Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
For the last several weeks, I've noticed excessive CPU usage whenever GMail (GAYD-hosted email, specifically) is open in Firefox. By turning off add-ons one at a time, I found that this is caused solely by Better GMail 2.
Firebug, FireGPG, Greasemonkey (on which Better GMail relies), and AdBlock Plus all ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
The command-line oddities of Mac OS X's BSD heritage drive me insane. I much prefer the behavior of the GNU toolchain, as provided by Ubuntu Linux.
To begin, first install MacPorts.
MacPorts Installation Variant +with_default_names
With several MacPorts packages, the +with_default_names variant may be specified. This causes package contents to be ...
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