tim lindner's personal blog

My friend Boisy recently brought to my attention a wonderful web site called Computer Archeology. Christopher Cantrell's site has many disassembles of old programs. But of particular note is the old Color Computer programs with very detailed comments. Go check it out.

I've been writing backup scripts recently. I really like rsync and have been using it with Mac OS X's smbfs quite successfully (under 10.5). But the other day I found some files that were created on the receiving file system but contained no data. I…

Yup.

I also made a page here to document it's progress. Blocks Screen Cast B.mov

I'd like to introduce you to Blocks. It's an application I've had in my mind for a very long time. At it's basic level it is about understanding data formats. Very geeky stuff. I finally have something to show, so I'd like to tease you…