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My life would be so much easier if everything could be tab-completed.

...is beautiful, and fast, and useful. However, it has a tiresome bug. Frequently the Airport wireless connection will drop, and on reconnecting it will fail to hand out an IP address. This is true whether my base station is set to act as a dhcp server itself or whether it is bridging to my linux box for dhcp. The Macbook just sit there with its ( Read more... )

The hard drive on my 15" Aluminum Powerbook G4 is clearly defective and has been for some time. It likes to hang and say "disk0s3: I/O error" into the logs at times when certain files are touched. The Disk Utility thinks the drive is fine and so does the "SMART" status. Maybe a cable is loose in there. The voice of authority in the form of dr_strych9, who ( Read more... )

My .mac membership will renew in 22 days and and I don't think I'll keep it. I don't need the email or the net storage, and the backup was the only thing I really liked. I'd successfully restored my settings more than once after some mishap. But everything else was either redundant for me or just missing. They kept promising all kinds of cool ( Read more... )

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As described in this post on lj_dev. Hit me up if you wanna play too.

cataptromancer has posted an improved version of the earlier Latin translation of Vanilla Ice. Please go read it now.

I made a shirt on zazzle: http://www.zazzle.com/products/product/product.asp?product_id=235626911138507916

On the front it says "Software is Speech" and on the back it has the 1st Amendment in binary.


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My old server, which is actually a Gateway desktop machine from 1997, has an old SCSI card in it. It's an Advansys. The Linux driver for this card hasn't been updated in forever. There are apparently problems with the driver, although I have had none ( Read more... )