In March I posted that an authentication change to AIM might break Adium for that service. The date of change came and went though and Adium continued to work. Continue reading Not farewell Adium
Category: Computer
El Capitan Macports update
Finally updated macport on my system after updating my OS in December. Continue reading El Capitan Macports update
Focus Mac OS X dialog with keyboard
Found an answer to a long standing Mac OS keyboard navigation question: How to focus a dialog window when it has lost focus. Continue reading Focus Mac OS X dialog with keyboard
Farewell Adium?
Apparently, AOL Instant Messenger is changing their authentication method, which will break support for some existing clients. Adium is among them Continue reading Farewell Adium?
Once again had to recover some of my Firefox tabs after an update (this happened before). I haven’t reduced my tab count since last time as planned (currently at 570). Gonna have to work on that. I think having so many makes Firefox more unstable and slow.
Mac Update: Snow Leopard to El Capitan
A few weeks ago, I finally made the jump from Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to 10.11 (El Capitan) on my primary computer. I had been using 10.11 at work for months, but not at home. I was probably one of the last holdouts on hardware that could be updated. Continue reading Mac Update: Snow Leopard to El Capitan
After a recent OS and Firefox update, I found myself with a window with 120+ empty tabs in place of several hundred non-empty tabs that I’ve built up over the years. I thought they were gone. Luckily, the Tab Groups plugin that I use (formerly built into the browser) automatically backs up the tabs when it is updated, which had happened 6 days before. I was able to recover 465 tabs. Yes, I have a tab problem. I find articles daily, and often don’t have the time to read through them right away, so I save them. I leave open pages I find in searching for solutions to problems I’m not yet ready to solve. I’m trying to read through or bookmark tabs over time, but I think I’m adding faster than subtracting. I must say, Firefox was super fast with 465 less tabs, and I would feel less scattered if I got them under control, so I will try to put more effort into reduction. I think a better bookmarking system would help a lot with that.
Almost lost some work with git. I was using git reset --hard to rewrite some history, but I forgot that I had some unstaged changes. Luckily, I had stashed it previously and still had the call in my terminal buffer, so I was able to get the object ID and apply it after verifying it was the right one with git stash -p show $ID. Continue reading
Wow, the highest cost (31) bcrypt hashing of a password with PHP’s password_hash() function is quite safe from brute force attacks from my laptop: It ran for almost 282 CPU minutes trying to compute one hash before I stopped it.
Apparently, setting a running Apple laptop on top of a closed one can cause the running one to sleep at random times. Must be magnets aligning.