Day: March 17, 2005

According to a story posted at the Apple rumor site AppleIndsider, the may soon be an official two-button mouse with the styling that you have come to expect from Apple Computer, Inc.

Of course, many of us have been using multi-button mice and trackballs on the Mac platform for years, but there has never been an official two-button mouse released by the mothership. And if you are wondering why this is the case, consider the reasoning in an article posted on the GearLive site.

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This post is for testing a custom fieldset for implementing a context clue that will be used to combat comment spam.

The idea for this came from a comment that was posted on the phpguru.org blog.

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Well, it has reached the point where it is easier to keep your machine spyware free than it is to clean it.

I have reached the conclusion that the governmental agencies are taking the wrong tack when it comes to punishment for the spyware authors and distributors. Don’t get me wrong I think they need to be punished, but monetary punishment isn’t harsh enough.

Here’s what I propose: force the authors and distributors of the spyware to sit in a room from 8am – 5pm everyday for a month attempting to clean infected computers.

I am sure that if such a punishment was enforced, that enough computers would be offered up for the service that the spyware authors would realize the error of their ways.

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Sometimes the only thing that breaks up the boredom of traveling on the U.S Interstate Highway System is what is written on the billboards.

If you have traveled any on I-75 from Valdosta, GA to Atlanta, GA, you are no doubt familiar with the large collection adverts for Cafe Erotica and the like. There are also a large number PSA’s that assail you with any number of laudable ideas.

What I had not yet seen was a billboard that exhorted the usage of condoms in the following manner:

Does your boyfriend have AIDS? Does your boyfriend’s other girlfriend have AIDS? Wrap it up or die.

That’s right kiddies, not only was the renter of this particular billboard exhorting you to use condoms, but they were also pointing the very realistic fact that men (and women) are often unfaithful. According to statistics reported by Infidelity Check as many as 37% of men and 22% of women admit to having affairs.

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Well, I have disabled comments once again. On my previous WordPress setup I had a nifty plugin that helped with the comment spam because it required you to verify the text in an image to post a comment.

Now I have changed to WordPress 1.5. Well, I tried and tried to get the Authimage plugin to work, but failed.

So for the time being, I have disabled comments. When I get the plugin working I will turn them back on.

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Okay, so here I find myself reloading my 15″ AL PowerBook a few days ago. The reason behind this reload was the fact that for some reason the drivers for my Canon CanoScan Lide 30 scanner wouldn’t load after I updated to 10.3.7.

Now, my normal process in re-loading a Mac is pretty straight-forward these days:

1. Load the operating system
2. Load all currently available updates
3. Load Xcode
4. Load Firefox
5. Start Firefox and change the download location

Seems pretty cut-and-dried, right? Well, usually I have Firefox on a USB-key so that I don’t have to download it, but this time I had left my USB-key at work. So I fired up Safari and downloaded Firefox. Now, by default Safari puts all downloaded files on the desktop, as do all of the other major browsers for the Mac.

As I was happily downloading other utilities, I noticed an interesting phenomenon: as each file was downloaded in Firefox, a temporary file would be downloaded to the desktop. This file would then disappear when the download was complete.

Now, I thought that this was rather strange behavior since I had changed the download location in Firefox to not be my desktop. Turns out that if you don’t change the download location of Safari, the temporary files are still downloaded to the desktop.

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