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A Simple Click Stirs a Lot of Outrage
The State Department site, it turns out, had been providing a link to a Web site run by the Republican National Committee despite federal laws prohibiting government resources from being used for partisan purposes.
Accident by unknowing staff (funny how every organization keeps a couple of these folks around) or wilful flouting of the law? You make the call.
America Online Is Making More Changes at the Top
Jordan Rohan, an analyst with SoundView Technologies, said, “This company is becoming more and more like Time Warner and less like AOL.”
It seemed likely this would happen: TWX is much bigger that AOL and predates dialup information services by decades, with operations in many industries and regions of the globe. It didn’t seem like that AOL’s young khaki and golf shirt culture would win out over TWX’s more seasoned suits, especially as they were outnumbered. Maybe now the value of the merged company will reflect the strengths of the Time Warner assets, rather than what AOL brought to the marriage.
Of course, this is not a new idea: the deep-fried Mars Bar is Scotland’s National Dish.
This sort of food is the reason why Scotland has the highest heart attack per person ratio of any country in Europe.
It may not be a new idea, but it’s disgusting.
Found that someone had used an entire paragraph as a search query in Google: of course, Google limits queries to 10 words and drops common stop words (prepositions, conjunctions). Still, that text has been cited many places.
How Mac and Windows Can Talk to Each Other
I have been a PC user since 1984. Until recently it has been my understanding that Mac files and Windows files are incompatible. Is that still true? If I should buy an iMac, could I still exchange files with people who use Windows 98 or XP?
This hasn’t been true for everyday applications for most of the 18 years this person has been harboring these delusions. No wonder Apple still struggles to get a foothold.
While sitting in my downstairs office, I heard some small animal foot steps crunching the leaves along the path: at first I guessed it was the neighbor’s cat, but the steps were not deliberate enough, too random. I looked at the window to see what I might see, as the steps got closer, and there he was , suddenly poking his snout into the light.
No, that’s not the same guy I saw, but the effect is the same. They are cute little buggers, but I’m not sure I want any hanging around my house.
This image was all that appeared below the banner of the Seattle Times today, measuring about 4 inches tall, center above the fold, with the text underneath. The news started on page A3, with A2 reserved for the names of the victims. Even the barcode was moved to the back page.
Stark, understated, and moving, I think.
quotidian: samba tips for OS X
(I wonder when Apple will switch to xinetd? and if I switched, what would it wreck?)
Haven’t found anything broken yet.
The Common UNIX Printing System ("CUPS") is a cross-platform Open Source printing solution for UNIX environments, and will be used as a portable printing layer for Darwin and Mac OS X. CUPS is based on the Internet Printing Protocol and provides both System V and BSD command-line printing services for PostScript and raster printers.
I’m a big fan of CUPS and I’m glad it made it into Jaguar. But for some reason, I haven’t found anything about how you configure it if you’ve never seen it before.
It has a nice web interface to set up it’s print services, but unless you enable it in the cupsd.conf file, you’ll never see it.
Continue reading “CUPS in Jaguar”
I needed to get all the addresses from an old copy of Outlook Express into Apple’s Mail application. Jaguar ships with an AppleScript that handles it for you . . . if you know where to look for it. It’s linked above.
