Better ad blocking than PithHelmet for Safari

Save userContent.css somewhere like home:Library:Safari) and then launch Safari.  Go to the Preferences... menu item, and choose the Advanced tab.  Use the stylesheet popup to choose the new userContent.css file.  And it works, without even restarting Safari. All ads gone.

I have to admit I got tired of PithHelmet, always telling me how many ads it has blocked. Bye bye PithHelmet.

And here for how to add the same as customized ad blocking as you want in any other browser.

Internet statistics

Now they say that emails pose threat to IQ (my mum is a living proof TV is a far worse influence for intellect), and that kids with internet at home learn worse than those who have only books home... adults have no clue what their minors are bwrowsing, and those who think they have a clue the results for kids are worse. and they amazingly found out that people who don't need to use internet for work, use it mostly for browsing.

Links for the bored surfer

I remember when I was a kid, I used to go to a physical library often, and loan a bit pile of books often, spending a lot more time in the public library than in my parents living room.

Now that I'm older, i do miss the libraries sometimes. But when I find something equally interesting in the net, I will be entertained the same way for hours and days. Like yesterday, feeling a bit icky and feverish, I ran to these libraries, which for sure entertained yesterday and will entertain today and so on. The same "I want to read this all" (skipping the annoying parts), which I had not encountered for a long time in the material not regarding work.

So some of the articles that are interesting... (random new ones).

So, a new way of looking at the Bible, with its errors, discrepancies, #2, and incests and so on, John Paul II history, far different from the pope John XII, or from Pope Linus, John Paul I, John VIII / Joan (the first female pope), occult stuff (like numerology, Nostradamus and witchcraft).

September 11 theories #2, Carlyle Group and an interesting trivia about Osama Bin Laden - his father dies in plane crash, San Antonio TX in 1968.

Area 51 theories, terrorism in general and techniques, generic conspiracy theories, American concentration camps and something hilarious about the temp agencies.

Eunuchs, incest myths, the folder of generic sex and links to a lot of concepts and trivia about it, SARS... interesting enough surfing to keep me inside the house all day, when it is a barbeque weather outside.

Apple-Expo Paris 2005 registering open

Apple-Expo has opened the registering for this years expo (20-24 September, in Paris).

Tiger and new stores

Next Friday, 29 April, Apple Store Birmingham (UK) will open. That is the second official retail store of Apple in Europe, and the only others that are outside US* are the stores in Japan )full list). That occurring the same day OS X 10.4 will be released makes it sound like a very interesting night for the sales for both Bullring, and all other retail stores. At least Longhorn will not compete for Tiger for a long time, since it will take another year and a half before it will out for public.

Vivek Sambhara leaked out the 10.4 pre-release to p2p networks earlier, was caught for it, and I am amazed he is not in any more trouble for that.

* More stores in Texas will open later this year.

Mac OS X viruses part 2

Back to the topic of Mac OS X and computer viruses / virii... Interestingly Wired faces the same concerns. The bigger market share, the bigger interest in writing viruses. Also for just commercial point of view -- the anti-virus industry is not that innocent either. After all, they sell the software, make money out of it. At least on the pc side.

Mail.app alternatives (gnumail, mutt and so on)

I want to change the email client from mail.app to something that I like more. No clue which to go for, so I have to try the various options on the list

Mutt is great, when you don't mid using vim .. it is actually very effective too - however I think to make that work, to bypass the firewalls etc it may take some effort again.
Gnumail isn't bad, maybe my 2nd option, if it runs on 10.4.
Sweetmail looks funny.
Thunderbird felt cheap, and the integration with addressbook was poor, I used it a year ago, and didn't like it - M tried it in January, and it hasn't improved its usability. However it still bypasses all the MS provided options. For some reasons I do want to not have nay Mircosoft products on my Mac at all, so there is no reason to go to Entourage -- call it not accepting the end user licence (when there is the site licenced version), and if that is not enough, then the unwillingness to have zombies running on my system. (The only times I had zombie problems was when I had MS office installed - OpenOffice may be ugly, but no zombies).

Mutt seems so far the best. Even though mail.app's search is not a joke any more, it still lacks options I need, does not allow me to control everything, and amazingly the most satisfactory experience of all email clients goes to the one with least gui. So it's all in you key strokes which ever will be the fastest and most versatile to use.

There doesn't really feel to be anything out there that I would like more. At least of any unix, open source or other free versions. Time to create your own, or accept what is out there. Let's see what I decide within a few weeks - probably it will be mutt + vim.

Devonagent doesn't like me

Devonagent doesn't want to work for me. It does not make any sense... doesn't work at home with the Powerbook - ok, I am behind APX, but it doesn't work at work either - behind an interesting firewall. It can not be nor APX since Sergio has it running behind APX and linksys, and I saw people at work test it under similar network / firewall settings. So at work it does not run neither on the G5 nor on the eMac. All with the same error - does not find any data.
It can't be even using a weird port, since otehr people with same settings and from same location get it work. I don't get it.

Pipes trigger panic

Interesting things behind and challanging kernel panics.

Burn away

I don't know how long can I keep the current pace in the life. Work around the clock to numb the pain, and at work and home and asleep and everywhere, be reminded of what I don't want to know (what I can't deal with, what I can't control over life, what I just have to get over), and just keep going until I crash. I crash asleep every night, don't ever get enough sleep, and during the day for this, I notice my brain is sometimes not working in any given language.
I can be days without feeling hunger, and I can't imagine it not becoming even more chronic.
I feel sucked out of energy in the life. Like a candle reaching its end.

Kernel panic on a Sony Ericsson P800 (Symbian phone)

I had something that I would call a kernel panic on my phone today.

Program closed "Program AppArcServer =Thread Reason code: KERN-EXEC Reason number:3" more specificly.

I did not know a symbian phone could have a kernel panic, but you learn something new every day. I also learned what had caused it - some application that wants me to go and download more (paid) applications - the program relaunched after I had restarted the phone (after removing the battery to be able to shutdown it). No thank you. If I want any applications, I go look for them. It tried the "It is highly recommended that you.." as if there were any real updates. No thank you program, please do not launch ever again unless I ask you to.

Mac OS X virii & Automator

Automator scares me.
It's a cliché to say that there are no virii for OS X. That's how it is now, and I am amazed so far no one seems to have fully understood the malicious potential of Automator. Must be that the developer mind is innocent, so all the preadded command pieces in Automator are only innocent, and can be used just to increase productivity. Right. Just don't analyze how you could actually use the code, and let all those "send to everyone in AddressBook", "mass mail", and commands that I don't comment (being able to apply unix commands has the most potential) float in the mind, on the level of just optimizing your PDF workflow...
Execute unix commands, delete files, transform them to other formats, apply the mass emailing to anything, ... the potential scares me. Writing workflows may have never been easier (except if you ever bothered to learn e.g. AppleScript basics?), but on the flipside it looks that anyone on AOL user level is able to write his (I do classify personally everything that enables massmail and deleting files at least potentially malicious) own code with that. Maybe it will need a 13 years old kid to realize with a bunch of C++, Objective-C, or Cocoa to realize the full potential.
If so would be, maybe finally there would be market for OS X anti-virus programs. DIY virii with GUI. How many bad codes, or epidemies, would it take to add a warning to Automator? When will our government make rules about using any scripts at work?
I am still not able to do what I wanted to with Automator - an idea for a script that I had months and months ago. It didn't work then, and it does not work now. But that would have been for my own, positive use. So in Mac OS X there are no virii from 10.0 until 10.3.x. So far. What about 10.4? As long as Automator code can be limited to influence the environment it was created for, and the computer it was created for, probably nothing to worry. Except the mass mailing.

Melancony bytes

Melancony in the musics that put it so much better that I would today with anything coming out directly from my keyboard.

Cuántos amigos ausentes
como yo recordarán...
esas noches de verbena,
esas noches de alegría,
y este tango que se oía
entre copas de champán...
 A pan y agua...

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, Worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, Going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, No expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, No tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
These dreams in which i'm dying, Are the best I've ever had

In my dreams I'm dying all the time
As I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye
This is goodbye
Tell the truth you never wanted me
Tell me
In my dreams I'm jealous all the time
As I wake I'm going out of my mind
Going out of my mind

Even though life has changed a lot in the past few [time], the melancony is still here when I am alone.

Dirty php

Who says you can't program dirty in php?

<?php
/* set level of interest */
$forplay=true;
$sex="sure";
$dirtyPhrase = array["again", "yes, yes", "don't stop","deeper!"];

while (i<10; i++) {
if ($forplay == true) {
smile(true);
flirt(true);
kiss(true);
slap(true);
tickle(true);
squeeze butt(true);
kiss a lot more(true);
} else {
excuse ("I have a headache.");
}

if ($sex == "sure") {
/* undress */
shirt(off);
pants(off);
bra(off);
echo $dirtyPhrase[1];
panties(off);
echo $dirtyPhrase[3];
sex(normal);

}else{
excuse ("cold shower");
}
}

?>

Killing zombies in terminal

Cleaning my iPods. One had all OS untill 8.5 - why would I need them on the iPod? (I wouldn't, if I had any space on my portable hard drive, sigh). Another iPod got just rid of 1.5 GB of Newton software. Shuffle will get rid of everything that is reconverted. And maybe get some space as a USB stick (even though I notice I do 'need' to have memory sticks of the size of a few DVDs).

Among the interesting items I had on the iPods... old chat transcripts. Old photos of my 1/2, and some unix sfuff.
Of those, something useful might be killing the zombie processes.
ps aux | grep Z

Mac OS X essential additions for applications

I promised to make a list of the most used non-prof apps for a friend, and how to install's them, for a newly converted OS X user friend (with Windows and various Linux background). But maybe it will be useful for some others too, so here we go.

CD and DVD burning
You can use Finder, Disk Utility (in Applications / Utilities), or Toast (not freeware), or FireStarter FX (free).

Browsing & Email
Safari is pretty good (came with your system), but you may want to try Camino or Firefox too. An alternative to mail.app of OS X is Thunderbird, which now probably has better Addressbook integration. And Shiira is based on Safari, also worth a try (some more possibilities).

Messengers
AdiumX (free) has AIM, iChat (.mac), ICQ, YIM, msn, Apple Rendezvous, anything you want and you can have multiple accounts on each service, and you can make the gui look exactly as you enjoy. There are a few other alternatives too - Fire (free), Proteus (shareware, works as well free). iChat is of probably enough for you if you use only AIM or iChat messenging, but at least AdiumX is worth a try. And for voice chats and free telephony, try Skype for talking for people with ANY operating system, or via phone. Currently Skype seems to have better audio quality in less than T1 bandwidth than iChat.

Privacy
Privoxy and Tor (bundled to Tor, freeware) may be worth a try. I have home issues with that since I am too lazy to open port 8118 in the wireless base.
For encryption needs, I would suggest GPG (GnuPG), basically a free replacement for PGP. Macgpg is the best and easisest for OS X. (In short: first install GNU Privacy Guard, then PGPreferences, then GPG Keychain access, after that you do want to install Sente.ch mail.app plugin - done it all in that order makes it work, so 30 minutes of maximum hassle, and you have encryption). Thawte is another way of obtaining a free digital certificate, and probably easier to use. If you attach your digital signature to your emails, and have the signature of someone you will send email to, you can encrypt with thawte as well.

Other apps
Subethaedit is a nice free code editor / notepad, with which you can edit the same code with your friends over bonjour/rendezvous or internet. iJournal is a nice editor for LJ, or for generic a href type editing, faster than coding manually for sure - also XJournal seems to be nice.
Search at Apple's site is your friend for trying to figure how to do something with OS X.

Another Saturday evening

La vida es tenerte a ti
Ver que tus ojos tienen ganas de mi
Tu corazon es mi pais
Si me faltaras no sabria vivir
Y no hay dudas
Mi amor ya no tiene cura
Nada tengo si tu no estas
Desde que legaste ya no hay nadie mas
Porque te quiero tener
Una y otra vez , orta vez
Es porque comprendo que sin ti no se vivir

Sounds ickily sweet? I was listening to 80's sweet music all day, such as Laura Pausini and Nek. I ran to the city, planned to do some shopping but I am not me without my other 1/2. This week has been pain, not a morning woken up rested. I turn around and around in my sleep, and the past few days I have cried more than in a long time.
I wish I would wake up, and be full again.

Soledade

Soledad, soledade, solitudine... That is what I feel when I am barely half of me. Or exactly half of me, but the missing half makes me feel that I am no more than 10 % of me, or even less.