Posts Tagged ‘Hack’

Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script

Posted on May 28th, 2010 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

Just stumbled upon a YouTube clip of one of the best Ignite presentations I’ve seen, by Hilary Mason, a computer scientist at Bit.ly. Mason wrote a series of scripts that auto-respond to email with particular content, and auto-nag folks she’s emailed but hasn’t gotten a response from yet. Hit the play button to hear more. [...]

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Dell Mini 9 with OS X – worth it!

Posted on June 14th, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

Just a quick follow-up to the post on setting up my Dell Mini 9 hackintosh. It’s a great little machine. Yes the keyboard is small and some of the keys are in odd places, but not odd enough to keep me from using it.

Stats: Dell Mini 9, OS X 10.5.7, Safari 4

Having found right away that I needed, wanted, Copy and Paste function keys, I sorted that out. So Command and Control keys work just fine.

I’ve experienced a couple of crashes, but no more frequent than when I was running Ubuntu. Shutting down and restarting is only a minor inconvenience since 1) boot time is quick, and 2) most of what I do is either on the Web, or because I habitually save often, is not at risk.

The most noticeable improvement over Ubuntu is scrolling in the Web browser. Safari is much smoother and offers more control.

I’ve also found the Dell to be pretty rugged. Dropped and kicked on a concrete sidewalk resulted in just a few minor scratches.

Verdict on the Dell Mini 9 Netbook? It makes me happy.