Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
The Future of NetBSD
As you can see here on slashdot and here on osnews (and of course here) the future of NetBSD is questionable right now. What is going on?
(PS I finally got something accepted on slashdot haha and osnews! I’m special now lol)
No Comments » - Posted in Computer Stuff, News by mike
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Don’t Ask.
Don’t ask why I found this story about a married woman named tanya. But it’s an interesting story and it’s random and therefore in the essence of randomness, it fits on this site just fine. Here’s a quote: “Robert was thinking - ‘don’t get involved with a married woman, [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in ...And I Quote:, WTF? by mike
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Don’t Be The Loud Guy
Ok every now and then you have to take a crap at work. Shit happens. It’s bad enough that you have to take a crap at work, and it’s worse to have a take a crap while someone else is in there crapping. Now listen up close guys: Please don’t make so much damned noise [...]
No Comments » - Posted in WTF? by mike
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Spam Sieve
I’m experimenting with Spam Sieve to see if it can replace Mail.app’s dumb junk mail filters. I trained Mail’s junk filters for about a year and I still got spam last week. Obvious spam at that. It’s just silly. Thunderbird for Mac has great junk filters but no direct tie-in to the Addressbook. SpamSieve adds [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Computer Stuff by mike
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
GnuCash On OS X
I had attempted to get my finances in order, but this time I’m going to stick to it I swear… thanks to gnucash. If you haven’t heard of it by now, then where have you been? It’s awesome! I never used quicken or Microsoft Money, or iCash, but this program really has made it so [...]
No Comments » - Posted in ...And I Quote:, Computer Stuff by mike
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Firewall
Eek. I decided to see this movie Firewall, with Harrison Ford. I figured it would be something I could watch with my parents and maybe, just maybe, it would have the right mix of real technology and fake… shit. Well for some reason people making movies don’t think real technology is exciting enough to use. [...]