Ever accidentally do an svn checkout instead of an export? Here’s a command-line snippet to take care of those hidden .SVN directories:
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`Warning: Take great care when using “rm ‑rf” always.
Memos from September 2008
Action Method by Behance
Action Method — Splash 20080916, originally uploaded by stechico.
In a recent announcement, Behance unveils its new product called Action Method (AMO). They have spent the past year designing and developing the new platform for productivity and project management.
The system is based on the “Action Method” and the design of our paper product line, but the technology itself is revolutionary. Now being beta-tested by a select group of people and teams, AMO is a web-based application that offers a radically different approach to managing projects and collaborating with others.
Muji Chronotebook
This Chronotebook from Muji is a fresh concept. It was designed by Wong Kok Keong (Orcadesign, in Singapore) and won a Judges’ Prize in Muji’s International Design Awards #2 (May 15 to July 31, 2007).
Diary schedules are arranged in lines and grids, which are difficult to see and has little flexibility. This notebook makes it clear, intuitive and easy to plan and see your daily schedules.
Cool Hunting’s brief write-up on it gives us a qualitative insight on how useful it can be, and how different it can be to what we have been used to:
Beige, minimal, with rounded corners and just small enough to fit in your pocket, the Chronotebook has trademark Muji aesthetic appeal. The clock, located in the center of an open page, is divided in halves by the midline of the book—the left hand white graphic represents AM, while the dark graphic on the right is PM. Not only does the layout illustrate our circadian nature but it forces you to organize tasks according to the time of day they need to be done. Overall, it’s easy to look at, simply comprehended and accomplishes a design feat by adding a small feature (a more logical way to break up your day) that has big rewards in functionality.
Anyways, thought I’d share with those of you looking for a new way to organize or log your day, etc.
Happy Birthday Timi!
Timi & Stitch, originally uploaded by stechico.
PS. She does custom knits ranging from beanies to scarves. Click here to visit her Etsy store, aknitimi.
PPS. Her store’s slogan “knitted goodies for the tragically hip”… =) awesome copy.
Comcast Bandwidth-Capping Notification and Solution
With news from different tech/internet-focused sites writing about bandwidth-capping, I finally have received an email from Comcast. They seem to be updating their AUP which mostly adds a clause to whats considered “excessive use of [their] service”. Here’s the email:
Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer,
We appreciate your business and strive to provide you with the best online experience possible. One of the ways we do this is through our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The AUP outlines acceptable use of our service as well as steps we take to protect our customers from things that can negatively impact their experience online. This policy has been in place for many years and we update it periodically to keep it current with our customers’ use of our service.
On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into effect at that time.
In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that defines excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy because a fraction of one percent of our customers use such a disproportionate amount of bandwidth every month that they may degrade the online experience of other customers.
250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it’s very likely that your monthly data usage doesn’t even come close to that amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater than the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to 3 GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage in one month a customer would have to do any one of the following:
* Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email);
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or
* Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie).And online gamers should know that even the heaviest multi- or single-player gaming activity would not typically come close to this threshold over the course of a month.
In addition to modifying the excessive use policy, the updated AUP contains other clarifications of terms concerning reporting violations, newsgroups, and network management. To read some helpful FAQs, please visit http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/Frequently-Asked-Questions-about-Excessive-Use.
Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet provider.
On their FAQ, this will probably be one of the most asked/searched one:
How does Comcast help its customers track their usage so they can avoide exceeding the limit?
There are many online tools customers can download and use to measure their consumption. Customers can find such tools by simply doing a Web search — for example, a search for “bandwidth meter” will provide some options. Customers using multiple PCs should just be aware that they will need to measure and combine their total monthly usage in order to identify the data usage for their entire account.
But those who have done a search on “bandwidth meter” will only find “speed tests” rather than a log of current/past “true” bandwidth. Even if they find a good “bandwidth meter”, it’s hard to keep track if they are on a network of multiple users. However, don’t fret.
I remember reading up on this a couple of weeks back. This is mostly for those who can install DD-WRT. If you have a Linksys router, you’re in luck as most of their models can be updated to run this mod/hack. Anyways, click here to read up on the Lifehacker article on how to monitor your monthly bandwidth with your router.
I hope that helps, and good luck.