I’m constantly hounded by GNU/Linux newbies GNUbies about many things relative to scripting; Why don’t I use gawk for my awk scripts; Why don’t I use ‘[[’ instead of ‘[’ for my condition tests in shell scripts; Why don’t I use BASH for my shell scripts?. Such questions rarely come from seasoned UNIX professionals who have worked on multiple flavors of Unix. Explaining the way things work in the real world requires that the audience has an attention span beyond that of the averageI’m_pissed_at_society_and_microsoft_sucks-linux-neophyte.
Oct
24
2009
24
2009
Oct
19
2009
19
2009
15″ MacBook Pro battery is failing after just 9.5 months (damn you Apple)
Recently Apple’s been hyping their Laptops and the great battery life. Well today After 9.5 months the battery in my (new Aluminum Uni-Body) 15″ MacBook Pro is crashing. By crashing I mean that it’s only lasting for about 1/3 of the advertised 5 – 6 hours of life on a full charge.
Sep
13
2009
13
2009
Snow Leopard is pretty “cool” but still doesn’t have some things I’d like to see
I’ve been using Snow Leopard for over a week now. I’m quite pleased with the performance boost (it actually makes the first core2 based MacMinis usable) and don’t really mind the absence of feature creep/bloat. It looks like this was a targeted effort and Apple seems to have hit the mark quite aptly.
Unfortunately there are some things that still aren’t quite right for me with OS X that I’d hoped would have been addressed with the bring forth of this frosted feline. MuSmartlkjkjdkdjjIt
Jun
17
2009
17
2009
Why I’m not doing Plone anymore (for now)…I think
I’ve been a fan of Plone for 8 years. I’ve developed apps based on it and done much consulting related to it. I’ve contributed monetarily to the project and various members of it’s community and as of right now I have no desire to work with it.