Comments for Michael McDaniel's Dawning Awareness

Comment on A break for some fun by Anna

Anna — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:19:12 +0000

Consider me inspired! That school is developing quite a reputation in the animation community. Too bad it is in France (where Jeff has been banned.)

Comment on Apple Remote Desktop Fights with Leopard Screen Sharing by michael

michael — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:00:36 +0000

Sorry to say it is still a problem for me. Now that all my hosts are on Leopard, I’m using the ScreenSharing app directly with some of the hacks out there to give it many of the ARD controls. I don’t need to do the full ARD thing, though.

Comment on Apple Remote Desktop Fights with Leopard Screen Sharing by Charles Fultz

Charles Fultz — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:02:56 +0000

I’d like to know how to get screen sharing to work with ARD enabled. I need ARD running on the hosts I manage, but I’d like to be able to allow users to remotely connect to their currently running desktop session. Have you figured that one out?

Comment on McCain’s Faith-Based Internet Policy by Indirection » Blog Archive

Indirection » Blog Archive — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:00:20 +0000

[…] Michael pointed me at this presentation by Lawrence Lessig: […]

Comment on Flickr vs. SmugMug by brit

brit — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:58:02 +0000

I agree, the two sites are very different and like Doug Tygar said one is more professional oriented than the other one.The only problem is that with some of these sites you can’t get your pictures back after your subscription expires!!! That is why now I want to make sure that if I decide to stop my subscription I could get all my photo in their original sizes.

Comment on Jury Selection by Sue Martin

Sue Martin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:46:11 +0000

Interesting - I had almost the exact same experience today. Friends had previously mentioned to me that because I work in the insurance field I would not be chosen to serve on the jury. I wonder how working in the insurance field could influence my decision in a domestic violence case unless the defense felt that I would be prejudice for the police.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Comment on Jury Selection by 1% of US adults behind bars

1% of US adults behind bars — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:38:25 +0000

[…] guess the prosecution was wise to boot me from the jury after […]

Comment on Obama vs. Clinton vs. McCain by Andrej Gregov

Andrej Gregov — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:18:46 +0000

Thanks for posting. Lessig puts to words what my intuition has been telling me all along about Hillary. I’d love to see a woman president. But Hillary isn’t the right candidate. I think the republicans would have a field day with her if she wins the nomination.

Comment on What a month! by Greg Linden

Greg Linden — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:31:56 +0000

Whew! But congrats on it almost being done!

Comment on Plasma vs LCD by Andrej Gregov

Andrej Gregov — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:08:11 +0000

I’d go with LCD in your room given the glare. I’ve been researching the displays too and everything I’ve heard is that LCDs are pretty much required in rooms with lots of light and glass. The only negative with LCD is that super fast action movement may blur sometimes (eg. sports, action movie). Before you buy, I’d see if you can repro that in hifi store to see if it might bother you just to be on the safe side.

Like the new blog look!

Comment on An Event Apart, Seattle by Jana

Jana — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:05:02 +0000

I had wanted to go to this event but when I brought it up to my manager(s) I found out we don’t have a conference budget anymore. Bummer! It sounds like just the sort of event that would have been the perfect inspiration for me. I’m glad I got to read the summary on your blog.

Comment on Subscribe to this blog via email! by michael

michael — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:34:26 +0000

Rmail rocks!

Comment on Subscribe to this blog via email! by Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:32:35 +0000

Thanks for using Rmail!

Comment on Structure Complete by Greg Linden

Greg Linden — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:16:15 +0000

Cool! Congrats!

Comment on The facade takes shape! by michael

michael — Thu, 17 May 2007 03:52:08 +0000

I’m sorry to say his breeders are not in business any more. His parents are both black, so the brown was a bit of a surprise, but we love it. He’s definitely the most well-behaved of our kids!

Comment on The facade takes shape! by G Stark

G Stark — Thu, 17 May 2007 03:11:51 +0000

Hey Michael,

I got here from the Maktub website. On that site you have a picture of a Portugese water dog. Is he yours? I have a brown wavy that looks incredibly like yours. I live in Montana and am looking for a breeder to get another one. Can you share the breeders name/contact info? Thanks. Glen

Comment on Paperless Office? by michael

michael — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:21:49 +0000

It would sure be nice if they produced optimal output, but the ease of workflow is critical to me. I think the extra step could easily be the downfall of the whole system!

Comment on Paperless Office? by V C

V C — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:22:24 +0000

When I scan a sheet at 600dpi and send it through “Reduce File Size” & OCR in Adobe Acrobat Std 7, I end up with a PDF that’s about 30kb to 50kb. [Scans had to be at 600dpi or greater, otherwise the resulting PDF was much larger. It’s the “Best” setting Scansnap Manager]

When I do the same with DEVONthink Pro Office, I got a file that was several hundred kb in size.

The culprit, from what I could find, was the ReadIris OCR Engine. I got similar results with the standalone ReadIris app.

Perhaps you could try a few test scans before settling on a workflow.

Hope this helps

PS: I used the Fujitsu Scansnap fi-5110EOXM

Comment on For months, I’ve wanted a default alarm for Treo appointments by Alex

Alex — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:39:59 +0000

Thank You

Comment on Foundation is more than concrete by michael

michael — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:32:46 +0000

Yep, and it’ll be tied into the storm drainage from the downspouts as well. With a nice slope to ensure water doesn’t back up into the footing drains.

Comment on Foundation is more than concrete by Andrej Gregov

Andrej Gregov — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:24:48 +0000

Make sure they get that drainage to go all the way around the permiter of the house. It should sit just below the foundation. You should have zero water problems then.

Comment on Tangerine for iTunes by michael

michael — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:22:26 +0000

Enjoying the job, thanks Daniel. I really like working for Apple - it really embraces my customer-first attitude.

On Tangerine, I am still enjoying it. I haven’t had it modify my tunes directly, rather I play stuff within their interface. However, I’d never operate on songs unless I had them backed up. I have an external drive I use for this purpose. Storage is cheap! Back up, my friend!

Comment on Tangerine for iTunes by Daniel Boerner

Daniel Boerner — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:37:50 +0000

Hi Michael, hope all is going well for you in the new job. You should post an update.

It’s been a while since you’ve posted this, and I wonder if you’re still happy with Tangerine? I’d love to have this metadata populated for my tracks, but I’ve got a lot of songs (like 22k), mostly in lossless, and I’m pretty far behind in backups.

Do you think it’s safe to run it against everything? Also, what’s your process for adding this metadata to new stuff? Just run it again?

Finally, do you find you’re able to create playlists using just iTunes once this metadata is present, or are you still creating playlists using Tangerine?

Comment on Non-zsh-nerds may skip this entry by michael

michael — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:44:47 +0000

There’s no real zsh magic here. Should be easy to adapt.

Comment on Non-zsh-nerds may skip this entry by ben c

ben c — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:37:43 +0000

clever! I like it. now to find a way to use it with tcsh.