Computer Crash Results in Corrupt NetInfo Database

With final projects due tomorrow my computer would have a major crash today, only the second time my iBook G4 has ever kernel panicked in four years (both times a result of conflicts with external devices)!
After the crash I was not able to log in to my computer at all. Oddly, it came up with [...]

To Upgrade to Leopard or Not?

Why I’m considering upgrading to Leopard
Mostly it’s the little things that have always bugged me about Tiger:
- It doesn’t lock up the system when searching for network shares.
- Double-clicking events in iCal opens them for editing.
- When renaming a document the file type extension is not automatically highlighted.
- The Finder displays the full path to [...]

Unsanity v. MacFixIt and the Little Guy in the Middle

MacFixIt’s article, Failure to boot after installing Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), has managed to gain a lot of negative press in the Mac web. Unsanity, the maker of APE, a program that MacFixIt consistently recommends against using, has decided to redirect a link (Before installing Leopard, remove APE modules via this uninstall process.*) coming [...]

Making Screenshots

I have to use Windows XP at work and am truly awestruck by how inelegant it is.
Watch this two and a half minute video to learn how to do a screen shot of a segment of your screen in Windows XP.
It involves copying, opening new programs, pasting, selecting, copying, creating new files, pasting, selecting and [...]

German Police Harrass Tor Server Admin

Who is brave enough to run a Tor exit node when this kind of thing happens:
On Sunday morning, 00:15 AM, July the 29th, someone knocked on my door very hard. I just came back from a pub-crawl with a friend from the UK, was quite drunk, opened the door and just heard “Police!”. They entered [...]