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Looks like Opera is going
Looks like Opera is going down swinging. Kind of pathetic.
I’m not defending Microsoft here, but with Opera’s recent “ultimatum” to Apple, this just doesn’t make the company look good.
Not to sound like a
Weirdest thing happened with Scooby,
Weirdest thing happened with Scooby, my PowerBook, yesterday. I lost all audio. iTunes wouldn’t even start playing a track. I figured I’d restart at the end of day to see if that fixed it, but as I was getting ready to do so, I pulled the plug out of the speaker jack (I have Scooby plugged into a nice Harman/Kardan system). All of a sudden, not only did the sound come back, but it played all the sounds it skipped during the day, like they were stuck in some sort of buffer. Weird.
Today I had to reset the power manager, because I’ve had it with the weird sleep problems with this machine. Hopefully this will fix it. If not, time for a clean install of Jaguar, unless 10.2.4 comes out and fixes my problems by some chance.
If you ever have to reset the power manager on a PowerBook G4 (DVI and later models), take the keyboard off. The reset switch is under the keyboard, in the upper left hand corner.
Wow! I just installed Youpi
Wow! I just installed Youpi Key, a free piece of software for Mac OS X. Very cool! Reminds me of QuicKeys from “back in the day” (you know, 1993; holy crap, I’ve been using Macs for more than a decade; I feel old all of a sudden).
Oh, and check out my
Oh, and check out my church’s new website if you get a chance.
The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer
The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm, from Berkeley. Scary stuff. Propagation speed was Sapphire’s novel feature: in the first minute, the infected population doubled in size every 8.5 (±1) seconds. The worm achieved its full scanning rate (over 55 million scans per second) after approximately three minutes, after which the rate of growth slowed down somewhat because significant portions of the network did not have enough bandwidth to allow it to operate unhindered. Most vulnerable machines were infected within 10-minutes of the worm’s release.
Bill says hi.
If you are a classroom teacher and you have a Mac, this offer is too good to pass up. Seriously. Apple is making some great moves in education right now.
Speaking of Apple, InfoWorld has named the “Apple Platform” as one of the Top Ten Technologies of 2002: The Mac platform is taking shape as one that users and developers outside Apple’s established niche markets can embrace.
To an engineer, everyone looks
To an engineer, here everyone looks like a chimp.
Top Ten Albums
\t\t10) Lincoln – They Might Be Giants\t\t
Ana Ng and I are growing old
\t\t\tAnd we still haven’t walked in the glow of each other’s majestic presence
\t\t\tListen, Ana, hear my words
\t\t\tThey’re the words you would think I would say
\t\t\tIf there was a me for you
\t\t\t”Ana Ng”
\t\t\tAnd we still haven’t walked in the glow of each other’s majestic presence
\t\t\tListen, Ana, hear my words
\t\t\tThey’re the words you would think I would say
\t\t\tIf there was a me for you
\t\t\t”Ana Ng”
\t\t9) Muswell Hillbillies – The Kinks\t\t
You keep all your smart modern writers
\t\t\tGive me William Shakespeare
\t\t\tYou keep all your smart modern painters
\t\t\tI’ll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci, and Gainsborough
\t\t\t”20th Century Man”
\t\t\tGive me William Shakespeare
\t\t\tYou keep all your smart modern painters
\t\t\tI’ll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci, and Gainsborough
\t\t\t”20th Century Man”
\t\t8) Grind – Jawbone Hill\t\t
Hey, baby, look to the seasons
\t\t\tHey, baby, feel them one by one
\t\t\tHey, baby, shout to the rainbow
\t\t\tTell the Artist about His beautiful light
\t\t\t”Sun, Moon, and Angels”
\t\t\tHey, baby, feel them one by one
\t\t\tHey, baby, shout to the rainbow
\t\t\tTell the Artist about His beautiful light
\t\t\t”Sun, Moon, and Angels”
\t\t7) The Burn Service – Vineyard Music Group\t\t
You are the fountain of my life
\t\t\tAnd in Your light I find my reason
\t\t\t’Cause Your love reaches to the stars
\t\t\tEven the great deep
\t\t\tAnd Your love reaches to this heart
\t\t\tAnd it makes me sing
\t\t\t”Your Love Reaches Me”
\t\t\tAnd in Your light I find my reason
\t\t\t’Cause Your love reaches to the stars
\t\t\tEven the great deep
\t\t\tAnd Your love reaches to this heart
\t\t\tAnd it makes me sing
\t\t\t”Your Love Reaches Me”
\t\t6) Utopia Parkway – Fountains of Wayne\t\t
When you think you’ve found something worth holding onto
\t\t\tReaching for attention, hoping she would notice
\t\t\tYou collecting bottles and thrown away cans
\t\t\tLike she was returnable, one day would refill your hands
\t\t\tHow she loved you, all you imagined
\t\t\tFit so well into your plans
\t\t\t”Troubled Times”
\t\t\tReaching for attention, hoping she would notice
\t\t\tYou collecting bottles and thrown away cans
\t\t\tLike she was returnable, one day would refill your hands
\t\t\tHow she loved you, all you imagined
\t\t\tFit so well into your plans
\t\t\t”Troubled Times”
\t\t5) Resigned – Michael Penn\t\t
What once I took as remedies were only chalk hypotheses
\t\t\t’Tis the season for a breeze to blow them all away
\t\t\tTo add insult to injury, the sum you gets means I agree
\t\t\tSo you can call that empathy and find someone else to blame
\t\t\t”All That That Implies”
\t\t\t’Tis the season for a breeze to blow them all away
\t\t\tTo add insult to injury, the sum you gets means I agree
\t\t\tSo you can call that empathy and find someone else to blame
\t\t\t”All That That Implies”
\t\t4) Ben Folds Live – Ben Folds\t\t
I pushed you ’cause I loved you guys
\t\t\tI didn’t realize you weren’t having fun
\t\t\tAnd I dragged you up the stairs and told you to fly
\t\t\tFlapping your arms, you started to cry you were too high
\t\t\t”Philosophy”
\t\t\tI didn’t realize you weren’t having fun
\t\t\tAnd I dragged you up the stairs and told you to fly
\t\t\tFlapping your arms, you started to cry you were too high
\t\t\t”Philosophy”
\t\t3) Much Afraid – Jars of Clay\t\t
Fare thee well
\t\t\tWe’re trading all our words for tea and sympathy
\t\t\tWonder why we try for things that could never be
\t\t\tPlay our heart’s lament like an unrehearsed symphony
\t\t\t”Tea and Sympathy”
\t\t\tWe’re trading all our words for tea and sympathy
\t\t\tWonder why we try for things that could never be
\t\t\tPlay our heart’s lament like an unrehearsed symphony
\t\t\t”Tea and Sympathy”
\t\t2) Pinkerton – Weezer\t\t
Yesterday I went outside
\t\t\tWith my mama’s mason jar
\t\t\tCaught a lovely butterfly
\t\t\tWhen I woke up today
\t\t\tLooked in on my fairy pet
\t\t\tShe had withered all away
\t\t\t”Butterfly”
\t\t\tWith my mama’s mason jar
\t\t\tCaught a lovely butterfly
\t\t\tWhen I woke up today
\t\t\tLooked in on my fairy pet
\t\t\tShe had withered all away
\t\t\t”Butterfly”
\t\t1) Gordon – Barenaked Ladies\t\t
Drove downtown in the rain
\t\t\tNine thirty on a Tuesday night
\t\t\tJust to check out the late night record shop
\t\t\t”Brian Wilson”
\t\t\tNine thirty on a Tuesday night
\t\t\tJust to check out the late night record shop
\t\t\t”Brian Wilson”