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Uninstalling software on a Mac is a pain in the ass

Well, mostly. Most apps for Mac OS X are simple application bundles (.app files). These are simple double-clickable folders essentially, containing everything necessary for the app to run. These applications are easy to uninstall — all you have to do is drag the .app file, usually in the /Applications folder, to the Trash. The pain [...]

Anticipation

Six days. Six days of anticipation — at once both exhilarating and filled with anxious energy — waiting, waiting for my MacBook to arrive. Ordered on July 21st; it finally arrived on Friday, at work, wrapped in it’s shiny box. This thing is simple as to use; within 15 minutes of opening it up, and [...]

The Machine is us

Wow.

Murphy you bastard

Anything that can go wrong, will – at the worst possible moment So, Gentoo was up and running happily – GNOME, Tomboy, Beagle, the whole she-bang. Even my dev. environment was all set up nicely – CMake, OAL, OGL, ODE, etc. all installed. I had put some finishing touches on my CMake scripts, finally getting [...]