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The Unofficial Apple Weblog ran an article today (http://tinyurl.com/2jxuhc) pointing to this Flickr image (http://tinyurl.com/2w9jnr) made by someone with with far too many windows open on his Mac.

So what the hell … let’s join in; for those remotely interested here’s my MacBook Pro running …

Mail.app (One main windows and 2 smart folders), Firefox, SSH Tunnel Manager, SSH Keychain, Growl, GMail Notifier, Adium, iSync, Terminal, OmniGraffle Pro, iCal.app, iTunes, Mac Word and smcFanControl

New job, new desk, therefore new hardware. When my day job took place at FormScape my desk was somewhat cluttered; a case of more is more.

Since then I’ve moved on and my working hours are now occupied by a division of Yahoo! and we’re definitely in the less is more category where desks are concerned..

I’d never found any issues with speed or overall responsiveness when using my trusty G4 iBook but compared to the MacBook Pro my iBook definately feels sluggish. With 1 GB of SDRAM and a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo this machine is as fast and responsive as it’s visually gorgeous. So far I’ve had none of the fan or heat issues that other MacBook Pro owners have been afflicted with. According to Coconut Identity Card, the machine is a very recent build so let’s hope that the MacBook Pro’s teething issues are as an end.

I got some new shoes recently to coincide with starting a new job. Ben also got some new shoes; his first proper pair. There’s a slight difference in size …

Various quotes, mostly UNIX related, which I’ve accrued over the years from various sources.

Well my terminal’s locked up and I ain’t got any Mail
And I can’t recall the last time that my program didn’t fail
I’ve got stacks in my structs, I’ve got arrays in my queues
I’ve got those: Segmentation violation — Core dumped blues.

The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

– Grace Murray Hopper

Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the corner of the dashboard. “The experienced driver”, says Thompson, “will usually know what’s wrong”.

– Anonymous

The problem with sendmail is that the sendmail configuration file is a rule based expert system, but the world of email is not logical and sendmail configuration editors are not experts.

– David Waitzman, BBN

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While I was playing with AppleScript earlier this week I wanted to run a shell script I’d written from within Finder rather than from a shell prompt in Terminal.app.

On Windows I tend to write scripts to run under Cygwin and then write a wrapper batch file to run the script under the control of Cygwin’s bash executable.

Turns out the AppleScript solution is identical in principal and is as simple as

do shell script "/full/path/to/shell/script"

You may need to adjust the path to the script dependent upon whether the directory where your script resides is in your $PATH or not.