January 28th, 2008 |
Published in
My Work, Software, Tools I Use, Unix
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p>DTerm: give your Mac a little shell love”
DTerm is a utility just released by Decimus Software Inc. It’s a Leopard-only app that provides a hotkey-triggered HUD which allows shell commands to be run from anywhere in OS X. In case you’re wondering why, just imagine what less window switching and screen clutter could mean for productivity on jobs that require both Finder and Terminal. Yes, you can do a lot with Quicksilver, but DTerm provides bash name completion with a dropdown, context sensitivity to your current path and full output with clipboard features. You can also type ⌘-↩ in the HUD to run the command in the Terminal, which will open up to your current path.
This is a very addictive application for the geekiest around you. Well not totally the geekiest, because they might not know what a ui is other then a terminal window….
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
January 28th, 2008 |
Published in
Code Development, Developer, My Work, Products, Tools I Use
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p>Bingodisk and Strongspace: What Happened?
The past 10 days have not been the best days at Joyent. Bingodisk and Strongspace went off-line 12 Saturday. Bingodisk service was restored eight days later on 19 January. Strongspace limped back into service late 21 January, nearly ten days after it went off-line. Customers of these services are rightly outraged by the outage. While Strongspace and Bingodisk represent a very small fraction of Joyent’s entire infrastructure, we understand how critical it is to many of you, and have been working and investing many, many hours to bring these services back on-line as expeditiously as possible. I apologize for the outages.
This is an important read on a couple of fronts.
- it really helps one to understand the dangers of putting all your backup plans in a single ‘cool’ technology
- that the really hard part about a problem that requires restoration from a back up is the restoration
- that this kind of transparency about a problem will probably go a long way for Joyeur.
It should be noted that I am the owner of a couple of lifetime plans with Joyeur and really like most of their services.
(Via Joyeur.)
