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 [...]
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Computer Crash Results in Corrupt NetInfo Database
May 18, 2008To Upgrade to Leopard or Not?
October 29, 2007Why 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
October 28, 2007MacFixIt’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
September 24, 2007I 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
September 16, 2007Who 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 [...]


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