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Hee
Consumer Reports says:
"Apple's OS X operating system makes Macs less vulnerable to viruses and spyware than PCs, so you'll possibly experience fewer such problems."
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A favor?
To those friends of mine who use Mac OS X and Fink, can you build the latest version of arts in the 10.4-transitional distribution (specifically, 1.4.3-21)? If so, could I snag .debs for arts, arts-shlibs, and arts-dev from you? It seems like everyone in the world can build it except for me and some guy in Germany running 10.3.9. : P ( Read more... ) -
Life with the parents
I was talking with my parents last night. My father was talking about his work as an electrician, and he used the word "receptacle", meaning (what I thought of as) a power outlet. The following passed between us:
ME: Oh, right. When you say "receptacle" the first thing I think of is waste basket.
DAD: Well, it's called a receptacle because it ( Read more... ) -
Whoa
iTunes 6 already?
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Sweet!
It has long been an irritation of mine that Macromedia had not bothered to write a Flash player for Mac that didn't suck from here till Tuesday. As far as I could tell, a Mac played Flash animations at about a third the speed of a comparable Windows PC. Flash animations were annoying even on my dual 1.8 GHz G5, and Flash games were impossible ( Read more... ) -
Today's Truly Great Thing
Today's truly great thing (courtesy of BoingBoing) is Hamlet done as a text adventure.
Balcony ( Read more... ) -
Tris' First Law of Public Transportation
Buses run at exactly two times:- Two minutes ago, and
- Ten minutes after you need to be there.
- Two minutes ago, and
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Google "is" meme
From martian_bob's journal:
Directions: Type "(your name) is", (with the quotes) into a Google search, cut-and-paste the first 10 responses that work. Just pull the answers right out of the excerpt google shows you, don't click the link and search around. The only rule is that each one has to start with "(your name) is".
And here are mine:- Tristan is an ( Read more... )