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You win, Mac OS X!

Steven Fisher — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:04:39 +0000

Mac OS X wins!

Yes, those are all Crash Reporter screens. No, I’m not going to report them all. Mac OS X wins this battle of wills.

Still not moving to Firefox!

Steven Fisher — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:11:41 +0000

After my last post, Firefox fans are probably wondering why I’d bother. The truth is that even with the annoying bugs present in it, I still find Safari the least offensive browser, given Firefox’s window focus drawing bug, inability to be dragged from the status bar, the botched spellchecker integration, slow launches, etc, etc.

I’m sure most of these will be fixed, but Firefox is a well of platform integration problems. The well does have a bottom, but we’re probably not near it yet.

Restore deleted Safari cookies

Steven Fisher — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:09:58 +0000

Safari 3.1 still eats cookies, although it seems to do so much less often than 3.0. I just hit it for the first time since updating.

So what do you do when your cookies all disappear? Well, you can actually use Time Machine to restore them. The cookies are stored in ~/Library/Cookies in a single file called Cookies.plist. Trash this file, then use Time Machine to restore one from a couple hours previous.

Leopard’s date column

Steven Fisher — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:25:36 +0000

The Finder is generally pretty good at reformatting the data column to show dates without truncation. Give it enough space, and it will display the date as “Friday, November 23, 2007, 12:52 PM.” A little less and it is supposed to drop the Friday part. A little less and it switches to a numeric format.

Unfortunately, it seems less than perfect. Sometimes it keeps the long format with columns that are too narrow, as seen in the following picture:

Why? I don’t know. It seems they put so much effort into this already, it’s hard to imagine why they didn’t make the final push to make date columns always usable.

Radar #5612934.

Spaces are too hard (the character, not the feature)

Steven Fisher — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:25:12 +0000

This is something that made my skin crawl.

What’s the significance? This is pretty clear evidence that something was trying to create a file in Application Support and couldn’t quite deal with the spaces. Worse, I have no idea which program it was. So apparently I have a ticking time bomb on my system, some program eagerly rubbing its hands and waiting to write over or delete the wrong thing because it is using the command line somehow and can’t escape spaces.

I hope 10.6 adds a “who created this file?” command.

Buggy Saints Row: The Musical

Steven Fisher — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:20:44 +0000

Amused gamer constructs “musical” of bugs found in game. Contains hits such as “Where’s my f-ing car?” “My car door’s freaking out,” and “What is this place?”