Dr Fragen in the operating room
  • Using tabs

    A great tip: I use Radio’s News Aggregator and always open links in new windows (or new tabs), so the aggregator page remains visible. Sometimes I forget to Command-click a link, and end up replacing the aggregator page without intending to. The post I linked to doesn’t describe exactly how to modify Radio’s templates, so…

  • Configuring Apache

    [Five tips for configuring Apache][1]. Builder.com: “This article presents five brief tips for tuning and configuring your Apache 1.3 or Apache 2.0 server. We will examine the following strategies: tuning of Apache’s accept() serialization, threading with Apache 2.0, SSL session caching with mod_ssl, optimizing the keep-alive timeout values, and examining server load to be able…

  • Programming books

    > [Programming Books][1]. I sometimes get email asking me about how I learned to be a Mac developer. Here’s a list of books that have been most important to me. > * [Learn C on the Macintosh][2] by Dave Mark taught me how to program in C. Knowing C, even in this age of Java…

  • Offline Toggle

    I think I finally got the osxOfflineToggle script to behave. I was calling tcp.setOffline and it, in turn, was running the callbacks. The callbacks didn’t like being run every minute and choked the system. Now I just set the appropriate items directly. Still a bit more testing.

  • Outage

    Well, the outage appears to be over, for now. Dave says things are wrapped together with baling wire and duct tape so we’ll see how long it lasts. Fortunately it lasted long enough for me to reupstream my blog. “;->”

  • UserLand down

    Unless you’ve been in a large hole somewhere you know that some of UserLand’s servers are down. Notably the server that runs the RCS, Radio’s cloud. What does it mean? Well, for starters none of your posts, including this one, will be upstreamed. I don’t believe that any of the RSS feeds will be there…