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January 20, 2002
Great jumping piles of convoluted file system goodness. Every single day is new adventure with the Qube. Tonight, I finally managed to figure out where Webalizer was depositing all of the daily server statistics. I knew that they had to be somewhere within reach of the web server, but I never imagined that they’d be … More
January 19, 2002
Damn. Something is just starting to sink in. I now have a real computer to use at the office. I now have licensed copies of the software in need to perform required tasks at the office. I now have a voluminous coffee cup perched cheerfully on the desk at the office. I guess that starting … More
January 18, 2002
And yes, Mac OS X is installed by default on my new G4. Look out world.
January 18, 2002
Craig Linton takes a quick, pointed look at the usability of Mac OS X, specifically targeting aspects of everyone’s favorite interface whipping boys, the dock and the window widget. All well and good you might say. But then he gets all crazy and starts into offering viable solutions on making them better. What the hell’s … More
January 17, 2002
As much as I laud Digital Vision for the pixelated chutzpah of their new Infinity series of royalty-free, layered Photoshop-format stock images, their claim that they are the first to offer such a product is just so much balderdash. Back when layers were actually listed as a new feature in Photoshop, the design team that … More
January 16, 2002
Note to self. The meticulous thinning out of household files disguised as efficient recycling is not necessarily a good thing. In the future, an attempt should be made to keep all canceled cheques for a period of no less than six months. Trust me, it’ll just work out better in the long run. People will … More
January 15, 2002
My apologies for all the confusion, kids. My use of and involvement with Radio UserLand has nothing to do with streaming audio or my capabilities as a disc jockey. Although to be honest, part of me wishes it did have something to do with it.
January 15, 2002
Need something to do tomorrow morning? Why not trundle off to Menlo Park and attend the public liquidation auction of the once proud Be, Inc.? Maybe you can pick up one of them fancy eVilla kitchen sticky-note holders things. It might look good on the mantle, too. Heck, this could be your last change to … More
January 14, 2002
Using some sort of automated rubber glove inspection, the Open Relay Database decided to tag the Newted Community server as operating as an open email relay. What does this mean? Unless I can sufficiently close the relay so that the ORDB probe dogs think that everything is hunky dory again, the newted.org, newted.net, and newted.dyndns.org … More
January 14, 2002
Voilà! Mac OS 9: Command-Shift-0 Puts System to Sleep