Supercollider + Safari 4.0 beta = bad

I installed Safari 4.0 beta this morning and later found that Supercollider would crash when I tried to open the help browser (html rendered by webkit). Returning to Safari 3 fixes this problem.

Maybe those crazy Apple engineers will fix something and everything will be ok!?

Internal MIDI Bus in Mac OS X

Suppose that you have a Pd program which outputs midi data that you want Ableton Live to receive. In Mac OS X you can create an internal midi bus and then set it as the output for Pd and the input for Live! First, go into Applications/Utilities/Audio Midi Setup. The IAC Driver (Inter Application Connection or something like that?) is Mac OS X's internal midi device designed for this very purpose! Double click on the icon to look at its properties.

Now in the Ports section you can press ``+" to add a new port, you can rename it if you like. Finally make sure that the ``Device is online" checkbox is selected. 

Now just set the midi output in Pd to the new IAC bus and activate track and remote (or whatever) in Live. All done!

Laserjet 1022n in Leopard

I updated to Leopard last night on my iBook G4 and was thrilled to find that my printer drivers had been deleted. After a furious search I found a press release from HP indicating that Leopard was supposed to delete old printer drivers and use newer built in drivers, supposedly there is a driver for my HP Laserjet 1022n but I couldn't find it.

Upshot - I installed the old driver package from HP support and it works fine.