Recently it came to the attention of the Digg masses that some slimy SEO guy was advocating web site owners block every Firefox user simply because Firefox allows ad-blocking plugins, and doesn’t provide web site owners with any way to block users of such plugins.
I find this incredibly silly for a number of reasons. The [...]
I’ve been getting strange messages in my system and console logs, or when executing certain applications from the command line. Notably iMovie and Skype:
iTeaHAL: Entering… iTeaHAL: Not iTunes, exiting.
And when executing iTunes, I get this:
iTeaHAL: Entering… iTeaHAL: Early startup… itea_hijack_init: result: 0 iTeaHAL: Early startup done. new_AudioDeviceAddIOProc:0×2281b68 link added iTeaHAL: Late startup… {length = 6, capacity = 6, bytes = 0×000a95c4a60e} itea_fx_init: result: 0 itea_menu_init: [...]
Users of the popular VoIP network, Skype, have been experiencing widespread outages for more than a day now. And of course thanks to Murphy’s Law I happened to pick today to try to get my family set up on Skype.
So far I’ve heard three theories as to what is going on.
Skype says the problem is [...]
The “which” Unix command lists the location of the first matching executable in your PATH. The GNU version of “which” has several extra features including the ability to display all matching executables in your PATH, not just the first. This is useful for finding duplicates, etc. Unfortunately, whatever version of “which” is included in Mac [...]
I had a great weekend in Las Vegas at DEF CON 15. Met lots of cool people, saw lots of interesting presentations, ate lots of good food, and spent way too much money doing it all.
Perhaps my favorite moment of the conference was when DEF CON organizer Jeff Moss lured Michelle Madigan, the undercover NBC [...]