NNTP readers on OS X are …

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


nice marmot

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


Word of The Day: Pile

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


Text editing for fun and …

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


Updating WordPress with libssh …

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).


primo blanco (el gringo)

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:


how to lose my business in …

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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