I finally got around to loading Apple’s Mac OS X 10.3 (aka: Panther) on my wife’s G4 laptop and on my “new” Dual G4/500. Fast-User Switching is the most awesomely useful new feature, it allows you to quickly re-login to a host as a new user while leaving the original user still logged in and […]
I just read about the “Witty Worm” on SlashDot and need to revise my advice for those poor souls with the misfortune of running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Previously I recommended that anyone running Windows should use a firewall; today I must revise that and suggest that you use an external hardware-device firewall. The “Witty […]
I have long been looking for an outbound application monitor and blocker for Apple’s Mac OS X operating system that would function like ZoneLab‘s ZoneAlarm on Microsoft Windows. I think I finally found one in Objective Development’s Little Snitch (Commercial $24.95, free three hour demo). What both ZoneAlarm and Little Snitch do is watch your […]
Tomorrow is Virginia’s first Presidential Primary election in quite a while. I am not sure how skewed the results will be because Virginia is a very Republican state, and because the Democratic Primary is open to all registered voters, but it is an oppotunity to send a message to the system. I fully expect John […]
Regime change within the United States is probably the most important undertaking we’ll have in the coming year (2004). The national news media is inadequately covering the race for the office of President, but they are not mentioning the equally important need to replace our corrupt, inept, and right-wing congress (both houses) with progressive, open-minded, […]
The capture of Saddam Hussein is a victory for the Iraqi people and a victory for American Corporate Adventurism, but it is not a victory for the American people. Mr. Bush will try to pretend that it is a victory in the alleged “War on Terrorism” and that American’s will be safer somehow, but that […]
Erci and I just got back from a wonderful trip to sunny Arizona to visit my Aunt Kay, Uncle John, Aunt Vicki, Uncle Darl, and cousins Kyle, Kurt and Sarah. Erci and I fell in love with Flagstaff. It is a beautiful small city with about a hundred years of history, gorgeous vistas of the […]
I just descovered a really useful new (to me at least) application for my PalmOS PDA. It is called Plucker (http://www.plkr.org/), and it has a desktop component (Mac OS, Windoze, Linux) and a PalmOS component. The desktop can be configured to routinely fetch website content, RSS feeds, Usenet News feeds, and files and set them […]
My cousin Kyle sent me this awesome Presidential Confession which is floating around the email chain letter style lists at his university, and I just had to publish it. It is an mock confession from our mock president, but it really makes you think about what Shrub the lessor has done for our country. Think […]
Wow, Diane Rehm has Carol Mosely Braun on her radio show today and she (Ambassador Braun) sounds awesome. She actually has a plan for healing the damages done by the Reagan, Bush, and Bush administrations. That puts her several steps ahead of Howard Dean and Wesley Clark, at least in my opinion. I like Dean, […]
