In the office where I work we use/maintain a newsgroup server with a variety of internal newsgroups where everything from items for sale to complaints and hassles are posted. Late last year I went pretty much all-Mac, all the time, with a Remote Desktop window connected to a Windows machine in the office which I used for Outlook (because we're an Exchange …
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October 13, 2009 – 1:59 am
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Posted in applications, mac, opinion and libel
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Tagged comparison, Hogwasher, MacSoup, MaxNews, MT-NewsWatcher, Nemo, newsgroups, newsreader, nntp, OSXNews, Pineapple News, review, Unison, Xnntp
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While this would have been better posted to bash, I present a snippet from Triple-Em himself regarding an inadequacy in the standard I/O libraries available to him: 1:37:20 PM Matthew Miller: Think I'm going to write an RFC with the suggestion that we extend the standard 4 option I/O error handling directives -- Abort, Retry, Fail, Ignore -- to …
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Pile n. pahyl a collection of objects laid on top of each other What happens when something is so utterly terrible that it's heaped into a mound of failure, resembling nothing so much as a collection of animal shit, which you've probably just stepped in. Example: The kerfuffle over this subdomain and it's associated implications for the document …
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In the attempt to streamline the process of maintaining the myriad scripts and config files that I use day to day as part of both my day job and my droll hobby. I've used TextMate for everything, which I've previously discussed (particularly using it in conjunction with CSSEdit, which we'll come back to). But this has …
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June 15, 2009 – 1:33 pm
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Posted in applications, editors, mac
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Tagged applications, coda, comparison, editors, espresso, macrabbit, macromates, panic, textmate
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This article was originally about automatic updates over SSH2 not working for me when I upgraded to WordPress 2.8. WordPress 2.9 is out now, and this problem turned out not to be their fault. After filing a bug report and working through it with the WordPress team, a solution was eventually found (see the final update to this post). …
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I'm incredibly ashamed by how little I know about my Puerto Rican family. In an effort to begin doing something about that, I am going here:
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I don't know how horribly relevant this is or how many of you read comic books anymore (yes, they still publish them and yes, some of us still read them) but I just wanted to make good on the old adage about telling 100 people when something goes wrong as opposed to telling 10 when it …
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