Category Archives: neep-neep

because you asked for it, or because you didn’t

Posted on Friday, 2008 October 17 by Anton

retro MacOS theme for WordPress. I’m pretty sure this is before it was called MacOS, that’s how old it is. (Hat tip to Bill Detty.)

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link repellent

Posted on Sunday, 2008 March 30 by Anton

I wonder whether anyone keeps track of how many times PVP has restructured its archives making old links invalid.

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how much is in there?

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 March 04 by Anton

I reloaded MacOS, restored my home directory from backup, and was surprised to learn that I have 3e5 files. Most of the bulk is music, but that’s only 7e3 files. Is there a tool analogous to du that gives the … Continue reading →

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I ain’t got no software

Posted on Sunday, 2008 January 20 by Anton

… that I can depend on. I updated my MacOS to 10.5 “Leopard”, and now the shell command sort no longer recognizes the ‘+’ option (to skip a specified number of words before beginning the key). Argh.

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non c’è più religione

Posted on Friday, 2007 November 30 by Anton

Tsk. A current radio spot gives the web address “wachovia dot com backslash new”. Meanwhile, what’s new with me? I’m reading Coxeter’s Non-Euclidean Geometry in the hope that it will give me the stuff I’ve sought in vain in other … Continue reading →

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tunnel vision

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 September 26 by Anton

Sunday my monitor gave an emphatic death-rattle; at this point repair makes less sense than buying a new flat one – when I have the dosh available. Meanwhile I’m using the spare, which has about 4/7 as many pixels (1024×768 … Continue reading →

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legibility

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 September 25 by Anton

Fellow WordPress users! If you find that bits of Unicode in your archives have recently (=in version 2.2 or later) become illegible, comment out these lines in wp-config.php: define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

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