Today the command line audio utility sox gave me some head aches while I was working on some sample files for a listening test I prepare for my current research.

Some days ago, I reported about my freezing Mac while using Logic Pro 8 and upgrading to Logic Pro 9 to avoid the problem.

I just found my good old crontab template, which provides some nice formatting and documentation features. Just for our convenience, I paste it in here.

While using it for quite a while now and without serious problems, Snow Leopard seems to work together with Logic Pro 8 no longer! It’s really suspicious, that it suddenly began to crash almost every time, I wanted to use it and several reports from other users seem to prove the same:

Yesterday I stumbled over a problem using XCode 3. I was caused by a library, which was based on plain Makefiles. I tried to use this library in my XCode project, but anyhow, I always got the same error while linking.

Recently, I found a page describing how to import audio boooks into iTunes. Well, today, I tried it myself using iTunes 9 and it can be much easier now (since iTunes 9?)

If you need to or just want to work with R and have no idea how to start, this page should be a good starting point…
Cheers, iss

Today I fixed a problem with a bash-script I was using for quite a while now, which refused to work correctly under Mac OS X 10.5 (maybe other versions as well). The Problem was, that an sed script did not substitute, what it ought to.

The Mac OS X Terminal is not a terminal, as other *nix users might be used to. Things like history-search-backward/forward, word-wise jumping, terminal window scrolling by page-up/down - all these are disabled by the standard terminal settings.

Today I needed to send a mail to a mailing list, which I joined using an old mail address, which turned into an alias only address a while ago. I hence needed to send a single mail to the list with this old address and did not want to add it as an identity to my mail application - it simply wasn’t worth the effort.