I just finished Foucault's Pendulum. It was at times thought provoking, and often entertaining, but if I had to sum it up in a word it would be "pointless."

Apple is a UNIX right? So it has cron.

Well, sort of. They've witten their own terrible replacement, and the support for "legacy", ie. UNIX cron is busted out of the box.

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launchd replaces a bunch of crufty but documented and transparent process management tools ( Read more... )

( More in the continuing series of mac usability failures )

Debian, I love you, but you need to speed up your release process a bit ( Read more... )

I was reading an article about the state of the SF Bay area housing market ( Read more... )

First, this isn't about anyone in particular. I get lots of evites.
I don't like evites. I dont' like evite.

• Evite messages don't say where or when the event is.
  
• Tracking whether I read the actual invitation is creepy.
  
• The way evite sometimes hides who sent the message obnoxious
  
• I've gotten spam on addresses only evite knew about. Conclusion, ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I forget that I'm a second class citizen. Thanks for the reminder, california.

Mormonism stands for bigotry, hatred, the removal of civil rights, and against the concept of brotherhood and equality for all. They stood against racial equality for many years, and now they have asked their members to damage their own financial well being to spread hatred and damage into the lives of their fellow countrymen ( Read more... )

I'd like access (remote or local) to an xp 64 box somewhere, with IE7 insatalled.
I will need about 2 minutes of its time.

Alternatively if you want to do the legwork, you'll need to hit a url or two, maybe
copy and paste some text or take a screenshot.

Anyone got it? (I don't!)