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To Build a Better Terminal

By barneyb on March 14, 2004

I'd yet to find a terminal application with all the features I wanted. The built-in Terminal application was questionable at best, and I'd been using xterms in X11 for a while, which worked quite well. However, they had one really annoying feature: the 'delete' key didn't work when using emacs over SSH to [...]

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Internet

By barneyb on March 2, 2004

We finally got an internet connection at our house! Yay! Really quite humorous, when you think about it. Here I am, with my (and my family's) livelyhood wholy dependant on the internet and I didn't even have access to it except at my office. Oh well, all better now.

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Living Mac

By barneyb on February 8, 2004

So, the tech today figured it out. One of my sticks of RAM was bad, and it was screwing things up. Pulled it out and everything seems to be back to normal. Bastards at MacMall, after shipping the computer all over hell and back (3 wrong addresses), were kind enough to throw [...]

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Still a Dead Mac

By barneyb on February 8, 2004

After leaving my PowerBook at the Apple store in Portland all day, it's still hosed. They can't figure out what the heck is wrong with it. It's now gone through 6 separate installs of OS X from a formatted disk since Friday, and it's still dead. Hopefully the saga will play itself [...]

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Dead Panther

By barneyb on February 6, 2004

After installing the Safari 1.2 update a couple days ago, my PowerBook has been doing nothing but bad things. 1 in 4 or so web pages cause Safari to crash (including Apple's web site), drag and drop causes Finder to crash, and checking email causes Mail to crash.
So I reformatted and reinstalled the entire [...]

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SETI@Home

By barneyb on February 6, 2004

I thought I'd throw a link up here to SETI@Home, which I've been participating in for quite a while now. The project is a distributed system to analyze the data collected by the Arecibo radio telescope down in Puerto Rico (I believe). You sign up, download a client and when your computer isn't [...]

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