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New user? Wednesday, November 5, 2003
A bugger of a BugReporter
On Sunday, ADC's BugReporter app wouldn't let me log in, it said I didn't have access to it. Odd. Okay. On Monday the problem persisted, so I filled out the form they provide for people who are having problems connecting to the BugReporter.
Today I received an email from Apple telling me I now had access. Great! A minute ago I remembered that I had access and wanted to file a bug about CVS support in Xcode, when BugReporter tells me:
What. Do. I. Have. To. Do. To. File. A. .... BUG?!
PS: Of course it's only fitting that the first time I tried to post this weblog entry, the server my weblog is hosted by wasn't responding!
Serious Jaguar/Panther interop problem
I just ran into a really distressing problem with Mac OS X. I mounted my Panther-PowerBook's boot drive on my Jaguar-PowerMac, so that I could copy the PowerBook's copy of SubEthaEdit from its Applications folder into my PowerMac's Applications folder.
SubEthaEdit wouldn't run on Jaguar. Okay, maybe it was built against the newer SDK, so it won't run. Same thing happened when I tried SubEthaEdit 1.1.4 from the disk image on Jaguar.
A little later, I accidentally launched iTunes. It presented me with its license agreement and setup windows! Weird, I thought, I guess my iTunes setup was wrecked somehow.
Then a few minutes ago I tried double-clicking on a PDF (I'm still using the Jaguar-PowerMac at this point) that's in my ~/Documents folder. A window appears saying it can't run the application because it's not compatible with the system!
I right-click the PDF, choose Open With, and there's two Preview entries listed. 2.0.1, and 2.1 (default). 2.1 is the version on Panther!
So, because I had my Panther machine mounted, it was loading THOSE applications, because their version numbers were higher!
That's BAD.
Canada's government is turning its back on its people
Ottawa Citizen: Now, let me tell you who I am: Arar's statement -- read this.
Ottawa Citizen: 'My life and my career have been destroyed'
Citizen Special: 375 days of uncertainty and torture 2002
Ottawa Citizen: Second Canadian held in Syria 'We didn't know whether he was dead or alive'
Ottawa Citizen: PM rules out public inquiry
Ottawa Citizen: Arar may never find the answers he's looking for, Graham admits
canada.com: Contact the government
If this is how our government supports its people, then it is not a government worth our support, our pride. It is shameful and pitiful to be led by these spineless cowards. I still believe Canadians are a strong, proud people. If this doesn't get us riled up, nothing will, and then we're all spineless.
If our government won't step up to protect Maher Arar, what do you think your chances are if some foreign government decides to deport you to a dangerous place? Not too good.
Seth Dillingham has picked up this story on his weblog. Thank you Seth!
I don't have Trackback or referrer-tracking on my site, so I don't know if others have linked to this. If you have linked to this story on your site, or read about it on another weblog, please let me know. Thanks!
JavaScript Event Sheets, and sorttable
Simon Willison's Weblog: Javascript Mojo
From the sounds of it, two very interesting projects and concepts for you web UI folk to consider. I don't have time right now to personally look into it deeper, unfortunately.
I suppose I should have known this... Andy McKay just informed me that this is a standard feature of table listings in Plone, even in Plone 1. I tried it and it didn't work in Safari, but it did work in Mozilla. Very cool. I wish it worked in Safari, though.
Thanks for the info Andy!
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
CSS Edit on sale until the 10th
I keep on hearing great things about CSS Edit, a visual CSS Editor (not to mention a pretty cool CSS text editor).
I downloaded it and gave it a spin by browsing and messing around with the plone css file. Very impressive! What's more, it's only $14.99 until the 10th of November. Quite a bargain at that price.
