Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Someone at Macworld last week greeted me as “the guy who’s made a career out of syslogd -u”, a reference to this posting to my blog that also appeared in an issue of MacTech and on AFP548. I was a bit surprised to hear that comment for a couple of reasons (one of which was that someone may think I make a career out of writing), but I want to clarify something for the readers of this page.

I’m not stupid enough to believe that editing a plist file to add the -u switch to syslogd is some kind of earth-shattering tip that the Mac community can’t live without. When I submitted that article to MacTech initially, there was no guarantee and no indication that it would ever be printed. The same goes for AFP548. The only place I know for sure that it will appear is my own page, so I posted it.

I realize the person who said that to me was doing so with a wink and a nod, and I take no offense from it. I write some of these small-time tips because they don’t seem to currently exist in the Google database. My first reaction when I need to know something is to query Google, and when that search fails to turn up an answer, I look elsewhere. When I know the answer, I write it up in the hope that it will make someone’s day a little easier down the line and, judging by my web stats, I’ve accomplished that in a couple of different ways.