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Turned off the ads on BlogsNow. Don’t feel like it right now.

god, they would not be that stupid

malware technology

of course they are

screen

linux

just discovered the

screen

again in linux. It is really nice: One person types screen the next
one screen -x and both type and read in the same session.
That is really nice for remote debugging etc etc.

and it costs?
Nothing
🙂

global umask for Apple os x 10.4 Tiger

Apple

this article speaks indeed the truth
Let’s say you want to make all files you create read writable by all other users then you would set a

umask

in unix. Well, OS X is a bit different here. What worked for me was:

sudo chmod g+w /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
open $!

The plist editor should come up (if you have Xcode installed).
Select the root branch and add a child called

NSUmask

and change its type to

number

save. reboot. enjoy
if you hose your system by doing this, then let me remind you that I don’t take responsibility for that.

It’s true

misc

what people are saying about those zoom lenses.

google blog search

misc

of course it was first on blogsnow

ok, if nothing helps

misc

Since Ka[t]rina did not resepct the pax americana we gonna nuke her and everybody else who dares to question the might of our administration.

using google for notekeeping

Apple google technology

just spent hours with ImageMagick installations that would result in ‘freetype not found’ messages. While the problem simply was that during the source configuration /usr/local/bin/ was not in the path.
And, I should remember when exactly I remembered this.

katrina: the inside view from New Orleans

misc

two Parmedics tell their tale

I should work in advertising

misc

“FEMA – giving disaster a bad name