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taktile writes "I started the project about a week and a half ago after learning about Apple's ASCIIMoviePlayer. QuickASCII is an Open Source project to add improvements to Apple's player."
Another user writes, "There is a small group collaboration program called iStorm that is out. It anyone gets tired of severely delayed collaboration over the Internet, maybe he should try an almost telepathic experience with this program."
ludeyork writes "I just saw that BBEdit 7.0 has been released and it's got great new features." It's very cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet. The CVS integration is worth the upgrade for me.
yuck72 writes "Apple has just released version 5.2 of its WebObjects application server. Improvements include better J2EE integration, easy tools for building SOAP-based web services and Java Webstart support. Applications can be deployed on any machine with a Java 1.3.1 compliant JVM. Apple's 'best-kept secret' really deserves more attention than it currently gets considering that it plays in the same league as Websphere and Weblogic." Oops, maybe I should have given it its own story.
forget interarchy for sftp, check out panic's transmit. it is a very well constructed cocoa application and is $25 USD rather than interarchy's $45, but if cost is really an issue you can look into fugu a free sftp cocoa app written by the university of michigan coding cowboys...
couldn't the user above tunnel their connections though?
You can possibly set up an ssh tunnel and use BBEdit's ftp support. This assumes that you have a shell on the destination server.
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The point was integration with BBEdit, though, and Transit and fugu don't do that, as best I can tell.
Check the new version of BBedit. they claim CVS support.
The new version (2.1) of Transmit by Panic Software (great guys) has both SFTP support and basic integration with BBEdit out of the box. Check it out!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
pulled from macosxhints:
? s=&th readid=7095
There's a much easier way to do this:
"Don't use open, just make sure the file is in a directory on your path, then drag the file 'ASCIIMoviePlayer' to your terminal.app, next pull the movie you want to see onto the terminal and press return.
Tip: use a movie that is not too large, or reduce your terminal font very small.
Also, you get the best results by changing the Terminal window settings to white on black. "
Credit this trinket to: sao
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." - Jack Nicholson
Sorry, pet peeve.
:^)
Although my mom made a big deal out of it, I've never really cared much when someone uses "me" where he should have used "I." On the other hand, for some reason (probably because I'm insane*), it is much more annoying when someone uses "I" where she should have used "me." A person is consciously making an extra effort to speak or write properly, and the effort is actually counterproductive. I am so incredibly lazy that I hate wasted effort, even when it is somebody else's wasted effort.
The real rule (or close enough for me, since I'm not an English major) is that "I" is used for the subject and "me" is used as an object. But since most confusion comes in plural situations, the following rule of thumb usually is enough to get by:
Remove the other person/thing/entity from the sentence, and the correct word will usually become obvious.
In the case above, get rid of the boss for a second. "What I really need is a program that allows [my boss and] I to do such and such..."
"I need a program that allows I to do such and such."
OR
"I need a program that allows me to do such and such."
Sorry for the rant.
* I've come to terms with my insanity. Why can't you?
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If you must know, anal-retentive IS spelled with a hyphen.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
My one beef with BBEdit is it doesn't support hypertext internally. That was a cool feature of Alpha, which will soon be out for os x. I am waiting for alphaX so I can play with that feature. I work with large quantities of text documents (not always HTML but easily converted) and it would be great to have an easy way to navigate them in a primitive web browser like lynx or whatever but internal to bbedit so I don't have to switch to mozilla every time. Which of course doesn't word-wrap when you're looking at text files which is annoying if you actually want to read them rather than just edit code.
But on the brighter side, back when I first ordered bbedit (version 3 I think it was, something like $50 at educational pricing) they sent me a free "Software That Doesn't Suck" T-shirt.