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My Move To The Mac (Encapsulated In A Few Brief Tweets)
I had a mini-discussion with Neil Stevens about the genesis of my Mac use, sparked by the news that GNOME is moving to JavaScript as its primary development language. I used to be a strict Linux-only user and tended to look down on Macs as mere playthings. I’ll let the Tweets tell the rest of…
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Export Mailman Subscriber Address Lists Without SSH/Shell Access
I recently had a need to export the contents of a GNU Mailman-based mailing list for WordCamp Philly, so I poked around the web-based Mailman admin interface, hoping to find an easy way to export a .CSV or at least a list of names, to no avail. The only supported, native way is to use…
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From The Dep’t Of Unintentional Hilarity
I don’t think the hiring committee really knows what it’s asking for on this one. “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. RedHate leads to a general dislike of humanity and root access.”
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…To The Dump, To The Dump, To The Dump Dump DUMP!
That’s right, folks, it’s time for another browser-clearing session ’round these parts, so strap in and enjoy. What’s worse than finding out that a former classmate was published in Linux Journal? Finding out that he works for Google and races BMWs on the weekends, of course. Hi, Laz! The world’s oldest profession? Not recession proof.…
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Just Call Me MacGyver: Systems Administrator
I’m working a bit late today as I had to schedule some downtime for a critical piece of hardware that needed to be powered down, lightly disassembled, have a part replaced and then powered back up. As I unscrewed the part to be replaced, I thought to myself “Boy, it’d sure stink if I dropped…
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First-Rate Geeky Command Line Head-Smackage
WARNING: GEEKY CONTENT AHEAD If you have no desire to read about login shells, Linux, source code management or other similarly geeky content, you’d best be skipping this one. -ed. Have you ever allowed a nuisance to go on for literally years simply because you couldn’t be bothered to do enough research to effectively nip…
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This’ll Help Convince The Feds To Adopt Linux
Via Slashdot, I saw a story about Richard Stallman convincing Cuba to adopt Linux. Linux companies and Linux advocates have been struggling against a reputation as mere software Communism – good thing Open Source Software’s strongest “advocate” (RMS) has gone and proved the case to be, well, true. Gah.
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Burnination, The Follow-Up
With apologies to Trogdor: Shortly after I posted my review of Toast, I stumbled across a comparison review of a few of the top Mac burning software packages. Toast makes an appearance, as do Burn and two others, as well as a 5th one that was suggested in the reviews’ comments (LiquidCD) which got me…
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Computing News And Notes
A few small compuer-related things have popped up over the last few days and I thought I’d take a second or two to jot down my observations for the benefit of all you fellow Intertron users out there. Apple’s recently-released 10.4.8 update to Mac OS X added a nifty “zoom using scroll wheel feature, allowing…
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U.N.helpful
Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald really took it to the French in re: their hypocricy in Lebanon in recent days. To wit: In recent weeks, France stepped forward to act as a broker of peace in Lebanon. “Act†is the key verb in that last sentence, as it now would seem that the only…