Everything that doesn’t fit anywhere else
I’ve been an SSHKeychain user for quite a while and I was a little concerned that something would change with Leopard that would kill it off for a while. Well, it turns out Leopard pretty much obviates the need for it. If you have private keys in your .ssh directory with the name id_dsa or id_rsa, Leopard will automatically try to add them to ssh-agent and optionally store the password in your Keychain. Thanks to Rachel Greenham for pointing this out.
I just got Leopard installed about.. 15 minutes ago and so far my favorite new thing: Safari 3. Holy crap is it fast. Bloglines beta is positively zippy, as is every other web site I’ve visited so far. It just blows the doors off Firefox on a Mac for overall browsing experience.Now if I just had Firebug for Safari3, I’d be a very very happy camper.
Update: Hit my first snag. Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 Web Premium Upgrade does not want to install. The shared components go in alright but the actual applications that I use (like Photoshop and Fireworks) all fail the install. Anyone run into this and find a work-around?
Update Update: Worked around this one by using the Migration Assistant after finishing the clean install. Photoshop works just fine now, or at least it appears to.
A long time ago in a state far away, I wrote an IHttpModule that provides HTTP compression to ASP.NET applications. People liked it, I kept it fairly updated and responded to most of the bugs that came in. For the last few years, I have not released any updates for it nor included any of the bug fixes that have come my way. The DotNetNuke project came along and offered to pull it into their umbrella of services, which I agreed to, and it’s been living there since. Last I knew, I was officially the admin for it on DNN, but it’s not a role I’ve really performed in any way.Since then, the download page here on blowery.org stayed up and it’s still, by far, the most popular thing on my site. People seem to get some utility out of it, so I’ve kept it up and will continue to do so.I’d always wanted to get the source into a publicly exposed subversion repository and thankfully Google has made that dead simple now. Going forward, I’m going to host the project at http://code.google.com/p/httpcompress/ and track issues and discussion using Google Code’s tools. If you’re interested in advancing the project, let me know and I can add you to the list of developers over on the site.
So, I finished Portal. The game takes a little while to wrap your head around, but once you do, it really gets under your skin. To the point that last night when the kiddo woke up crying, I was seriously thinking I could just set up a portal between the bedroom and the kid’s room to allow me to simply reach over and stick the pacifier back in his mouth. Or suck a bottle up from the kitchen downstairs without having to traverse the stairs in a half-awake, mostly blind stupor. Seriously. It was considered as an actual real thing. I love my brain when it just wakes up. Anything is possible.
That said, I’m glad I beat it and I can move on with life. Though I do miss my weighted companion cube…
I always wondered how these things work. The opening act when Air played in NYC was playing one and we were all looking at it, wondering what in the world was going on.