I spent the entire evening trying to make a backup of my boot partition (note the emphasis on “tryingâ€?, as I never managed to get it done). My first three attempts were through Carbon Copy Cloner — each time ended in a kernel panic. I didn’t catch where it happened during the first one, but the next two were when it was in either the /Library or /System directories (I.. Read More
Dubya promotes weak puritanism
Wired News: Bush OKs Smut-Stripping Tech: Bush OKs Smut-Stripping Tech By Associated Press Page 1 of 1 03:00 PM Apr. 27, 2005 PT WASHINGTON — President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at helping parents keep their children from seeing sex scenes, violence and foul language in movie DVDs. The bill gives legal protections to the fledgling filtering technology that helps parents automatically skip or mute sections of commercial movie.. Read More
Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser
Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx — a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others — on Sun’s Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this “unusualâ€? event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor’s door and arrested him. From a mailing list: *sigh* More.. Read More
Time to re-partition…
When I originally formatted the drive in my Powerbook, I was still in the “oldâ€? mind-set of having a spare partition around just to have an extra OS available to boot from in the event my primary failed for some reason. It’s been two years (jeez: have I been using this 17“ *that* long?) now, and having never had a major problem w/ OS X, I think I’m ready to.. Read More
Workplace politics
I steer clear of workplace politics…. or rather, office gossip. The politics seem to work their way to me, and I know they have their place, so I don’t fight the system. If possible, I minimize their impact on me, and as *the* code monkey here at work, I’m usually really successful at it. Until now Today’s wise blogger knows that you’re never truly anonymous, and while I *do* believe.. Read More