Following up to Apple's retro-bundling thingJust the other day, they came out with an update to QT and iTunes again. Since my Parallels instance has these installed, Apple's Software Update wanted to update this stuff. It also included Safari, which I'd told Software Update to ignore last time ( Read more... )

Instead of bashing Adobe because they didn't want to rewrite ancient software ("But Finder is written in Carbon!"), I present to you: Peeking into Pikachu's Privates.

The latest news includes some new virtual gifts. Among these are signs reading things like "de-friend me" and "Troll me." You also can't keep virtual gifts enabled for just friends (who probably won't give you a "Ban me" sign as a vgift) -- if vgifts are enabled in any capacity, anonymous users can ass up your profile (well, they'll be paying to ( Read more... )

OK, so I realize my iTunes library isn't getting smaller. It also isn't getting any less difficult to play on other devices. But what a pain in the ASS it is to free the music ( Read more... )

To continue the feature creep, LJ have rolled out content filtering. At first, I set the journal default to "explicit" because I want to be able to post anything (within reason), but I've since returned it to "none" because of the default filter setting of "moderate" for everyone's journals. I don't want all my posts to be automagically hidden ( Read more... )

Inspired by this, and possibly speaking to an audience who is either at MFF or on trips, the following poll:

Poll Reach out and touch someoneI allow auto-away (I don't always turn IM off when I should) and idle times (I don't always remember to un-away when I'm there). I manually change the status if it's special, like Invisible or something ( Read more... )

The Best Buy on Strang Line has the Wii on the shelf! Not just one, but about 30 of them. They weren't there this morning according to one guy ( Read more... )

It's even slower when you XMODEM a 13MB file, only to have it FUCK UP ON YOU. I wouldn't have to do this if the route processor recognized the supervisor's slot0:

I should've tried with the boot image, which is only 2MB. I would've saved an hour and a half.

I'm trying to properly print a document which shouldn't be hard to print. But it's coming out like ass ( Read more... )

Leopard's X11 has problems. It's been described as slow, beta and a step backward. (No, the steps to install the X11User that came with Tiger don't work on my system ( Read more... )