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I see Lugaru just released a Mac OS X version of their Emacs-style Epsilon editor.
A long time ago (late 80s) I used Epsilon for DOS and I liked it because it was the closest thing to Emacs. Mac OS X includes Emacs, plus enhanced X11 & Carbon versions are available, all free. Epsilon is an [...]

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I really hate American Idol. Especially this season, since I really dislike all of the contestants. Most people around here seem to be obsessed with it. When we had our condo association board meeting Tuesday night, almost half of the attendees left early to watch the finale. Even Mike Doughty, one of my favorite singers, [...]

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I now have the final version of the MacMegasite logo, using a nicer font & background images representing linux, osx & darwin.

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World Music Cenntral reports that Desmond Dekker, the Jamaican singer who became popular worldwide with the hit songs ‘The Israelites’ and ‘Intensified’ died May 25 in the morning. He suffered a heart attack on stage during a soundcheck in Dublin, Ireland.
Desmond Dekker (born Desmond Adolphus Dacres in Kingston, Jamaica on July 16, 1941) was one [...]

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“It Doesn’t Work” is not a useful bug report.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “A Tip for QA”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/05/25/a-tip-for-qa/” });

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There was a copyright problem with the old logo I used for MacMegasite, which combined an Apple & Universal logo. I’ve made a new text-only logo:

I may use this alternate version, which features Hexley & Tux:

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Sorry I haven’t had a chance to write much lately. I’ve been digging very deeply into IOKit & EFI so I’ve been buried in documentation & code. Today I’ve also had to do one of my least favorite things: writing documentation.
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Dries Buytaert: Google to invest 70.000 USD in Drupal:
Rumor has it that Google will sponsor 14 Drupal developer stipends in this year’s Summer of Code program (SoC). To inspire young developers to work on FOSS projects during the summer, Google will provide a stipend of 5000 USD to each student developer, of which 4500 [...]

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I find that DreamHost’s SpamAssassin is pretty much useless, since lots of spam gets past it. I ended up installing SpamBouncer, which seems to be much better at identifying spam.
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The Parallels WorkstationDesktop team now has an official blog.
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A water main outside my building broke last night, flooding my patio with over 3″ of water. It was also raining heavily, so I first thought it was flooded from the rain. I borrowed a pump and the water flowed back in as fast as I was pumping it out. When I looked outside, the [...]

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On April 17, Daniel Wultz of Weston captured international attention after he and his father, Tuly, were injured during a Passover trip to Israel. Tuly Wultz was dining with his devout son on the patio of the kosher Mayor’s Falafel when a suicide bomber, thought to be a member of the Islamic Jihad, blew up [...]

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Today was my first mother’s day without my mom, so it felt sort of weird. I went with two of my friends to have dinner with one of one’s mom. We had a very nice time, as much as I was able to. I also went to a memorial gathering Friday from the hospice where [...]

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Gunnar Langemark: Free Alaa!:
Alaa Abd El-Fatah - egyptian blogger, democracy activist and Drupal contributor was arrested a few days ago for being on a demonstration for democracy.
So what to do? googlebomb the egyptian government?
Sign a petition?
Write a blogpost?
Read the news?
Or all of the above?
Please join the campaign.
Also visit Manalaa to check it out for [...]

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29 percent
President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an ‘excellent or pretty good’ job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in [...]

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I just upgraded my MacBook Pro’s RAM to 2GB and I find it runs a lot faster. With only 1GB, running Windows XP in Parallels Workstation slows down the entire system, but now there’s no slowdown.
BEFORE

AFTER

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I just finished upgrading MacMegasite to Drupal 4.7. The upgrade was quick & painless. I had already installed the modules, made a few patches (most notably redirecting the feed to FeedBurner) and tested everything with a back up of the database from several days ago. To do the switch, I disabled posting, dumped the database, [...]

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It looks like all of the rumor sites were wrong for a change. They were all predicting that Apple would announce the MacBook non-Pro, a replacement for the iBook. There were no Apple hardware announcements today. Furthermore, I have proof that G4 iBooks were still being manufactured as recently as last month.
I’ve been dealing with [...]

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I’ve been working on upgrading MacMegasite to Drupal 4.7. It’s now running on my MacBookPro, so I’ll probably go live with it in a few days.
My old theme didn’t work with 4.7, so I made this new theme based on Chameleon.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Upgrading MacMegasite”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/05/07/upgrading-macmegasite/” });

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Via MetaFilter: “First it was called The War on Terror. Then it was called the Global War on Terror. But now President Bush is simply calling it World War III.”
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Rebranding The War.”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/05/05/rebranding-the-war/” });

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