Archive for March, 2005

goodbye ugly

A week or two ago I noticed that the theme I was using with my WordPress blog (the default one in WP 1.5, based on Kubrik) was pretty broken when viewed in IE6. I thought that David’s blog was also using the default WP 1.5 theme, but his didn’t seem as broken.

In any case, I […]

I want a Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar equivalent for my Mac

The greatest thing on my Windows dev box at work is Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar. This is probably the number one reason why I feel I am more productive on Windows than on my OS X box at home. I want something like this for my Mac. iSeek is close, but not quite there.

The […]

cygwin + NTFS permissions = badness

Cygwin is “a Linux-like environment for Windows.” Basically it provides all (or at least a large set) of the standard Linux command line tools for Windows. A lot of open source projects (e.g. Mozilla, for a big one) have based their Windows build systems on Cygwin because it simplifies the problems with trying to get […]

original uninstall instructions from Google Desktop Search

Checkout this amazing bit of paranoia, er, defensive programming used by Google Desktop Search. GDS installs a bunch of specifically named files to give a warning and uninstall instructions to errand Windows users.