January 11, 2002
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Today is January 11th. Tomorrow is HAL’s fifth birthday. We should maybe have cake.
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January 10, 2002
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Hello? Does anyone know what happened to Luke Tymowski’s QubeQuorner site?
January 10, 2002
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After deftly clearing off just enough room on the old carte de plastique, I placed an order for the Mac system that I’ll be using at my new gig. And yes, if you really must know, it’s a decked out quicksilver G4 tower with dual 60 GB drives and a Cinema Display. Poor me. At … More
January 10, 2002
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Microwhoring. Joe Clark grabs the concept of the text-based ad by the valve stem and proceeds to let out what little air is left in the tires of simple, unobtrusive advertising. One again, he’s probably right.
January 9, 2002
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No new features. No changes to the user interface. No tweaks to the ECMAScript parser. No additional plug-in support. But what the hell, there’s still enough bug fixes under the hood to keep everybody happy. Why? Because Opera 5.0 for classic Mac OS has gone final. Yes, it still renders type smaller than it probably … More
January 8, 2002
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What is the deal with “MacOS Peter’s Server”? The deal is, don’t start mucking about with this configuration string if you want your Mac-using clients to be able to connect to your FTP server. That’s what the deal is.
January 8, 2002
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Ok, now you’ve piqued my curiosity. Amid the regular suspects proffering their wares of university diplomas, free cell phones, and various methodologies for “great growth potential”, I received a peculiar unsolicited missive from a site called puppyni.com. I have to admit that I had never experienced a spam pitch involving puppies before, especially Korean puppies. … More
January 7, 2002
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For some time now, my wife and I have been noticing that on a regular basis, all of the water gets dumped out of the dispenser in our budgie cage. The dispenser didn’t appear to leaking and there is really only one correct way to mount the thing on the cage, so we were at … More
January 7, 2002
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Enough of this already. Can we get back to work now, please?
January 6, 2002
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For goodness sake, all I’m looking for is a simple rack-mountable (read: something that’s 1U in height and fits into a standard 19 inch wide equipment rack…), electronic (read: doesn’t rely on some huge mechanical knob that looks like it came off a vintage Heathkit amplifier…) KVM switch (read: like magic the keyboard, video, and … More