This is the size of a file that can surely fit on a DVD-R formatted with a UDF v1.02 filesystem.
(I just tried it)
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Mounting a Sparseimage with Automator in OS X
Friday, December 23, 2011
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup the Mini to an encrypted sparse image. OS X 10.6 used to mount the image automatically but quit doing so and I can’t figure out why. In lieu of that I built an Automator script to mount the share so that CCC could mount the image. That worked until upgrading to 10.7.
My final solution was to add a final step to the script asking the user to mount the sparse image manually.
This site showed how to do so like this:
tell application "Finder" to display dialog "Empty Trash" with icon 2
Emacs like expression evaluation in Emacs
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
A lot of people would like Emacs style evaluation of code in DrRacket.
This document explains how to do it.
(via racket-users)
Generating pretty diffs for LaTeX files
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Easily change the backgrounds of iCal and Address Book in OS X 10.7
Saturday, December 17, 2011
10.7 introduced “leather bound” iCal and Address Book.
This student’s app changes them back.
Might even donate a little something to him for saving you the trouble.
Chibi Scheme Build for an OS X library and iOS REPL
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Meng Zhang set up project files for building Chibi for OS X and an iOS REPL here.
With virtually no iOS knowledge I just checked it out, built it, and ran it on the simulator in a couple of minutes.
Thank you Alex and Meng!
(via chibi-scheme)
The Pioneer plaque
Monday, December 12, 2011
The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial life. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft.[1]
The Pioneer spacecraft were the first human-built objects to leave the Solar System.
You can buy replicas here.
(via wikipedia)
Distributed Computing with Gambit
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Here is the link; the source has a lot more.
(via comp.lang.scheme)