Those fine folks out at Cupertino have another iteration of their operating system out. They tend to be really good at timing these things, and I find myself contributing to their coffers every year right around my birthday. So after being delayed for a weekend (they didn't ship copies to university bookstores in time for the release, and university bookstore's were selling it for cheaper than the Apple Store), I finally have Leopard. Which is good, I guess. I bought this OS in part because of the promise DTrace held, and in part because of Time Machine. I am currently not doing anything requiring DTrace, and I haven't yet taken the time to teach myself enough about it, and Time Machine requires that I reformat my external, something I am not quite prepared to do yet.
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Funny man in Rome, fat man in France, strangely unrelated. I am writing an essay on one. The other is this weird childhood memory a book in the living room brings back. There’s some sort of a British connection between both, but some connections are worthless. Besides I am pretty sure Roman virtues from the [...]
I keep meaning to post, but never really get around to doing it. This is somewhat of a general post, glossing over some of the stuff I have been meaning to post about. In reverse chronological order even. We had this startup talk today, and this thing was probably better attended than any recent CS [...]