pg_dump

2007-04-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
Dear pg_dump, Further to our recent encounter, which I shall summarise thus: % pg_dump --no-owner --clean --create foo > foo.sql pg_dump: [archiver] -C and -c are incompatible options If you're going to bitch at me for passing in incompatible options, you could do worse than t

Dear TextWrangler

2006-06-05 Thread Stig Brautaset
When I ask you to exit please don't put up a confirmation dialogue *behind* your current active window and start bouncing the Dock icon. That's just dumb. Hatefully yours, Stig

Re: Basic18, and interrupt service routines

2006-05-20 Thread Stig Brautaset
On 20 May 2006, at 21:16, Michael Leuchtenburg wrote: ... Unless, of course, you want to index into arrays. For an array of bytes, it's fine - no problem. But if you want to index into an array of two-byte data, ah, now there is a problem. Because, you see, in order to find the pointer to

keyboard layouts and password prompts

2006-01-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
Dear Diary, About a week ago I switched macs and used the migration assistant to move my account over. Since then there has been much gnashing of teeth and wailing in anger. In its wisdom my mac has decided that qwerty is the One True Keyboard Layout(tm) and decided to educate me about it

iPhoto books

2005-11-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
Last weekend I spent hours going through my iPhoto library and put a lot of photos into a book. The intention was to then trim the selection down to a manageable number and eventually get the book printed. I should have known better, but I assumed that "a book is just a special case of an a

Re: Dear Finder search

2005-11-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
On 2 Nov 2005, at 11:25, Peter da Silva wrote: Please to be not sucky! Are you talking about classic Finder search in 10.3 or below, or the new All Your Search Belong To Spotlight in 10.4? I was using the Finder search in 10.4; using Spotlight didn't even cross my mind. Now I see that Spo

Dear Finder search

2005-11-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
Please to be not sucky! Searching for "Foo" in my home directory returns lots of hits, but clicking on each one in turn (and having to do this is almost worthy of a hate on its own) shows that they are each in ~/.Trash. Hmm... so I look for a quick way out to "ignore stuff in Trash", but no

Re: iChat status message crack

2005-10-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
I don't get it. iChat DOES have two lists of unique messages, one for available and one for away. No it does not (at least my version don't). Try editing the status menu and add "foo" to both the available and away lists. Stig

iChat status message crack

2005-10-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
So, I'm in iChat with a status of "available", but with a custom message of "ill", as I'm currently feeling pretty rotten. I'm about to leave the 'puter to get some much-needed nourishment, so I tell iChat to set my status to "away", with a custom message of "ill". And as by magic, nothing