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 [...]
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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 [...]
