The best thing that ever happened to Intel

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I watched yesterday with a bit of surprise as Steve announced Apple’s transition to Intel processors. Such a transition is a rumor that has popped up repeatedly for years now with no factual basis, and even this year’s iteration was based upon hearsay and included no specifics nor named any reliable source.

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MASH and the Brady Bunch revisited

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Last year I visited my friend Ted in LA and he showed me some of the sights. I wrote a quick blurb and posted it here at the time. Now that I have this cool new photo gallery package, I decided to come back and include more pictures and more information.
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Configuring Tiger’s syslogd to accept logs from external devices

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Special thanks to helpful reader PeterK who was kind enough to respond to a previous post on this site about syslogd and FreeRADIUS. (I’m still accepting responses, by the way.) His input made this tutorial possible.

Many network devices such as routers, firewalls, and wireless access points, have the ability to send logging messages to other listening devices called syslog servers. Mac OS X uses a syslog server daemon to record its own logging information, and that same daemon can be configured to accept logging information from external devices as well. In this quick tutorial, we’ll do just that by editing a text file and using a new Tiger feature.
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Anurag Kashyap Wins Scripps National Spelling Bee

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Oh the irony.

Using ASR or Disk Utility to clone drives

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The popular drive cloning app Carbon Copy Cloner is broken in Tiger for reasons beyond the author’s control. There is still an easy way to clone drives on your Mac: Disk Utility and ASR.
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