Category Archives: technology

a life less simple

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 October 11 by Anton

The looming prospect of liquidity raises new questions, like: How soon does a flat monitor pay for itself in power? Are the cameras built into telephones any good, and do they interface easily with a Mac?

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without questions there can be no answers

Posted on Saturday, 2006 June 24 by Anton

Is there a standard Unix shell command to pause for a given amount of time? One wouldn’t use this from the prompt, of course, but it might have its uses in scripts. Mine is to open a large number of … Continue reading →

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hypothesis

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 June 21 by Anton

Somewhere in MS Word’s infinitely deep dialog boxes there must be a checkbox whose default setting is Do what I explicitly asked you not to do.

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theoretical ability

Posted on Saturday, 2006 June 17 by Anton

The bank sent me a new card. Daily ATM Withdrawal Limit: $310 Not since 1990 (or was it 1998?) have I seen a cash machine that gives bills smaller than $20.

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nothing’s perfect

Posted on Sunday, 2006 May 07 by Anton

Since moving back to MacOS from Red Hat, I do miss a few features: ability to resize a window by dragging any edge, not only the bottom right corner ability to send the current window to the back with a … Continue reading →

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how’s your German?

Posted on Saturday, 2006 April 29 by Anton

I’d love to have an English translation of the German comments in fullgen.c, a program that counts the polyhedra that can be made of pentagons and hexagons (i.e. fullerenes), so that I can modify it. (None of the output modes … Continue reading →

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another one for Perry?

Posted on Tuesday, 2006 March 21 by Anton

How many MacOS experts read this? When I launch Grapher, I get a Warning: Font Conflict Several characters (Greek letters, e.g.) cannot be displayed correctly because of a conflict between the installed fonts. If you are using MathType, please make … Continue reading →

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