I’m honestly a bit puzzled right now. For some reason, as I was browsing a web page in Safari, the fan in my Macbook started to spin, and it got to the point where it must have been spinning full speed, which is quite loud. I looked at my CPU graph from iStat menus and for some reason, both my CPU’s cores were intermittently running at 100%. First, one core would go to 100%, then …
In these times of hearing all about Iran’s “evil deeds,” this New York Times op-ed piece takes a guess at what their outlook on America could be. Most of it really puts this country into perspective, and I can’t say the future looks too bright.
There are two intelligence analyses that are relevant to the balance of power between the U.S. and Iran — one is the latest U.S. assessment of Iran, which certainly gave …
Since I’ve installed Leopard, I’ve noticed all the bells and whistles people keep talking about, but one part I haven’t heard anything about is the much-improved printing facilities that Leopard introduced. In Tiger, the printer setup was buried in the Utilities folder, but now in Leopard it’s in plain sight in the System Preferences, and it is much easier to use now.
Instead of …
Seemingly months after everyone else has marveled at OS X Leopard, I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. Instead of upgrading, I decided to wipe the disk (backing up first, of course) and do a clean install. The first time, the install went fine, but Leopard hung with a blue screen when I booted it up the first time. So, I wiped the disk clean, …
As stumbled upon through the Akismet blog, Jesper Rønn-Jensen is planning to completely disable his spam filters on December 15. While that may sound a bit crazy, it’s an interesting experiment to see just how much time tools such as Akismet saves you every day.
So, on December 15, which is thankfully a Saturday, I’ll be turning off all spam filters on my blog, namely Akismet and Bad Behavior. As the article also suggests, I’ll also …
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of immense amounts of idiocy. If you haven’t been around the tubes for the past few days, here’s a recap:
Someone posing as “malcor” (blog since removed) claimed to have hacked Glenn Wolsey, a reasonably prominent Mac blogger, and replaced his site with a page linking to the Malcor blog, with a picture of a rotton apple with a worm crawling through it. Next, MacApper was posted on …
