njr 3.0

rdiff-backup looks like a nice, no-hassle mirror/backup solution. Intrafile differencing is something Retrospect can't do for the most part as seeks on tape are so slow.

6:47 PM | Radio
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A nice summary with some useful tips about the zsh shell. zsh and tcsh are the two shells provided with Mac OS X, and personally I can't see many reasons to use tcsh. bash will also be included in OS X 10.2 as the default 'sh', because it is more compatible than zsh.

6:38 PM | Radio
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Just checking that everything still works.

4:50 PM | iDisk Test, WebDAV Test
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Had an idea of how to do automatic updating last night; it took a while but here it is:

WebDAV tool 1.1b1 posted. It's only marked beta because it hasn't been tested by more than 3–4 people; there are no known bugs.

11:30 AM | Radio
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CUPS in Mac OS X: YES! YES! Thank you! I was thinking for a long time how wonderful it would be to have CUPS support in OS X, and now here it is. It will make a huge difference to OS X's broken printing architecture.

1:56 AM | Radio
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