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We are now officially living in a dictatorship.

Many of my friends and neighbors have no clue that today USA ceased to be a democracy. They do not realize that Congress and Courts do not have any power to stop Bush from doing whatever he wants. He never cared what they said before and did it [...]

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Handling “overlapped extent allocation” errors reported by Disk Utility or fsck
If Disk Utility or the fsck command line utility reports “overlapped extent allocation” errors that it cannot repair, here are some things you can do to resolve the issue.
(tags: Apple macosx tools)

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Windows Vista

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

I downloaded the preview version of Windows Vista and I’ve been trying it out on my MacBook Pro using Parallels Desktop. It’s very pretty, but it feels annoyingly “dumbed down”.

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All you need is ubuntu
Ubuntu. That was what Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference it needed to remember this week. “Society is important because of Ubuntu.”
(tags: news opensource social ubuntu)

Youtube your Drupal Site
Flunkarnold.com is a drupal site which allows users to upload .mov and .avi video files to the site, convert them to flash [...]

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This is a great mash-up of a Windows Vista presentation audio with a Mac OS X demonstration.

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I’ve installed the new theme at MacMegasite and I’ve also created a mobile edition, available at http://mobile.macmegasite.com/ which uses a minimalist theme with no graphics. I did it through the magic of Drupal’s multiple site feature. I copied settings.php from the default site to a new site directory and simply added an override for default_theme.
Now [...]

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Free GPL Icons - Lullacons Pack 1 | Lullabot
These general purpose icons fill a basic need in the Drupal (and the open-source community) for visual reinforcement of textual content.
(tags: free drupal icons)

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New MacMegasite Theme

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

I’m working on a new look for MacMegasite, based on the Aquasoft theme for Drupal, as well as a lightweight theme for mobile viewing. MacMegasite also has an enthusiastic new staff member, etomic13, who’s bringing new life to the site.

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AlterNet: 12 Traps That Keep Progressives From Winning
Progressives need to start talking about values and avoid the common pitfalls that cause us to lose voters’ hearts and minds.
(tags: politics)

Roughly Drafted
Good Apple-related blog
(tags: Apple blog)

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I came up with a fix for the APE-related crash I found a few days ago. It seems that signals can be delivered to any active thread. If you have APE installed, it injects its own thread into the application. If the signal happens to be sent to APE’s thread, there’s a chance bad things [...]

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Aspyr releases Civilization IV demo
(tags: mac games)

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This is really cool. NiN did something similar with “The Hand That Feeds”. Maybe other artists will start doing the same.
His, Mine, Yours, Ours: “Inspired by comments Brian Eno made in his book A Year with Swollen Appendices, Duncan Sheik released White Limousine with two discs: One, a CD labeled Mine and the other [...]

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A few days ago I switched back to Comcast cable instead of DirecTV. For a while I’ve been having a lot of weather-related problems with my dish. Due to my location and the trees around me, I lose the signal as soon as it starts to rain.
I took advantage of Comcast’s deal for DirecTV owners [...]

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Teeny Linux PCs proliferate
A small company has begun building its line of tiny, gumstick-sized single-board computers (SBCs) into miniscule packaged PCs that come with Linux pre-installed. Suggested apps for the teeny “Netstix” Linux PCs include webservers, printer servers, IP-tele
(tags: linux hardware)

Transfer Comcast DVR content to a Mac
Subscribers of Shaw Cablesystems in Canada and Comcast in [...]

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Today is onewebday. OneWebDay is one day a year when we all - everyone around the physical globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities. Read more about it here.
On OneWebDay, take one web-related action that helps someone else, such as:

teach someone to use an application [...]

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I don’t like application installers to add icons to my dock without my permission. I prefer to choose what appears in the dock. When I installed Stuffit Deluxe 11 it added icons for each of its applications to my dock & I didn’t notice any option to say whether or not I wanted those icons [...]

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Marc Liyanage - Software - Mac OS X Packages
Easy installers for PHP & MySQL
(tags: macosx opensource software PHP mysql)

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I know Unsanity’s Application Enhancer is often unjustly blamed for crashes, but in this case it definitely caused one of my applications to crash, as shown in this stack frame from the crash report.
Thread 1 Crashed:
0 com.absolute.ctmweb 0×0002b9a9 CheckForListen() + 253
1 com.absolute.ctmweb [...]

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How to install Ubuntu in OS X using Parallels - a complete walkthrough - Simplehelp
(tags: ubuntu osx linux)

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Firewire not supported

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

This is the message my new iPod displays when I connect a FireWire cable.

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