Marapfhile's Ramblings
[Most Recent Entries]
[Calendar View]
[Friends]
Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in
Marapfhile's LiveJournal:
[ << Previous 20 ]
| Monday, October 26th, 2009 | | 11:54 pm |
In medias freakin‘ res
Is anybody else getting really tired of TV shows that start out with some confusing disaster scene, then jump back with a "X hours ago" (or days, or whatever)? The technique was old and busted when Homer used it, can we please come up with something else? Current Mood:  annoyedCurrent Music: none | | Friday, September 25th, 2009 | | 10:52 am |
Suddenly, Pix!
I went on a quick trip to Kukup, a nearby village in Malaysia, this past weekend, with some friends. The pictures are now up on my Flickr account. Enjoy! Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: none | | Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | | 1:45 pm |
Fixing Mac Mail Folder Sort Order
Mac Mail (AKA Mail.app) has a distressing tendency to delete the mailbox cache of IMAP accounts when certain network operations are interrupted. Since preferred sorting column and direction are stored in plist files in this cache, that means that all folders reset to be sorted by date, ascending, which drives me nuts. After the latest such event, I finally sat down and figured out how to fix this automatically, in bulk:
% for f in ~/Library/Mail/**/Info.plist; do {
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Delete :DisplayInThreadedMode' $f;
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Delete :SearchSortDescending' $f;
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Delete :SearchSortOrder' $f;
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Delete :SortOrder' $f;
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Delete :SortedDescending' $f; } > /dev/null
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Add :DisplayInThreadedMode string no' $f;
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Add :SearchSortDescending string YES' $f;
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Add :SearchSortOrder string rank' $f;
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Add :SortOrder string received-date' $f;
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Add :SortedDescending string YES' $f;
done
This should have the same effect as wiping out all the plists, allowing Mail to regenerate them in their default state, and then going through and manually changing every folder to sort by date, descending.
(And yes, there are probably better, or at least more concise, ways to code the script, but this was the easiest to write, and shell arrays suck.) Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: Weird Al's "A Complicated Song" (internal) | | Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | | 12:04 am |
Fuzzy Pix of Fuzzy Music
Just got back from the Singapore edition of the current Nine Inch Nails tour. Pix here; note that the iPhone is not the best camera for these conditions. Current Mood:  happyCurrent Music: various NIИ (internal) | | Monday, August 10th, 2009 | | 1:51 am |
Wolf and Short-Selling
In season 2, episode 4, our hero invents the commodity future contract. Coming in season three, Wolf and the Credit Default Swap? Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: _Spice and Wolf_ soundtrack | | Monday, July 27th, 2009 | | 9:59 pm |
Overweight At Last
Today's post-workout weigh-in: 185 pounds (or as the scale actually read in these foreign parts, 84.0 kg). Why is this number significant? 185*703/66^2=29.9: this is my first time with a BMI under thirty in, most likely, about ten years. Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: The Arrogant Worms' "Big Fat Road Manager" (internal, pure coincidence) | | Monday, June 8th, 2009 | | 3:07 pm |
| | Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | | 9:17 pm |
| | 9:02 am |
King of the Nutshell
Well, not bad dreams, but very strange. I spent (what felt like) at least an hour early this morning bouncing back and forth through at least two, and possibly more, levels of dream and dream-within-a-dream, with most of the transitions being known but involuntary--I'd be "awake", trying to do something, and feel myself falling "asleep" and be unable to stop. (There may have also been some real awake time in there somewhere; it all sort of ran together.) Very odd. At one point I was even telling someone in the dream about a dream-within-a-dream I'd been having. Apparently my subconscious is way meta. Current Mood: awakeCurrent Music: "I Am the Walrus" (internal, courtesy of the Beatles Rock Band trailer) | | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | | 11:05 pm |
Back In Singapore
Back from Cambodia, and about ready to keel over. Not sure if it was the three days being hauled around on the back of a motorcycle or what, but I ache everywhere. Pix and commentary tomorrow, or whenever I'm not in pain. Current Mood:  exhaustedCurrent Music: none | | Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | | 10:52 pm |
Angkor? I Barely Know Her!
On a scale from one to Siem Reap, I'm in Siem Reap! I arrived yesterday afternoon and saw the sunset from a hilltop temple. I spent most of today tramping around Angkor Wat and its associated temples and palaces on the "Little Circuit"; the plan is to do the "Big Circuit" tomorrow, then finish up Monday morning with a trip to a floating village on Tonlé Sap. Pics to follow. Current Mood:  tiredCurrent Music: "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (internal, no idea why) | | Monday, May 11th, 2009 | | 9:59 am |
Star Trek Thoughts, Spoilerrific and Un-
(also posted to /.) On the styling: someone's been watching way too much BSG; Starfleet ships are not supposed to look steam powered. That engine room was ridiculous. On canon: Robert April, call your agent. On prequels: WTF is wrong with going forward with the 24th century? I took about five minutes to come up with the following idea for a new series, which I hereby place into the public domain: in the Voyager finale, Janeway brought working transwarp back from the Delta Quadrant, making it feasible to visit other galaxies for the first time. Put the epic multi-year arcs on hold for a while and go back to the roots, one ship, episodically exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, one per week. (Unfortunately it can't really be called Star Trek: Andromeda, as that would confuse the hell out of everyone, but I'm sure they can come up with a suitable name.) Or do something about Section 31, or something about Romulan politics, or something about the Mirror Universe. There are forty years of continuity here to play with, I fail to see why they're so eager to throw them away and start over. ( spoiler behind the cut ) Current Mood: disappointedCurrent Music: none | | Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | | 1:36 am |
| | Saturday, April 18th, 2009 | | 9:56 pm |
| | Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | | 7:04 am |
Conflation
This morning I dreamed that Dr. Saroyan from Bones was angry at me for playing too many computer games at work. Current Mood: sleepyCurrent Music: Rush's "Trees" (internal, no idea why) | | Monday, April 6th, 2009 | | 12:46 pm |
| | Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 | | 9:15 am |
| | Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | | 9:23 pm |
Personal Milestone
Today's post-workout weigh-in: 89.8 kg. (That's 198 lbs. for those of you playing at home.) This is the first time in over seven years I've been below that mark. Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: none | | Friday, March 27th, 2009 | | 7:05 am |
Earth Hour
Earth Hour is this Saturday, so remember everyone, turn everything in your house on! If we all work together, we should be able to "offset" (see what I did there?) whatever the idiots who organized this thing manage to "achieve". (I should be able to equal at least half a dozen CFL weenies' non-output all on my own, what with four computers, two TVs, and an ancient 17-inch CRT monitor just waiting to be switched on. Remember what "the lights are going out" used to mean? Stand up and be proud of your civilization, and burn that power! Here's my reworking of the poster:  Current Mood: annoyedCurrent Music: Rush's "Trees" (internal) | | Sunday, March 8th, 2009 | | 5:00 am |
Old Filk!
This was written a day or two after this, since one song wasn't enough to get the tune out of my head. Somehow it never got posted.... Windows Boxes by Aaron Davies ttto "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds Windows boxes, Windows boxes Windows boxes from Microsoft Windows boxes on our desktops And they all crash just the same And there's Compaq and there's HP And there's Gateway and there's IBM And there's Sony and Toshiba And they all crash just the same And there's 3.1 and there's 95 And there's NT and there's 2K And there's XP and there's Longhorn And they all crash just the same And there's patches, second Tuesdays, And there's XP SP's 1 and 2 And there's fixes for the patches And they all crash just the same And there's trojans and virii And there's popups and there's spyware Cause there's EULAs fools click through So they all crash just the same But there's Linux and there's OS X And there's three kinds of BSD And I think there's still BeOS Why keep crashing just the same? Windows boxes, Windows boxes Windows boxes from Microsoft Windows boxes on our desktops And they all crash just the same Current Mood: surprisedCurrent Music: Misc. Leslie Fish tunes |
[ << Previous 20 ]
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
marapfhile's journal
