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Linked List: November 2, 2006

Thursday, 2 November 2006

Random Color Terminal 

Daniel Jalkut:

It sure comes up with some ugly schemes, but the good news is that with a Terminal-specific shortcut assigned to the script, I can rip through random choices until I see something I like. I even discovered a little algorithm online to determine whether black or white text is best for the given background color.

AIGA Polling Place Photo Project 

AIGA:

The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that seeks to empower citizens to capture, post and share photographs of democracy in action. By documenting their local voting experience on November 7, voters can contribute to an archive of photographs that captures the richness and complexity of voting in America.

The Reality About Steve Jobs and Stock Options 

MDJ:

To argue now, three and a half years later, that Jobs benefited because these options were underwater by US$30 per share instead of US$32 per share doesn’t pass the laugh test.

More Pants Stains: Think Secret 

Scroll to the end for the punchline.

Implications of Adobe’s Intel-Only Soundbooth 

Scott Stevenson:

Apple’s focus is on Intel right now, but this stuff is unpredictable. Well, actually, it is predictable. It always changes. There was 16-bit to 32-bit, 32-bit to 64-bit, 68k to PowerPC, PowerPC to Intel. What if Apple released a new type of portable which was not x86-based at all?

Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Mini-Review 

Steven Frank’s new MacBook Pro arrived.

Aperture Free Trial 

A reasonable response to the free trial of Adobe Lightroom during its public beta.

The Django Book Pre-Release 

Adrian Holovaty:

Starting today, The Django book is available at djangobook.com. We’ll be unveiling one or two chapters each week until the whole book is available. The first two chapters are available now.

Interarchy File Converters 

Perfect example of why I love Interarchy: version 8.2 adds the ability to specify automatic file converters attached to any server or path. One of the built-in converters is for a new, open file format called Interarchy Backup Format:

As mentioned, we also wrote a Backup script which encodes all the meta data in an open format, including resource fork, BSD flags and weird things like ACLs and HFS+ extended attributes (I wish we did not have to write our own format, but there simply is not any existing format that supported 64 bit and all the meta data).

This is great for backing up files with important Mac metadata to remote servers that don’t natively handle such metadata.

Paul Thurrott: New Shuffles Ship With Old-Style Ear Buds 

What is up with that?

Glenn Fleishman on the Metasploit AirPort Exploit 

Glenn Fleishman:

In a fairly unresponsible move, the MoKB won’t provide information in advance in any systematic way to the affected operating systems or programs. In the security world, this is considered bad form, somewhere between taking a dump in a swimming pool and selling drugs to children. There’s little reason to not provide advance information to affected parties unless you’re trying to be clever, instead of smart.

LuaCore 0.2 

Gus Mueller’s open source framework for easily embedding Lua in Cocoa apps.