From 1999, but still very good advice. Via 43Folders, with a summary.
…for laughing so hard at this. [via]
I downloaded a file called procrastination.doc from 43folders or Lifehacker or one of the other personal productivity sites I follow. It’s been sitting on my desktop since the beginning of April, and I’ve been meaning to read it.
Somehow I found that funny. I just printed it out. We’ll see.
(Turns out it WAS from Lifehacker.)
So I’m trying to do an install with debootstrap onto a virgin partition. From my custom Ubuntu-based distribution. And I get the following error message:
E: Couldn’t find these debs: 33024830
The error code itself is not Googleable, because it apparently changes for each install. (I got several different codes during the course of my troubleshooting.) Google [...]
So I’ve been playing with BrowseBack lately, and I’m pretty impressed. It’s a Macintosh product that keeps a running watch on what web pages you visit (you can exclude pages like webmail, your online banking sites, etc.) in a permanent archive on your computer. (You can set it to take up as much or little [...]
I’m not clear at this point what the “best practice” is for handling updates to things I’ve written. Not that I’m at ALL anal-retentive (oh no!) but I’ve made about 20 changes to each of these posts after I first published them. Should I be marking the updates? Using strikeout and different colors to indicate [...]
So I just upgraded my office computer from a dual-processor G5 to a new “Quad-Proc” ((Of course, it’s not REALLY quad-processor. It’s two dual-core processors. But it’s still really fricking cool.)) and I used Apple’s Migration Assistant to move my files over. Pulled the hard drive from my old Mac, stuck it in my new [...]
Noted as changes from default settings. Also, hit “Use Settings as Defaults” every time you change something on the “Window Settings” palette..
Terminal –> Window Settings –> Shell –> Close Only if the Shell Exited Cleanly
Terminal –> Window Settings –> Emulation –> Visual Bell
Terminal –> Window Settings –> Buffer –> Unlimited Scrollback
Terminal –> Window Settings –> [...]