I now have a variety of applications that are incompatible with Mac OS X because I chose to install a case-sensitive filesystem 3 years ago when I got my Mac. Yes. THREE YEARS AGO. It has been possible to have a case sensitive filesystem (i.e., where files named READme, ReAdMe, and readme are all different files) for many years. Several major software vendors have been completely caught by this and failed to (a) account for it during development, (b) account for it in testing, or (c) provide any kind of solution.
The vendors that give me grief right now are:
- Logitech (Harmony Remote manager)
- Red Marble Games (Democracy 2)
- Adobe (Acrobat 9)
Now what really burns me up is that I just upgraded to Acrobat 9 from Acrobat 7 on Mac OS, and Acrobat 7 WORKED on a case-sensitive filesystem. It’s a regression! Read more…
MacOS, Rants, Software Testing, Technical
acrobat, adobe, bug, software, testing
I was doing laundry this weekend. I do about 0.01% of the loads of laundry in our household, on average, despite being responsible for about 1/3 to 1/2 of it, by volume. I observed something funny about how I do it, too.
For whatever reason, I always start with whites. After all, they need special handling (don’t put the red T-shirt in with them, right Jenny?). It also seems like you get a lot done by starting with whites.
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Fun Stuff, Personal
laundry, men, relationships, women
Lots of my friends are filling out the X facts about me. Some are “Write any 25 facts.” Some are “Answer these 100 questions.” Then they go on to tell you all manner of detailed information about themselves. This is really a bad idea for a lot of reasons.
Claire Suddath wrote an interesting article on Time.com about “25 Things I Didn’t Want to Know About You” and the way people are writing all kinds of useless, intimate, and just plain weird things on Facebook. While I like social networking, you won’t see me sharing these kinds of things. I’m still old-school paranoid enough to keep most of this kind of stuff off the net. Here’s why. Read more…
Technical
Facebook, paranoia, privacy, social networking