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I’ve used a poor combination of dos2unix, unix2dos, mac2unix, and unix2mac for far too long, due mainly to lazyness. Well, flip is here now, and working quite fine. (Thanks Mac OS X Hints!)

Gizmodo points out that controlling TV‘s is fun. And who can disagree? But let’s not forget history here…

If I rememeber correctly, woz was the first to resort to this type of trickery. Woz being the practical sort of joker used to use a TV jammer to mess with people. Read all about woz’s TV jamming (find the part that mentions “TV jammer”)

Say what you want about Steve Jobs, but the other Steve just plain rules…

A while back I mentioned Windows uptime, and we actually put it to use today. I alerted our server admin to one of our IIS servers that had puked on us. He usually kicks it and it gets going again. This time no good. So, as I often suggest when Windows is involved, I say “reboot?” and he is reluctant, but says “sure” but not before wondering about uptime. So I ran the uptime.pl script for Windows, and lo and behold, it had this to say: up 49 days 16:50 (since Wed Aug 27 22:33:24 2003)

Wow! Alert the media! Call those Guiness folks! I did mention this was a Windows server, right?

Oh BTW, the reboot solved whatever was ailing the poor box.

I feel sorry for people who have to deal with the sad and pathetic tag soup that makes up much of the web. Really, those old sites, or heck, even these new sites, that are built using the methods of yesteryear: single pixel gifs, tables for layout (nested who knows how many deep) and code that would only validate if there was an HTML 4.0 TotalMess DOCTYPE.

On top of that, I feel sorry for people who day after day of using their tools of the trade (computer, OS, editors, browsers) are not extremely proficient at using them. It hurts me to see people stumble through simple tasks like find & replace, or have no idea what a “regular expression” is.

Sigh… don’t even get me started on file formats…

If you were wondering if you could put an IMS Twin Turbo 128 PCI video card from a desktop beige G3 into a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver and use it for a second monitor, say an NEC XV14 running at 800×600, yes you can. (Oh, put it in the top slot if possible.)

I offer this advice to the next person trying to confirm this by searching the web and finding no useful information in that regard.