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I’ve gotten Time Machine running (which for the most part works as advertised), but I’ve got a little problem. When I have a lot of data that changes between Time Machine back-ups and it takes a while for Time Machine to copy every thing over (over the 802.11 draft-n network), I get this little window that pops up.

I don’t get the point of it or even why it’s even happening. If the problem was resolved without any action on my part, then why do I keep getting this stupid box pop up? For a notification, it’s a really crappy way of letting me know. If I click on “Continue” it takes me to the configuration screens, which I don’t want because I’ve already configured it and don’t want to re-configure it. Besides, the thermals of the unit shouldn’t even be something I can control. It should just work and if it over-heats then tell me in a manner that’s way more intuitive than that, other-wise don’t tell me at all unless I ask for it.

Anyway, here’s how it’s installed, I don’t see how it could be overheating, as there’s nothing on it or around it and it is in a fairly well ventilated area.

Anybody have any ideas? As of the last time I checked, I’m patched up to the latest versions of everything.

He breaks it out into clear and concise sections and does quite a good job of walking the average person through what Apple has been doing to be Environmentally Green and what they’ve planned for the future.

I for one was quite impressed with the depth covered as well as the general open and candid manner in which the issue was discussed.

What I find to be very interesting is that Apple is also looking at their “Carbon Footprint” (meaning how much green house gases they produce through the course of simply existing and conducting business, which contributes to Global Warming) and how to reduce that over time. I look forward to hearing what Apple has to say about what they’re going to do about their Carbon Emissions when they’re ready to say it. Like a growing number of companies out there, it’s good to see that they are interested in and actively managing what their impact on the environment has been, is currently, and will be in the future.

It’s unfortunate that many other companies view that sort of thing as a necessary evil because they are legally required to do so, and only do what they are legally required to do, and exploit as many loop-holes as they can. That sort of minimalist behavior is extremely counter-productive to the spirit of the regulations set in place and irresponsible at many levels.

I think it would be a great thing to see Apple become a world leader not just in technology and industrial design, but also in green processes and tightly controlling their own impact on the world’s environment.

I would love to support a company and own products from said company that is an industry leader in Environmentally Safe and Sound practices, not only in their manufacturing processes, but also in recycling their older products that are now obsolete and in their overall “Carbon Footprint”.

You can read the whole letter here, or download the PDF version here.

Update: I’ve been watching a lot of the postings on the net about the letter, and I’m a little disconcerted to find out that the focus of quite a few people and sites is that Steve confirmed LED backlit displays. You’ve got to be kidding… get your heads out of the geek porn here people! The purpose and the focus of the letter was to let us know what Apple is doing to be eco-friendly, not to drop snippets about new products for everybody to drool over! Talk about missing the point.

I originally wrote it for an internal application to keep the Techpodcasts.com audio stream synchronized with our feeds, but then realized that with a slight name change and some minor tweaking, I could release it as GPL and have a thin and light podcatcher available to the masses that runs on most platforms. Granted, it’s not a full blown application, and it doesn’t synchronize what it downloads with any of your libraries, but it does make sure that you have the latest podcast downloaded to a known folder and file name.

Anyway, it’s being released as 0.9.23, and I intend to do a 1.0 release at some point after I’ve had a few people try it out and give me feed back.

You can check it out here.

Well, I needed to do just such a thing, and here’s how I did it:

try {
throw new Exception();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}


It’s a great way to just look into the innards of running code at a very specific point in time and this code can literally be placed at any point in any method in Java.

Here’s what a one liner would look like:

try{throw new Exception();}catch(Exception ex){ex.printStackTrace();}

I figured I’d just use System.in.read(), however, it turns out that read() just returns either a single byte, or you have to pass in a byte array for it to use, and it only reads up to the size of the array you passed in, and it isn’t easily converted into a String without all the added crap of the unused array space in the byte array at the end, and therefore is a half stub-like implementation that you need to build on further in order for it to be easily useful in a programmatic sense of simply reading in what I typed and putting it in a String.

You would think that Sun would make it more intuitive to read in a line of text from the keyboard and put it in a String, but they don’t. I actually spent quite some time searching on how to do this until I ran across a solution that makes perfect sense, and works. Here’s an example.

You’ll need to import java.io.* at the head of the class you’re going to use for this little endeavor. I use Eclipse for all my stuff, and I had this in it’s own little package.

public static void main(String[] args) {
	try
	{
		BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
		String input;
		System.out.print("Please Type Something here:");
		input = in.readLine();
		System.out.println();
		System.out.print("What you typed in: " + input);
	}
	catch (Exception ex)
	{
		System.out.print("Ooopsie!  We've had an Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
	}
}

Essentially, what we’re doing here, is taking the raw System.in (which only returns a single byte, or a byte array, both of which are totally useless by themselves), buffering them with a BufferedReader object, which gives us a nice handy readLine() method just like what you would get for reading keyboard inputs in most other languages, and it returns a string, which contains what you just typed in. Very handy.

Now, you could probably code something to do the same thing, and I was about to until I found this little gem of code, and since I’m a really lazy guy when it comes to coding, and this does exactly what I want, I decided not to code something up to do the same thing.

I’m sure this is what Sun had in mind when it comes to prompting a user for input on a console java app, however, they don’t have any examples of code doing so (or even an explanation on how to do it), I found a code snippet on the web from some other guy that was doing something else not related, but he did keyboard input just like what I wanted, so I looked to see how he did it, and did the same thing here.

Java has some real nice things going for it, but also some real bugaboos, just like this one.

And that folks, is how you’d do some keyboard input from a Java console application.

It essentially displays RSS feeds in html using javascript.

Here it is with some extremely minor modifications…


<HTML>
<HEAD>
<script type="text/javascript">
function GetRSSNews(){

myFeeds.innerHTML = feedBody
myChannel.innerText = headNode.item(0).getElementsByTagName("title").item(0).text
}
</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY onload="GetRSSNews()">
<div id="myChannel"></div>
<div id="myFeeds"></div>
</BODY>
</HTML>


Many thanks to HowToDoThings.com and Mr. Wole Ogunremi for this code snippet.

I’m going to use this as a baseboard and modify it for my site… I have a few uses for that sort of thing…

There’s a new stepping of Stereo2Mono up. Version 1.0.2 I did some optimizations to the dithering…

You can get it here

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