Andrew Beresford's Blog » Computing http://www.beezly.org.uk Thu, 12 May 2011 13:12:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Afuse FTW http://www.beezly.org.uk/2009/02/afuse-ftw/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2009/02/afuse-ftw/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:19:45 +0000 beezly http://www.beezly.org.uk/2009/02/afuse-ftw/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2009/02/afuse-ftw/feed/ 0 Fixing Comment Counts in WordPress http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/09/fixing-comment-counts-in-wordpress/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/09/fixing-comment-counts-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:29:18 +0000 beezly http://blog.beezly.org.uk/?p=1844 http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/09/fixing-comment-counts-in-wordpress/feed/ 0 Bad user… http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/09/bad_user___/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/09/bad_user___/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 beezly # uptime 2:05pm up 49 day(s), 20:17, 45 users, load average: 7938.89, 5199.82, 1657.09 ]]> http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/09/bad_user___/feed/ 0 A few months on… http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/08/a_few_months_on___/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/08/a_few_months_on___/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 beezly It's been a few months since I bought my Mac now. It's really become my main operating system at work and I use it fairly frequently at home, so I thought I'd list a few of the applications I'm using frequently:

  • iTerm - iterm.sourceforge.net.

    An enhanced terminal application. I was used to gnome-terminal on Linux and the tabbed window feature was something I missed in the Apple supplied Terminal. One minor gripe was some broken keyboard mappings, but I fixed that.

  • VMware Fusion - vmware.com/products/fusion.

    Basically this is VMware Workstation for Macs. The Unity feature is excellent, allowing me to embed Windows applications on to my OS X desktop without having to have an entire Windows desktop running in a window. My main requirement for this is to run Linux and also for Windows XP (my work use Microsoft Live Communication Server - Windows Messenger is the only client that I can use to talk to it and the Mac version doesn't seem to work). I've always been really impressed with VMware's products and Fusion also excels.

  • MacFUSE - code.google.com/p/macfuse.

    FUSE for Macintosh. It allows me to mount filesystems on machines just using SSH. Another great piece of software which I was used to from Linux.

  • Azureus - azureus.sourceforge.net.

    A cross-platform Java BitTorrent client. I'm not too keen on what they are doing with v3, but v2.5 is ok. I've also been using Transmission - tranmission.m0k.org, although sometimes it doesn't have some features that I want to use.

  • VirtueDesktops - virtuedesktops.org.

    Virtual Desktops for OSX. If you used Virtual Desktops before you'll find this to be a really nice implementation with some clever features that allow you to use the tilt and light sensors to change desktops (although they're more of a gimmick than anything else). Development of VirtueDesktops has stopped as it is about to be out-moded by the inclusion of a Virtual Desktop feature ( Spaces) in the next release of Mac OSX. Until then, VirtueDesktops is great.

  • Firefox - getfirefox.com.

    The best web browser out there for my purposes.

  • MissingSync for Palm OS - www.markspace.com/missingsync_palmos.php

    Decent synchronisation for my Treo 680 phone.

  • SpanningSync - spanningsync.com.

    Synchronises my iCal Calendars with Google Calendar. I'm not usually that keen on "Subscription Software", but this application seems to work reliably.

]]> http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/08/a_few_months_on___/feed/ 0 Remember kids http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/07/remember_kids/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/07/remember_kids/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 beezly a fairy dies.]]> http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/07/remember_kids/feed/ 0 Google Streetview http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/06/google_streetview/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/06/google_streetview/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 beezly Geograph has been the closest anyone has come to my idea (Well that's the most impressive UK example of photo-location tagging at least) But the big G has just launched a new extension to their maps...

Google Streetview

Takes a while for all the fancy javascript to load, but give it a try. Cool hey? Might have to wait for a while before they add Holmfirth coverage though! ]]> http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/06/google_streetview/feed/ 2 Someone asked me the other day… http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/01/someone_asked_me_the_other_day___/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/01/someone_asked_me_the_other_day___/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 beezly http://www.beezly.org.uk/2007/01/someone_asked_me_the_other_day___/feed/ 1 First Thoughts on Firefox 3 Alpha 1 http://www.beezly.org.uk/2006/12/first_thoughts_on_firefox_3_alpha_1/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2006/12/first_thoughts_on_firefox_3_alpha_1/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 beezly is available, although only recommended for developers and crazy people. The first thing I've noticed is that rendering of pages, especially those using lots of Javascript and AJAX goodness is much, much quicker. I've also noticed that it crashes a lot - but it is an Alpha release, so that's to be expected. That is all.]]> http://www.beezly.org.uk/2006/12/first_thoughts_on_firefox_3_alpha_1/feed/ 0 Loosing Time http://www.beezly.org.uk/2006/11/loosing_time/ http://www.beezly.org.uk/2006/11/loosing_time/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 beezly Looks like fiordland.ubuntu.com (the default ubuntu time server) is loosing time (highlighted in red)...

     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
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 fiordland.ubunt 193.79.237.14    2 u   17   64    1   86.350   30.454   0.001
 71.237.179.90   140.142.16.34    2 u   16   64    1  199.342    4.298   0.001
 ntp1.ja.net     193.62.22.98     2 u   15   64    1   25.256   -5.517   0.001
 ntp2.ja.net     .GPS.            1 u   14   64    1   23.713   -4.287   0.001
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		Shell history meme
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cs1ajb@bootsy:~$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} \
  {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
     78 cd
     73 ls
     60 ssh
     43 sudo
     24 apt-cache
     22 vi
     16 script/server
     13 ps
     11 dpkg
      9 sqlite3
Yup, I've been doing some Ruby On Rails development.]]> http://www.beezly.org.uk/2006/09/shell_history_meme/feed/ 1