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Safari crashes

…D_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00028038 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 com.apple.WebCore 0x95893818 khtml::RenderStyle::RenderStyle[unified]() + 36 1 com.apple.WebCore 0x958a48a0 khtml::CSSStyleSelector::styleForElement(DOM::ElementImpl*, khtml::RenderStyle*, bool) + 284 2 com.apple.WebCore 0x958a4670 DOM::NodeImpl::createRendererIfNeeded() + 108 3 com.apple.WebCore 0x958a45ec DOM::ElementImpl::attach() + 24 4 com.apple.WebCor…

pbxes.com (PBXes, i-p-tel): horrendously bad customer service

…l accounts, so there was no interruption in service. Despite this thread, which makes it pretty clear their customers are asking for additional payment providers, the only choice is PayPal. Only after attempting to pay via PayPal, I got an email that PBXes required my PayPal account be verified (that is, linked with a bank account). I’ve never had any other payee require I have a verified PayPal account, but I imagine they’ve had their share of fr…

Goodbye, arnold

…but two aging machines—calamity and shrug—remain to be decommissioned. I’ve mentioned calamity a few times over the years; it predates arnold by a couple of years, having ably served as my parents’ DNS, email, Web, VPN and monitoring server. There’ve been no hardware failures, though I’ve upgraded the hard drives and SCSI card once and switched the backup medium from xfsdump on an external MO drive to the network via Bacula. I moved the email and…

Overriding DNS for domains in OS X Tiger

…t works for you. The method that script uses is extremely fragile, is not recommended by Apple, and does not work with multiple simultaneous VPN connections, however. I haven’t tried it, but it seems that dropping the current connection on VPN disconnect may interrupt existing connections. I tried Tunnelblick 3.0a2, and it works slightly better. openvpnstart process hangs, but once I kill it, it seems to connect. It doesn’t cd to my home directory…

Jamie Zawinski holds a debate with himself on the merits of webcasting live shows at the DNA Lounge. It's a very different proposition from Internet radio in general. The argument with the green background convinced me that he should stop doing it, if it's costing $20k/year to serve 20 simultaneous listeners. They're certainly not paying him $1000 each, nor should they do so. jwz didn't include a breakdown of the licensing ver…

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