Archive for the Computers and Internet Tag

14 months as a Mac user (or, a NeXTStep user comes home)

In September of 2003, I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about. I acquired a secondhand iMac (original, Bondi Blue) and the latest OS/X (Jaguar, follwed quickly by Panther). Since October ’03 I haven’t looked back. Even that slow 233 MHz gem was quite peppy compared to Windows. The only thing it wouldn’t do to my satisfaction
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On Uninvited Guests at Christmas

This makes Christmas Eve #2 that I woke in the morning to discover a nasty surprise on my server. In case there is any doubt as to how I feel about this, allow me to make it painfully clear: STAY OFF MY COMPUTER! Today’s incident wasn’t catastrophic, although it easily could have been. On 12/24/98, some dork rooted my server
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