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I ran out of disk space on my mac-mini, so I bought an external drive to increase storage. I thought it would be simplest to have a single hard drive to back up and maintain rather than scatter files across the mini’s internal drive and the external drive - I found using multiple-drives in a [...]
I ran out of disk space on my mac mini (recording a lot of video will chew up disk space quickly), so I bought a newertechnology miniStack V2 external firewire drive (misrepresented as “Whisper Quiet”), which sites nicely under the mac.
The drive is disappointingly loud - (bordering on obnoxious when the fan comes on which [...]
Russ Roberts comments on the silly passport situation in Canada — at least we aren’t lining up for bread, though some are doing their best to have us line up for gasoline.
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David Leigh on Lotus Notes 8:
Hannover has a radically improved user interface that is second to none (hear that, Outlook users?).
Notes 8 sounds great, and I am cautiously optimistic it will be.
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I was very surprised to find the Document Database built into Lotus Notes given my overall experience with the product.
Creating a Document Database gives you an easy way to organize your files and intermingle files with text notes (i.e. by dropping them into a note in the database), and you can categorize them, and [...]
Check out Robert Rapier’s post Refining 101: Summer Gasoline. In the US, pollution standards were relaxed to allow ethanol to be blended into gasoline.
It appears artificially increasing the demand for corn by legislating ethanol into gasoline trumps the environment:
“This reduction in the use of ethanol would undermine the potential benefits vis a vis energy [...]
I thought I would sign up for electronic access to canada.com today.
It took me about 30 seconds to find the site too annoying to use. Every time I hover over a hyperlink on canada.com, a very annoying sound pops out of the speaker. It is maddening. Some individual working for canada.com must [...]
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