Category Archives: technology

new toy

I bought a Mac Mini today. What’s recommended reading for someone coming back to the Mac universe after a long absence? (My other computers run Red Hat 9 and MacOS 8.1.) Monday: I bought David Pogue’s Missing Manual. It appears … Continue reading

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WorldNetDaily: How often do Americans use guns for defensive purposes?

An interesting item from Larry Elder: The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s website displays this oft-quoted “fact”: “The risk of homicide in the home is three times greater in households with guns.” Their website fails to mention that Dr. … Continue reading

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file transfer

I hope soon to buy a Macintosh, and copy my files (4.4 GB) from the present Linux box. Is it easy to do that with an Ethernet line?

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save my joints

For my sins I’m entering thousands of addresses into a LookOut contacts list, and find that each one takes a surprising number of mouse-clicks. It would go much easier if I could simply type them into a textfile and convert … Continue reading

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font moan

I moved from Mozilla to Firefox and found that the font menu has changed. I don’t know where each app looks for its fonts; they’re not neatly integrated in Linux as in MacOS. I don’t like any of them as … Continue reading

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what’s up at Keenspace?

Most (according to casual sample) of the comic strips hosted at Keenspace have had their archives disappear, in whole or in part, this week; as if Keenspace had been taken over by Blogspot.

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yo-yo

Comcast’s DNS has been flaky of late, making me wonder: why doesn’t the browser cache IP addresses?

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