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why I hate your freedom

Happy New Thing.   So anyway, Adam Leventhal found out AAPL hamstrung DTrace w.r.t. certain apps on Leopard (iTunes at least).  Cue inevitable Slashdottian outrage. When source code gets released under a license everyone (so long as they follow those terms) gets to port, extend, or shout about how your license isn’t free at all really. They can even choose [...]

note to self : don’t interrupt FileVault

I enabled FileVault on my MBP and cancelled the conversion when I saw how long it was going to take. When I tried to re-enable it again today, I got an error saying could not create filevault disk image Google wasn’t very helpful, so I’m noting down the fix here, which is: sudo rm -r [...]

ok kids, get in the car

I’ve now officially taken all the shit I’m going to from Typo. a seemingly dead codebase rubbish antispam takes an age to post comments takes even longer to delete spam comments (see above points) have a cronjob to restart it 4 times a day (The last point seems to be standard practice for plenty of [...]