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beyond dude!

September 27, 2005

in Personal, Tech

My ISP has been tuning the antennas this afternoon, and things have been… kind of zippy. I ran a speed test and just had to put up this screen shot. How fast is my broadband? It is beyond dude fast. (this was, alas, short-lived. They finished tuning the antennas and things dropped back down to [...]

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I really want to like AppleScript. It’s a weird programming language, and I like weird programming languages, ergo, I should like AppleScript. In theory, there’s a ton of stuff you CAN do with applescript to do automated stuff on the mac. But it seems like every time I delve into Applescript I rapidly descend into [...]

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RIP dogcow (moof)

September 23, 2005

in Links, Tech

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) posts that Apple Technote #31, describing Clarus, the Dogcow, seems to have gone missing on the Apple Developer Website. The dogcow is a bit of apple lore that turned up again and again in various places in Apple software over the years. Removing technote 31 does not bode well for [...]

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unix hell

September 15, 2005

in Links, Tech

(click through, the whole thing is cute).

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A bunch of months ago we got wireless broadband Internet, and all was right with the world. Except there seems to be a rule in our world that once something goes right in our tech configuration, something must also then go horribly wrong. So after changing ISPs, getting a new mini-firewall, renumbering our entire internal [...]

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