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New, New and New

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New year, New millennium, New weblog look I could no longer stomach the Aqua theme, it's hard enough on my desktop. This theme is called Hazard Area, enter a…

We're looking for reasonably priced moving supplies, things like…

Unclassified

Question?

25 years ago

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On our way from the theater yesterday nite, Vicki asked me what my thoughts were on the percentage of politicians kids who actually do drugs. The question ma…

I told her the percentage was most likely very high, for two specific reasons. First, the kids have the means (money, etc.) to buy the drugs. Second, they are often forced to project an image of perfection, which must undoubtedly make things like…

News

Daily Newz

25 years ago

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Mac OS 9.1 details available, due Tuesday. A new nanokernel, new process manager, FireWire 2.7, a new version of OpenGL, a Mac OS-X compatible startup disk c…

SuSE Linux goes handheld. I'm only hearing good things about…

Mac

To Aqua or not to Aqua

25 years ago

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To Aqua or not to Aqua. The problem with Aqua is that it doesn't really give me anything that substantially improves my daily computer usage. At least not ov…

To Aqua or not to Aqua. The problem with Aqua is that it doesn't really give me anything that substantially improves my daily computer usage. At least not over 9, Windows or even KDE. As a matter of fact, it is forcing me to unlearn some of the (bad) habits I've proudly cultivated for years. Without clear benefits, it is hard to convince myself that I should make the effort to learn new ways. My first instinct is to reach for a Terminal window. Granted, I've always been command line proficient, but when faced with the choice I used to favor the GUI approach. This feeling is not specific to OS X; I just find myself wanting to make things simpler,…

Java

Installing Tomcat 3.2

25 years ago

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This installation guide is not a replacement for reading the Tomcat user guide, but hopefully will help someone avoid some of the problems I had to circumvent.