http://alexamancini.com/blog/ The web log of Vlad Alexa Mancini en http://backend.userland.com/rss092 OSX is nice , and not because it has no shortcomings , but because you can fix them as opposed to windows. This has a lot to do with the power of osx that stems from it having applescript and a posix compliant shell. Here is how to change metadata of files so you can play divx movies with itunes for example , with terminal and devtools [code]find /path/toyour/movies/directory -name "*.avi" -print0 | xargs -0 /developer/tools/SetFile -t "MooV"[/code] , with applescript http://forums.iloung .. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_29.html Ok so i have to quote and comment on the following from informationweek : [URL=http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901923 ]^[/URL] [quote]Jobs' statements are sure to disappoint Web developers, many of whom are familiar with Flash development[/quote] I am a web developer and i am not disappointed at all by his statement which for the record was straight on and amounted to : [quote]"Flash is not yet good enough for the iPhone,"[/quote] Now i certainly do no .. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_28.html If you ever did a whois on say <a href=http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=googleamptld=com target=_blank>google.com</a> , <a href=http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=microsoftamptld=com target=_blank>miscrosoft.com</a> or <a href=http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=yahooamptld=com target=_blank>yahoo.com</a> you have been most likely been exposed to some obscenity and there is nothing the owners of the named domains can do about it. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_27.html Things are looking up for <a href=http://finance.google.com/finance?q=CSCO target=_blank>Cisco Systems</a> and for those lucky CSCO stock owners nowadays as Cisco is well under way towards strong penetration of the telco market , hell they even wap enabled their <a href=http://www.cisco.com/web/mobile/>website</a> just now. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_26.html I recently replaced my trusty UltraX keyboard and mouse with the Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop for Notebooks and i had a seroius problem with pressing the Sleep button every time i picked it up so i just had to disable that. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_24.html What would you say if not owning a garage your auto seller would supply by default a Mord truck by your house for you to park your new car into and told you this is your only alternative besides buying a garage from them? http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_23.html What i am talking about is the date 06.06.06 when we could see signs of the dollar to recover from a 2 month decline in anticipation of the 17th successive rise in U.S. interest rates by the Fed (which happened today) and in the momentum of the oil prices drop. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_22.html It comes as no surprise too , microsoft's paradigm for adding new features is reinventing the wheel , and they overengineer it just to the point where it is inevitable to break , and impossible to determine why it did so. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_20.html It is common belief that Perl is the language of choice for the purpose of data processing and manipulation , and i couldn't agree more , having been turning to it every time i needed some serious data processing , only to get the best results at each undertaking. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_19.html I have finished going trough my third Dan Brown novel , i was curious about these "high-tech thrillers" he is supposed to write , and what can i say , they are not plain , prety documented and mostly entertaining , but i am not sure Dan Brown is a writer , or at best that he has any grip with technology. http://alexamancini.com/blog/index_16.html