Phil Swenson's Blog

How to de-suckify Mac's "ifconfig" command

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:08:14 -0600

How to de-suckify Mac's "ifconfig" command:

I’ve always despised the default output from the mac’s ifconfig command. Here is an example (too heinous to post to tumblr directly):

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kqRpXjX8

and after applying the macosxhints script (see http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20100604064451501):

zoso:~ phil$ getnet.sh

Public IP: 174.51.32.32
Hostname: zoso.local

Wired Ethernet (en0)
———————————-
IP Address: inactive
MAC Address: 58:b0:35:f2:65:66

Wireless Ethernet (en1)
———————————-
IP Address: 192.168.1.106 (DHCP)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.1.1
DNS Server: 68.87.85.102, 68.87.69.150
Search Domains: hsd1.co.comcast.net.
MAC Address: 58:b0:35:6a:59:f5
Speed: 54 MBit/s

.svn

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:26:00 -0600

The worst thing about Subversion is it stores .svn files inside your source code. What a terrible idea! Luckily Git stores them outside the source - where they belong.

My lifesaver today: “find . -name .svn -exec \rm -rf {} \;”

My iPad review: Easier to type than expected. Fast as hell,...

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:50:09 -0600

My iPad review:

Easier to type than expected. Fast as hell, which helps make it extremely usable. A little heavier than I would prefer (at least for one handed reading). I wish the screen was higher res as the text isn’t nearly as sharp as print. With an iPad you tend to hold it closer than you would a laptop, so the effective resolution is lower despite the higher DPI. Not a deal killer, but I hope v2 has higher resolution. Will be great for viewing photos, viewing movies, and surfing on the couch.

Good start.

Pay $200 for a whiteboard or get this?

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:22:24 -0600

Pay $200 for a whiteboard or get this?

My copy of Rework just arrived. Now I can learn how to get rich...

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:14:59 -0600

My copy of Rework just arrived. Now I can learn how to get rich by slacking and under-delivering.

65 degrees on Monday, 9 inches of snow on Wed

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:25:50 -0600

65 degrees on Monday, 9 inches of snow on Wed

Wow. Just when I had written off Adobe…. Very cool stuff...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:23:26 -0600

Wow. Just when I had written off Adobe….

Very cool stuff with Photoshop CS5.

Google Chrome

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:04:35 -0700

I’ve been frustrated with Firefox for a couple years now.

Firefox kept getting fatter and fatter. It was taking me 2-3 minutes to start and 2-3 minutes to shut down. Way too often I was finding Firefox taking over my whole machine. It wasn’t uncommon to see 70% CPU and over a gig of memory consumed.

Then I tried Chrome. Chrome is what Firefox used to be - lean and fast. It’s still a bit flakey on the Mac, but at least if I have to bounce it, it shuts down and starts up very quickly. Performance seems much better than Firefox in general, and its one process per tab model keeps me from having to kill the whole browser for one rogue site.

It seems that Firefox is irrevocably broken. Every release is supposed to fix the speed and memory problems - but they seem to just get worse.

I predict within a couple years Chrome will replace Firefox as the dominant non-IE browser on the web. Hopefully it will help continue the steady decline of IE to irrelevance.

Photo

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:05:39 -0700