Ghost in the Machine

Have you updated iTerm recently to find that your preferences are blown away? Feeling a rise in blood pressure because your bookmarks are gone?

Waaaaaah!

Never fear, you can get them back.

The recent iTerm update is using a different .plist filename, so just:

mv ~/Library/Preferences/iTerm.plist ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.iTerm.plist

And you’re all set. See ticket 2064198.

Another miscellaneous, marginally useful post that hopefully saves someone’s day.

I happened to be able to get a couple of the new Seagate Momentus 2.5″ 7200rpm 320GB laptop hard drives from PC Connection.

After a 20-minute upgrade following these instructions for replacing a MacBook Pro hard drive I ran xbench and below are the results, in case anyone cares.

A couple of tips:

• Don’t get the drives with G-shock if you’re an MBPro user
• No, there shouldn’t be any jumpers set on the drive.

Eric Meyer updated his reset css in January 2008. I’ve re-sassified it here.

Sass CSS Reset Revised

download

// reset-revised.sass
// Generated 04/07/2008
// yong joseph bakos
// This is a sassified version of Eric Meyer's latest reset.css
// http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/01/15/resetting-again/
//
html
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent

body
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent
  :line-height 1

div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent

blockquote
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent
  :quotes none

pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent

del
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent
  :text-decoration line-through

dfn, em, font, img
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent

ins
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent
  :text-decoration none

kbd
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent

q
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent
  :quotes none

s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent

ol, ul
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent
  :list-style none

li, fieldset, form, label, legend
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent

table
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent
  :border-collapse collapse
  :border-spacing 0

caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-size 100%
  :vertical-align baseline
  :background transparent

*:focus
  :outline 0

If you’d like to display certain Unix directories within your Mac’s Finder, don’t use

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

which clutters your finder with every hidden file. Just use

SetFile -a v someFileOrDir

which lets you selectively display whatever you want in OS X’s Finder. (Restart Finder for the change to take effect.)

SetFile is in /Developer/Tools

Update: Sass CSS Reset has been revised.

An associate turned me on to Hampton Catlin’s Haml and Sass — terse, structured representation of xhtml markup and css rules. Not bad work for a guy who used to work with a Canadian vampire! If you’re working with Rails, I highly recommend it. I am a markup snob who is sensitive to white space, and after my initial rash-like reaction to Haml, the itching went away and I grew to like it.

For those that have embraced Eric Meyer’s css reset work, here’s a version of css reset in Sass.

Sass CSS Reset

download

// reset.sass
// Generated 10/1/2007
// yong joseph bakos
// This is a sassified version of Eric Meyer's reset.css
// http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/
//
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-weight inherit
  :font-style inherit
  :font-size 100%
  :font-family inherit
  :vertical-align baseline

*:focus
  :outline 0

body
  :line-height 1
  :color black
  :background white

ol, ul
  :list-style none

table
  :border-collapse separate
  :border-spacing 0

caption, th, td
  :text-align left
  :font-weight normal

blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after
  :content ""

blockquote, q
  :quotes "" ""

So long, and thanks for all the fish.