In the interest of being thorough, (and in providing service to the 4% 2.68% (to be exact) of my site visitors that use a Mac,) a Mac news aggregator freeware program became available. It’s called NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b2, from Brent Simmons. Early reviews are positive but, not having a Mac myself, I can’t really verify that.
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I noticed this morning that the new blog got noticed and linked by those folks over Network World Fusion’s Compendium blog. Now don’t you wish you were me? Still not convinced? How about something like this sitting in my office full of root beer right now? How about the fact that my wife bought it…
My attempt to install Red Hat 8.0 did not go as planned. While the iso downloaded OK, and the MD5 Checksum matched, apparently the CD I burned for Disk 1 was bad. After a number of attempts to install either hung or spit back an error about being unable to read such and such, I…
Found another potential problem with the installation of Internet Explorer 6 SP1. Apparently it adds and automatically checks a checkbox on your Tools/Options/Security tab that tells OE to “Not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus.” Nice idea, but the “potential virus” attachments I just tested it with, a…
Just a few notes, Kevin has created a In The Trenches listener button that you can use to help promote his podcast for sys. admins. He’s also set up a CafePress shop to promote the show, and help defray the bandwidth costs. Meanwhile, Chad, who has recently started a podcast of his own, setup a…
Well, you all know the problems I had with hosting and how much it peeves me when companies don’t communicate, so today what do we have at work? Turns out the company who acts as our ISP switched their ISP without bothering to tell us ahead of time. So while the new name server information…