, escribió hace tiempo sobre la posibilidad de crear URLs que enlazan a mensajes en tu buzón de Mail.app . Y es algo tremendamente útil y que no veo publicado en español, así que aquí pongo un pequeño resumen. Primero: de qué se trata exactamente? Pues que es un enlace que, cuando clicas en él, se abre Mail.app y te muestra el mensaje concreto que sea, en medio de tu

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Safari on desktop and iOS has a feature called "Reading List". It is a way to store URLs in iCloud, synchronize them between Safaris, and mark them as read or not. Somewhat like Instapaper maybe. I was a bit surprised that there is no Chrome or Firefox extensions for tapping into Safari's Reading List. So I wanted to try poking a bit into the protocol, maybe something interesting would appear

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I recently installed Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and found that it already had drivers for the Huawei E220 3G modem. But the drivers are 32 bit, so they won't work for machines which use a 64 bit kernel. And there seem to be no 64 bits drivers, so the only solution for now is booting in 32 bit kernel mode (pressing 3 and 2 when booting). I seriously doubt that Huawei are going to publish

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Looks like tcpflow doesn't see connections between local interfaces. After a bit of digging, looks like such connections are "routed internally by the kernel", at least in Linux. And there are patches for Linux to force those packets out of one interface and in from another, but even that is only useful if you have an external network connecting both interfaces (looks like a simple crossover

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I first thought about this as a lsof substitute, but no, it's more like a primitive / simple FIleMon/fs_usage. It shows the executable and the file it opened. Could be improved, of course.Dtrace is amazing. sudo dtrace -qn 'syscall::open*:entry{ printf("%s %s\n",execname,copyinstr(arg0)); }' fs_usage shows much more information... but is not a one-liner ;P

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Typically, when I start seeing a film, I only have enough time to quickly get some subtitles, try to make them more-or-less work with the film at hand and ... that's it. So, lots of repetitive, rushed fixes but no long-term solutions. But this time I got sick of it and tried to get to understand the problem. Which is: Polish subtitles don't work with mplayer, or at least not with the mplayer

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Tcpflow 1.0.2, as built with MacPorts, doesn't work when net expressions are used. But 1.0.6 does work. I already submitted a new portfile so it should be available soon.

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Los drivers que Toshiba publicó para el G450 en el 2008 son sólo 32 bits. Si tu Mac OS X Lion corre el kernel a 32 bits, posiblemente funcionarán. Pero si ordenador corre el kernel a 64 bits, lo cual creo que ya será la mayoría de macs, esos drivers no funcionarán. Y Toshiba no tiene pinta de  que vaya a publicar nuevos drivers, porque ya eran lentos con cosas de soporte cuando el móvil era nuevo

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I recently changed computers and got a MacBook Pro which boots the kernel in 64 bit mode. The problem is, the only drivers Toshiba published for the G450 modem are 32 bit only (published on 2008). So the only solution for now is booting in 32 bit kernel mode (pressing 3 and 2 when booting). I seriously doubt that Toshiba are going to publish updated drivers; they were already rather unsupporting

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socat (1.7.2.0 as of this writing) doesn't compile with the clang, the standard compiler in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (10.7.2 as of this writing). It does compile if instead of clang one uses for example llvm-gcc-4.2.2. The developer reports that this is a bug; only gcc is supported in socat, but there are compatibility fallbacks for other compilers. Only, the fallback was missing on the file that

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I didn't find a way to grow the boot partition on a live system (I think OS X has been able to do that for some time now?). I used BootIt, free for this kind of partition work. Quick download, quick self-install on a USB stick, reboot, unnervingly unresponsive while working, but finally problem-free. In my case I was growing the boot partition into free space. And this XP uses some Intel SATA

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~/MacPorts/ports$ sudo port install socat --->  Computing dependencies for socat could not read "/Users/mija/MacPorts/ports/sysutils/socat/Portfile": permission denied I was having strange problems to use a locally edited portfile. Turns out the permissions were wrong in a directory in the path; each of the directories should have at least o+rx permissions, and strangely my $HOME had none of

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These multimeters are in fact pocket oscilloscopes. Quite an interesting package. And the possibility of interfacing via USB with a computer should multiply the possibilities. Alas, the included software could hardly be crappier. (why do so many manufacturers do something justifiably interesting and then neuter it by blowing up what should be a minor part of the whole?) At work we have a number

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Ordenando cosas viejas me he encontrado con un problema interesante que tuvimos en los tiempos de gvSIG (hace unos 4 años)... Problema: si se intenta descomprimir el ZIP en un Windows, nos encontramos con la incapacidad de Windows de crear ficheros con path completo de más de 260 chars. Esto sucede tanto en NTFS como en FAT, y es un problema (por ejemplo) si se quiere descomprimir el ZIP en un

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This was difficult to find, so I guess any links will help. So here it is: a polish translation of Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford (2005). With even some comments on translation accuracy.

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Just realized that Steve Jobs' trajectory could be somewhat compared to the Monomyth: the fall from grace when fired from Apple, the struggles in NeXT and Pixar which ended nicely but were quite a bet, the coming back to the beleaguered Apple (look, that infamous sentence!) and the multiple concurrent struggles (Mac vs Windows, iPod vs constellation of MP3 players, iPhone vs telephone industry,

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Escribo esto por si alguien intenta googlear sobre Antispasm (yo!) en el canal #mac en irc.irc-hispano.org, o en canalmac.es . Después de unos cuantos años allí, y de incluso plantearme escribir en canalmac.es , la cosa se ha puesto inaguantable hasta el punto de tener que escribir esto. Si buscas consejo o ayuda para algún problema, primero que nada (y para mantenerme en mi línea): has

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How to know which processes are paging to/from disk (as opposed to other VMM management) in OS X, and how much exactly: sudo dtrace -n maj_fault'{@[execname] = count()}' reference (with examples and other options): http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/vminfo+Provider I had been meaning to look for ways to do this, and tried some of the tools included in OS X (Activity Monitor, top, Instruments

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(express post, too much time spent on this but too much work spent to let it slip without benefitting someone else) 1.1.6 is not released, had to be hg-cloned. In fact, the repository looks like the 1.1.6 tag was at some moment added but then deleted?? That branch also has the latest video stabilization, no idea yet if it is also in 1.2 Can be compiled. Get the hg repository via hg itself, not

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Últimamente me he encontrado a gente hablando de usar SpinRite para recuperar discos duros (incluso en Macs!), así que quizás ayude si cuento mi experiencia. Hace unos años (quizás 5?), el disco duro de mi iMac G3 de por entonces empezó a fallar. El ordenador se quedaba de repente congelado, sin responder a nada durante alrededor de 10 minutos, y luego de repente continuaba funcionando como si

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A test I thought could be interesting to get some (diffuse) idea of the processing power of the iPhone 4: Mijails-iPhone:~ mobile$ uname -a Darwin Mijails-iPhone 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Wed Oct 20 20:14:45 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.58.28~3/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8930X iPhone3,1 arm N90AP Darwin Mijails-iPhone:~ mobile$ openssl speed To get the most accurate results, try to run this program

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(spoilers ahead! :P) I came out of watching Moon thinking that Blade Runner, if you only thought a bit about it, covered the same ground, and in a better way. Moon is a corollary, a footnote to the world of Blade Runner. And had the same feeling of fake-ish, exercise-ish, not-really-well-thought-to-the-end-ish that for example had Gattaca: there are a number of small details that are just left

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A number of times now some friends have asked me for advice about starting "some salsa or dance course", and of course they are surprised when I ask back what kind of salsa. I too had no clue that there were different kinds when I started. So I'll write the answers down so next time I can just point people here. For history and dry reading I could just point them to Wikipedia, but I know that it

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I went to the sky slopes, and arranged for a normal one hour session with an instructor. It had been about 15 years since I last skied and even then I had little experience; so even though I could manage myself, I could definitely use a little teaching. So the instructor came and asked what I wanted to learn. "Good question", I thought*. Feeling stupid, I asked what were the options. She offered

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(sounds better than Aikikizomba... ;P) The Bachaturo festival was not exactly very well organized. In fact if I had came from far away I guess I would be pretty pissed off. I've heard that last year it was much better, and that this edition was problematic because it had to be rescheduled after the Smolensk plane accident... Anyway, the high point for me has been Kwenda. He was funny and

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3 months ago, I started a Salsa course.  In fact it was an unexpected and (supposedly) quick experiment. I had played percussion for some years in my hometown's music band; that was about 10 years ago. So when I saw a short weekend minicourse in a dance school about how to play latin percussion in salsa music, I went in. At the moment, someone I knew was asking me to play percussion in their

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I had an .mp4 video file (with audio and video), and wanted to extract the audio to play it independently. (Sometimes the song version used in some music video is better than the original song!) That can be done in a number of ways; with Quicktime it is more or less immediate: Window, movie properties, select audio, extract, File, export. But I wanted to do it without recompressing, since the

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"It's easy to see our problems and the solution to the problems that we have now. But it is very hard to see how that solution is going to turn on us, and the new problem that it's going to be." From the interview to Roger Williams ("localroger") in the Gday World podcast. He is the author of "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect", a "short" (more than 100 pages long) story available online. Very

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I just bought a stereo bluetooth headset (A2DP, the works), planning to use it to hear the sound from the PS3 while gaming, to avoid having to look for some long audio cable for my normal headphones. Bad news: the headset works, BUT it is only used for voice communication; not for the actual music or sfx from games. Which is something I had not seen mentioned anywhere, and had me chasing around

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Generar un documento RTF simple (sin tablas ni imágenes, por ejemplo) pero con cosas interesantes (fuentes, colores, párrafos, incluso estilos!) es muy fácil. En inglés hay una pequeña guía en http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/RTF-Writer/lib/RTF/Cookbook.pod, pero no llega a meterse en estilos. También está la especificación completa del formato RTF en la web de Microsoft. Yo necesitaba algo

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After a couple of too-close-together performance-competition-between-browsers thingies, I decided to make my very own quick & dirty benchmark of current browsers. Webkit-based at least, although soon I'd like to at least try again Firefox; it's been months since I abandoned it for Webkit itself, due to a multitude of small problems, some of them caused by myself (much more than a hundred tabs

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Smart Crash Reporter es un Input Manager creado por Unsanity (creadores de los "haxies").La historia completa está en http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/smart_crash_reports . El resumen de la historia en español es que los Input Managers son en teoría una forma de añadir al sistema formas de entrada de texto. Pero en la práctica, los Input Managers pueden hacer muchas más cosas. Se cargan

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...and looks like the job of the programmer is to avoid being he himself another level (the last one?) of indirection. (at least the interesting programmer jobs) (And I have a feeling that that is the reason I should get to finish the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" course) (On the other hand... overengineering?)

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I bought recently a Tchibo Cafissimo espresso machine. I had been pondering about Nespresso, Zespresso and some other, but this one finally convinced me. There was preciously little information online about this particular machine, so I thought I could help someone. These are the things I would have liked to know before buying it and/or which helped me decide. My requirements were coffee

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Sharpening my tools... I am having to translate a horribly old program (1992?, DOS' Turbo Pascal)... in german, to make it funnier... to a terribly old environment (Delphi 4, circa 1999). To think that I was complaining about how outdated Borland's C++ Builder 5 felt... oh my. I guess/hope/fear that later there will be a more modern target. But that will be easy, given that at that moment I

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I remembered something like "the eyes still looked like asking if, whatever it was the universe was doing to him, would it please stop doing it". Douglas Adams, but ... where, what exactly? Some googling shows that the correct fragment was from "So long, and thanks for all the fish": "Only the eyes still said that whatever it was the Universe thought it was doing to him, he would still like it

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Finally one day I force myself to get almost 8 solid hours of sleep. Too many things to do, big and small; to many cracks for them to slip through. Enough times of wanting to stop and... think... and... feel. In the morning I find Mail.app crashing. WTF? I remember about haxies, inputmanagers, the works. Should be clean, but recently found and deleted an unwelcome Smart Crash Reporter. Check.

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Por fin me he dedicado a jugar un poco con el driver oficial. El resultado esperado, como Nexus había comentado antes en otro post, era que el G450 sólo funcionase si estaba enchufado desde el arranque. Pero en mi caso era peor: ni siquiera así funcionaba. Además he visto por la red más gente con el mismo problema. El "Toshiba PC Tool.app" que se instala junto al driver simplemente dice que no

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Finally I have had the chance to play a bit with the official driver. Remember, the expected result was that it would only work if plugged since the booting of the Mac. That would be unfunny, but in my case it was even worse: as a lot of other people has reported, it didn´t seem work at all. The "Toshiba PC tool.app" reported that no modem was found, and no USB disk appeared, even though I tried

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Looks like finally Toshiba published a Mac OS X driver for their G450 3G modem. The only problem is, it doesn't seem to work. It installs, but nothing else happens. And the Toshiba PC Tool app it installs always complains that the modem can't be found. I'll take it as a warning that I'm letting too much time pass by without working on the subject... although I still think about it and read

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No tengo claro que sea útil estar repitiendo cosas en inglés y en español, así que he añadido traducción automática via Google Translation (que me parece que va bastante mejor que otros traductores online...). Gracias a Labnol! He añadido banderita y traducción polaca e inglesa (banderitas gracias a flags.net), y autodetección del lenguaje original. Así, no importará que las entradas originales

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Pues parece que finalmente en Toshiba se han decidido a publicar un driver para Mac OS X para el modem 3G. Lo curioso es que a mí no me funciona. Se instala, pero... no veo que haga nada de nada. Me lo tomaré como un aviso de que llevo mucho tiempo sin avanzar el tema. Pero sigo pensando en ello y tocando los libros cuando el resto de la vida me deja... Ya he acabado el anterior curso de

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PyQt4 (MacPorts' py25-pyqt4) was causing a Bus Error. Some previous problems with the Python 2.5 installed by MacPorts made me think it could be some dependency with the native library called by the Python module; that is what I think that was also happening with py25-hashlib, which caused an error about being unable to find _md5 or some such, and which got fixed by uninstalling MacPorts'

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No recuerdo las palabras exactas, pero me preguntó cuándo venía el autobús 111. Hasta hoy siempre que me dirigían la palabra directamente decía "lo siento, no hablo polaco". Pero ya me había propuesto intentar responder algo útil la próxima vez... así que respondí. — Przypraszam... sto jedenasty? (perdón, ¿111?) — Tak — pareció sorprendida. Quizás notó mi pronunciación o hice la pregunta de

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Empezó resultándome difícil de entender y de acertar la pronunciación del polaco. Pero ahora los polacos con los que intento hablar me dicen que pronuncio muy bien... y todo se debe a un pequeño truco que se me ocurrió para simplificar las normas que me daban en clase. Es muy simple, así que a ver si le sirve a alguien más (y con esto comienzo mi contribución a la mente global ;P). Se aplica a

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Resulta interesante que, sin intentarlo demasiado (el argumento es más un cuentecito que otra cosa), Wall-E acabe siendo realista (e interesante) de sobra como para olvidarse de los trocitos más simplones. E incluso se puede decir que lleva mensaje. He tenido que leer alguna crítica para darme cuenta de que Wall-E no habla en toda la película. Aunque claro, la he visto en polaco, y los trozos en

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Interesting how without trying too hard to be realistic (the argument is more of a little fairy tale without much pretenses) it gets realistic and interesting and funny enough to forget the most simplistic parts. And to pack some message, too. I loved the final credits. A beautiful and optimistic alternative to the new human society of Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth, or the one in Douglas Adams

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Half-assed regurgitation of whatever anyone said before. "Hey, but I heard someone said...". People turning into instantant experts and talking out of their asses and wild-guessing and pontificating, even when (or because?) no one knows yet what really happened. It's SO easy to want to change things a posteriori. "Periodists" that know no better than asking familiars of the dead about their

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I started the blog at wikyblog.com, since I had some plans about the wiky part... although mostly in a single-writer way. But there were some problems (as a matter of fact, this weekend the whole domain has gone offline!, as in "domain-expired-offline"...), so let's see what happens here. The other option would be a WordPress blog, maybe even in my own hosting, but... I have more pressing things

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About 3 weeks ago, I had to buy the 3G modem Toshiba G450 because Polish operator Play would not let me get the plan I wanted without it. A few hours later, I had to accept that there are no Mac OS X drivers for it! Which would have made me, say, unhappy, had I not had my trusty Huawei E220. The only information I have been able to come up with are amazed reviews from gadget websites. Not even

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Clapton's music is not really my cup of tea, but it was nice. Made me think about other concerts I would like to go to. I should have tried going to Mark Knopfler's, or Police. The people in Valencia seemed to really like it there... And, most of all, made me think about Peter Gabriel. I wonder why I didn't think about looking for his concerts before. (IMDB says Wall-E has one song by Peter

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I never thought I would begin a blog talking about a movie, but so be it. After all, it has been a long time since a film didn't hit me like this one (maybe "Solaris", about 5 years ago?). And what the hell, I should start one way or another. And am missing a good debate. Let's see how this goes. "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it" Those who cannot remember the past,

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