another day, another popen(...) and fflush( ) statement... *sigh*

yup, ive figured out the little problem with NSTask and NSPipe.... and the solution is..... get ready..... DONT USE THEM... yup... thats my solution... so now ive got some fancy cocoa code with a chunk of straight C in the middle of it... but it works... and thats all im worried about. Seems the easiest way to start a process and send data to its stdin stream is by using straight C calls... totally weird... maybe theres a way using cocoa/objective C calls with the apple API, but im damned if i could find it. As far as i can see, NSTask is only good for creating processes with command line arguments, and NSPipe is only good for reading from the processes stdout stream.... try using an NSPipe with stdin and tell me how ya go... go on.. i dare ya to... *sigh* maybe apple will make it easier later on or somthing...
even the all knowing google couldnt find me an example of using NSPipe with stdin stream... it seems my world is falling apart... i didnt think id see the day when the all knowing google would be stumped.. sending back information that does contain my search words, but really does not relate... but thats enough of that.. we shall never speak of it again.

Been marking assignments.. essay / short answer style questions, i thought it would be tough, but it appears that the questions must of come straight out of the book as most people have similar answers....

I think ill buy myself a webcam tomorrow... would be handy to play with and it actually relates to my phd study.. so ill write the bugger off in tax next year :)

Im still waiting on my copy of jaguar - os x.2... when will it come? Apple.. can you hear me? *sigh*

*grumble grumble* - im huuunnngggrrryyyyy!!!!.. hrmmmm

ok, time to go and eat.... again....

hrmmm, well things are going ok... sent off the proposal for the website today, read through it like 5 times and was happy with it so its gone.. now i wait and hope they go for it... *fingers crossed*

run into a brick wall with the vpn thingy... seems that getting an NSTask and NSPipe to send info to an interactive terminal app isnt as easy as i thought... grrrrrr... no ive got to find another way to do it.

I found out today that my new mobile can work with yahoo messenger... damn cool... so ill make good use of it while my free wap/gprs is still going..

Also installed windows XP service pack 1.. and surprisingly it didnt frig anything up. It seems microsoft have added a new 'feature' where you can get rid of microsoft programs and use different ones if you want, i.e. if you dont want i.e. it will 'hide' it and let you use some other browser... the thing that annoys me is that it doesnt actually remove the shite, but just hides the damn shortcuts from the desktop/quicklaunch/start menu... what a crock.. what i wouldnt give for a program that will uninstall all the shit that comes with windows xp.. i mean who really wants windows movie maker installed by default with no otpion to remove it... sheesh...

hrrrmm, im feeling like some ice cream... might go for a drive and get some...

whew, its been a few fast packed days. Went and saw some people about a possible webpage job, things are looking good. Just gotta get the proposal done and drop it in to them, im planning on doing that by tomorrow.

Been working on the uni VPN thing, found out yesterday that the way i was authenticating was a bit dodgy, so ive scrapped that idea and going with something else now. Im confident the new way will work. Other then that i have the spawning off a new task to run the client which is funky, i just gotta read up on the inter process communication, but i had a little look earlier and i think it will be ok.

Went and saw my phd surpervisor today.. damn ive been slack with it... i havnt donw squat in the last 3 weeks, bu wih everything thats been going on its kinda tricky. I figure i need to concentrate on the job side of things for a while.. then i can worry about the phd side of things.

I think ill go check out a movie tonight, got a mate whos dropping by so that might be cool. I went and saw "the sum of all fears" and "signs" on the weekend. "The sum of all fears" is inda long winded, like the story goes on and on and then suddenely the bomb goes off and the baddies are killed and the credits roll... hrmmm "signs" on the other hand was way cool, totally unexpected what happens in it... and i must say it is a bit scarey... he he

righto... ive gotta be off and get some food, Jerry springer is almost on and we all know that that is a MUST SEE tv show.. :)

yay!, lunch time!