... ten years ago, I had to write my own "Modelines" to get Quake 2 to work at the resolution I wanted in Linux ( Read more... )

iTunes plays the music purchased (or downloaded for free) from the iTunes store, without requiring the user to purchase an iPhone or iPod ( Read more... )

ImageMagick, near as I can tell, is very nearly completely useless.

What kind of image manipulation tool doesn't support JPEG?!?

If there were a way to label certain directories as "perpetually write-cacheable" it could significantly speed up the user experience of a computer without significantly increasing risk of data loss (as with so many other write-cached filesystem schemes ( Read more... )

I had to reconnect the Mac Mini to the 40 inch 1080p monitor, because apparently the last time I used the equalizer, I didn't remember to position it correctly before closing iTunes...

The equalizer opens hopelessly off-screen, and I haven't figured out an easy way to retrieve it.

Maybe I could have deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes. ( Read more... )

If you happen to like to use the Internet, Spotlight really sucks the life out of your computer. It's a neat idea, a search engine for your computer. Except it indexes fucking everything any time it changes, which means bittorrent or even a browser with a refreshing web page on triggers it to do its thing, over and over, lagging the computer ( Read more... )

First, let me start by saying that I am in no way implying that a human being at Apple or iTunes did this. I'm fairly certain it happened because of automatic organization in Apple's "Genius" product.

First, I used wget -x -m -np to download the entirety of ytcracker's freely available music; you can too at Read more... )

Setup where problem occurs: Mac Mini with more than one user, when using user switching, on a 1280x1024 LCD monitor rotated 90 degrees (1024x1280 portrait mode ( Read more... )

I just made the mistake of spending my own cash on Office 2008, the so-called office suite from Microsoft ( Read more... )

I got yet another update for QuickTime and iTunes that requires - what the fuck - restarting the entire goddamned computer. Why ( Read more... )