Category Archives: neep-neep

i shot an arrow into the air

My bookmarks file has 4539 entries, most of which I intend to look at “someday”. So I’ve written a little utility (two lines of code, plus scaffolding) that other Unix users may find useful, provided that your favorite browser keeps … Continue reading

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marks on paper

Time to buy a printer, preferably cheap; most likely an Epson or HP all-in-one. Any advice is welcome. Wednesday: I popped out to Circuit City and bought the cheapest printer-scanner, which happened to be HP’s PSC1400. I had acquired a … Continue reading

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Salivili hipput tupput täppyt äppyt tipput hilijalleen

An unexpected effect of listening to music through my computer’s speakers is a better stereo image than I’m used to. That’s how I noticed for the first time that Loituma’s joyously goofy song Ievan polkka has four vocal parts, not … Continue reading

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with friends like these

Argh. I just tried to back up my home directory folder to a DVD. When the burn was nearing completion, it aborted because Finder “cannot find data fork of file <unable to locate file path>”. Got that? Four gigabytes of … Continue reading

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my tiger ate my penguin!

Gratitude to Perry Metzger for a twenty-minute phone call: my Linux box is now transferring /home/anton to the new Mac Mini with scp. Later: Apparently /home/anton/.Trash contained a recursive link; the copy of my home directory ended up nine times … Continue reading

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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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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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