zzamboni’s Twitter Archive

Tweets for 2009-09

1. Snow Leopard installed, everything seems to be good so far. Even Lotus Notes seems to be working correctly. Had to redo dovecot's pam conf.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 1 Mood +3 🙂
2. Colors in Snow Leopard seem more saturated than before. Is it only my 2AM impression?
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 1 Mood 0
3. …in reply to @bricooke
   @bricooke Thanks, good to know I'm not seeing things. I actually like the new setting.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 1 Mood +7 🙂
4. Impressive coordination. Laptops, iPhones stolen in Apple Store robbery, caught on video: http://bit.ly/Tnm6
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 3 Mood +1 🙂
5. iStat Menus 2.0 is out, with Snow Leopard support. Good, I was missing it a lot: http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 4 Mood +3 🙂
6. …in reply to @undefined
   @vkoser I use Caffeine, still seems to work fine
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 4 Mood +2 🙂
7. …in reply to @undefined
   @vkoser No, it doesn't keep it awake on lid close.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 4 Mood -1 🙁
8. Found a box with all my class notes from Purdue. Decided to scan them. Anyone knows of good OCR sw/svc to make them searchable?
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 4 Mood +3 🙂
9. My first thought was Evernote, but it only analyzes PDFs for premium accounts.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 4 Mood 0
10. …in reply to @SifuMoraga
    @SifuMoraga Thx. Prob no good for my notes: "input image should be a TEXT BLOCK image...clear background, without any dirt around the texts"
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 4 Mood 0
11. …in reply to @rickdob
    @rickdob Maybe I will. How good is the OCR? Does it reliably interpret handwritten text? Thanks.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 7 Mood +7 🙂
12. Weirdest thing - my MBP would not recognize either kbd after reboot (except for Ctrl-# for Spaces!?) until I put it to sleep and back.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 7 Mood 0
13. Oldest daughter back to school after a week sick. Now the youngest is sick. Got it from the same friend who brought chickenpox. Damn kid.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 7 Mood -5 🙁
14. …in reply to @wimremes
    @wimremes They got chickenpox at ~3yr/9mo respectively. Now they got a strong flu. I agree, It's truly awful as a parent.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 7 Mood -2 🙁
15. Kudos to Apache for detailed, open report of what happened: http://bit.ly/ibhQs (via The Register http://bit.ly/3KRXTh )
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 7 Mood +3 🙂
16. Concerned about privacy? Move to Google's opt-out village http://bit.ly/N20d6
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 7 Mood -2 🙁
17. Going home http://post.ly/4IqR
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 8 Mood 0
18. Going home http://bit.ly/zsC1I
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 8 Mood 0
19. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser Thanks! We are very happy/nervous/busy :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 8 Mood +3 🙂
20. …in reply to @cerias
    @cerias Thanks! Hopefully it'll be a lot easier to find my way to Indiana now.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 8 Mood +4 🙂
21. Oops, came home to join a conference call, only to discover that X-Lite doesn't work on Snow Leopard yet. Any VoIP sw recommendations?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 8 Mood -1 🙁
22. I'm getting rid of my self-managed server for now. Migrating my blog, to Wordpress.com or to Posterous? I'm torn.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 9 Mood -2 🙁
23. Posterous makes it so easy to post and is just cool. Wordpress has CMS powers (easy to maintain my whole website with WP, as I currently do)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 9 Mood +3 🙂
24. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser Git is awfully cool. Couple it with GitHub, it's even cooler.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 9 Mood +1 🙂
25. …in reply to @geekgrrl
    @geekgrrl Well, Posterous can automatically post everything to WP, but then I have the same content in two blogs - not ideal.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 9 Mood 0
26. I'm seeing a lot more spam in Mail.app since upgrading to SL - seems like it unlearned much of what had slowly learned over time.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 9 Mood 0
27. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser I'll be doing that shortly - I'm switching my personal domain to gmail as part of my "IT simplification" before the move :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 9 Mood 0
28. So Apple added a camera to the iPod nano but not to the Touch? How very odd.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 9 Mood -2 🙁
29. Just finished setting up dual mail delivery for my domain, to Google Apps and to my current mail server. First step of the migration done.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood 0
30. Attending today the 2009 ZISC workshop on Security in Virtualization and Cloud computing http://www.zisc.ethz.ch/events/workshop2009 #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood 0
31. Earlier today, an excellent (if scary) talk by @gollmann about botnets as the largest example of cloud computing #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood +1 🙂
32. Now, Kevin Skapinetz on the evolution of security threats and challenges, in the context of virtualization and cloud computing #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood -2 🙁
33. @kskAp giving an overview of IBM/ISS research technologies and products about "virtualizing security" and "securing virtualization" #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com Mention 2009 Sep 10 Mood 0
34. Hans Reiser (not the reiserfs guy) talking about using virtualization for fault tolerance #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood +2 🙂
35. After lunch, a view into hypervisors from an OS-research perspective, by Timothy Roscoe #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood 0
36. seL4 is the 1st gen-purpose OS kernel with a formal proof that the implementation is consistent with the spec http://bit.ly/FZQU2
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood 0
37. "Of Cold Steam, Mist and Vapour - A view from the Inside of the Cloud", by Dirk Kuhlman from HP Labs #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood 0
38. Massimo Villari on the security impact of cloud computing in social networks #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 10 Mood 0
39. Peter Dickman from Google Zurich on cloud computing from the Google perspective #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 11 Mood 0
40. …in reply to @ak1010
    @ak1010 All (or most) of them will be made available later at http://www.zisc.ethz.ch/events/workshop2009
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 11 Mood 0
41. About to start the last session of the ZISC'09 workshop #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 11 Mood 0
42. Giles Hogben from ENISA on preliminary results of their cloud computing risk assessment study #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 11 Mood -2 🙁
43. Lee Badger from NIST on using attack graphs, and other mechanisms for security metrics #zisc09
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 11 Mood -1 🙁
44. The email delivery chain inside IBM is impressive. A message I got has 13 "Received:" headers _after_ entering ibm.com.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 14 Mood +3 🙂
45. Move of my two personal domains' email to Google Apps completed. Completely painless. #gonegoogle
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 14 Mood 0
46. I find it annoying that many places do not allow the user of a plus sign in email addresses. I find it useful to separate email.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 16 Mood -1 🙁
47. Useful instructions for configuring IMAP for Gmail & Mail.app: http://bit.ly/ousqU
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 16 Mood +2 🙂
48. "We're sorry, you deserved so much better" http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 16 Mood +1 🙂
49. Multi-document manipulation in Preview is very very nice. Is this new in Snow Leopard? Switching back to Preview from Skim for now.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 17 Mood +2 🙂
50. Posterous now supports theming!? How did I miss this until now? Awesome! #posterous
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 18 Mood +4 🙂
51. @garrytan This is an awesome feature, and even better that you allow HTML/CSS customization. This may seal the deal... http://post.ly/5Ltn
    Permalink On twitter.com Mention 2009 Sep 18 Mood +7 🙂
52. Massive cleanup of no-longer-applicable things in today's GTD weekly review, in the face of the upcoming move. Very liberating :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 18 Mood 0
53. Damn! Cable modem broke today at 5pm. Without internet or phone at home until tuesday at least :-(
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 18 Mood -3 🙁
54. Trying Opera Mini 5 beta on my k800i. Pretty slick.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 18 Mood +3 🙂
55. Where are all my neighbors' Wifi networks when I need them? ;-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 18 Mood 0
56. Chocolate brioches from Sprungli. Yum!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 20 Mood 0
57. At the Tufi fest in Adliswil http://post.ly/5hrZ
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 20 Mood 0
58. STS-128: Burritos in Space http://post.ly/5sA9
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 22 Mood 0
59. Greetings to @diegozzamboni, my Brazilian namesake on Twitter :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 22 Mood +2 🙂
60. Really hoping the new cable modem arrives today. Four days offline at home is good as detox therapy, but it's getting annoying.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 22 Mood +2 🙂
61. LazyTweet: recommendations for a free webhost for a set of static HTML pages (~25MB)? I need to upload my own files, no "site builder" tools
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 22 Mood 0
62. w000t, the new cable modem just arrived! Online again.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood 0
63. Although who missed it the most was my 1yo, who loves watching YouTube videos :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood +1 🙂
64. …in reply to @ryanwi
    @ryanwi GEA + DryDrop looks very promising. Thanks for the tip!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood +2 🙂
65. …in reply to @urkovain
    @UZurutuza I would agree that it's not the norm, but OTOH there's no conflict - session chair is just presenting the papers.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood -2 🙁
66. Wow, WTF big time. RT @jephjacques: I have never had a better start to my day: http://bit.ly/1oIZsF
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood +3 🙂
67. Fix MacFusion on Snow Leopard | Racker Hacker http://post.ly/60jP
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood 0
68. Coffee, then Coding time
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood 0
69. Kind get google-docs-fs to work on my Mac. It mounts, but on any type of access it says "Input/Output error". Any ideas?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood 0
70. Plus my brain is fried. That should have been "Can't get..."
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood 0
71. My MacPorts install was such a mess already, I just removed it completely and started from scratch.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood -2 🙁
72. …in reply to @AlecMuffett
    @AlecMuffett I couldn't bring myself to liking Adium as a Twitter client (I use it for everything else). I'm spoiled by @tweetie
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood 0
73. …in reply to @undefined
    @doctorlinguist Agree. It annoys me that it insists on installing its own duplicate versions of things. Still, I find it very useful.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 23 Mood +1 🙂
74. …in reply to @hypatiadotca
    @hypatiadotca Well, there's something I had never even considered. There really are websites for everything out there :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood 0
75. Huge dust storm in Sidney http://post.ly/65u5
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +1 🙂
76. The Ultimate Productivity Blog: http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood 0
77. 30 Bad Practices of Web Designers http://post.ly/66Mx
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood -3 🙁
78. I just discovered that you can edit snippets before posting to @posterous using the bookmarklet. Neat!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood 0
79. Windows 7 Party http://post.ly/66QH
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood 0
80. Dear web programmers: the plus sign is a valid character in an email address. Please get your act together and support it properly kthxbye
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +5 🙂
81. …in reply to @agarwal
    @a4agarwal OTOH it's absolutely great that you guys reply personally to every message we send. I love that about Posterous.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +6 🙂
82. Trying to sell or give away a NeXTstation I bought from @vkoser a long time ago. You'd think more people would want such a nice machine.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +4 🙂
83. …in reply to @globotomy
    @triki_bert Have you tried Tweetie?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood 0
84. …in reply to @globotomy
    @triki_bert Syrinx is really nice, I used it for a long time, but I like Tweetie better. I love the conversation view.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +10 🙂
85. Does anyone know if Twitter notifies people when you block them?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood -1 🙁
86. …in reply to @undefined
    @vkoser I'm guessing it would be awfully expensive. Plus it's not that rare an item - you can usually find a couple in eBay.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood 0
87. RT @chevalier_noir: I see Google has a sense of humour: http://bit.ly/WRORk
    Permalink On twitter.com Retweet 2009 Sep 24
88. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu No, brought it with me from Purdue. But now I can't afford to ship it back across the Atlantic :-) Would like to find it a good home
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +4 🙂
89. 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines « Smashing Magazine http://post.ly/67JD
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +2 🙂
90. …in reply to @undefined
    @Shrdlu :-) I didn't know you were also a NeXT person! Great machines. Not good for much these days, except looking at them :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood 0
91. Grrrrrr. Still can't get google-docs-fs to work, on my Mac or on a Linux machine. I'm spending on this more time than it's worth I think.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +2 🙂
92. …in reply to @VMDoug
    @VMDoug Wow, nice office :-)
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +7 🙂
93. …in reply to @loggly
    @loggly Fully agree. @posterous rocks. I'm in the process of migrating my blog (currently self-hosted wordpress) to it.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood +1 🙂
94. …in reply to @ak1010
    @ak1010 It seems it's only the web frontend again. Using IMAP I can see my gmail OK (at least on my Google Apps account).
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 24 Mood 0
95. On the train to Bern.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood 0
96. Arrived in Bern. Going to Mex. Embassy to pick up wife & daughter's new passports
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood 0
97. Done. Two hours of travel for 20 min of paperwork.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood 0
98. Doner kebab for lunch on the way to the office
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood 0
99. Finally back in the office. Correction: that was almost 5 hours of travel time for ~20 minutes of paperwork. I hate days like this.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood -1 🙁
100. The Webcycle « Tom Scott http://post.ly/6EP3
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood 0
101. Watching Delta 2 liftoff at Spaceflight Now: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d344/status.html
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood 0
102. …in reply to @davideisert
     .@davideisert But not everyone knows what a browser is: http://bit.ly/lBnxj
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood 0
103. …in reply to @gattaca
     @gattaca Why did he block you?
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 25 Mood -1 🙁
104. RT @kriggins: RT @Beaker: The art of carving up others tweets to RT them in 140c makes you a Twexter (Twitter+Dexter) ;) <- HA! <-Double HA!
     Permalink On twitter.com Retweet 2009 Sep 25
105. Brau-huus cheeseburger http://post.ly/6LUX
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 26 Mood 0
106. Waedenswiler beer. http://post.ly/6M93
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 26 Mood 0
107. QOTD from @Beaker: If you market yourself as the shit, you can expect some back when it hits the fan: http://bit.ly/Uk1xj
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 28 Mood -1 🙁
108. The new borderless Quicktime X window is actually quite nice.
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 28 Mood +3 🙂
109. Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) http://post.ly/6XkN
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 28 Mood +2 🙂
110. Crash test: 1959 Bel Air vs 2009 Malibu http://post.ly/6Xpp
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 28 Mood -2 🙁
111. The industrial-strength paper shredder in the office gives a highly satisfying sense of destruction.
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 28 Mood -3 🙁
112. Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile http://post.ly/6YEd
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 28 Mood +2 🙂
113. …in reply to @elsua
     @elsua On the other hand, I don't think your employer blocks any of them, or do they? They don't here in Zurich at least.
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 29 Mood -1 🙁
114. Just finished watching House Season 6 opening. Good stuff.
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 29 Mood +3 🙂
115. Also, I learned today that a good friend from grad school, and who used to work for HP, now works at IBM.
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 29 Mood +4 🙂
116. @doctorlinguist So what's the proper term?
     Permalink On twitter.com Mention 2009 Sep 30 Mood 0
117. I love @github even more after the move (it's blazing fast), and love the very open, informative updates from @tekkub http://bit.ly/7T3T8
     Permalink On twitter.com 2009 Sep 30 Mood +6 🙂
118. RT @waybis: Odd Russian Space Rituals http://bit.ly/QC27q
     Permalink On twitter.com Retweet 2009 Sep 30