The earlier entries in this web log have been spammed with hundreds of trackbacks to sites that are, at least, annoying. The subset of the blojsom web-log server that Apple supplies with Mac OS X Server has no built-in way to remove offending comments or trackbacks.
I'm searching for a solution, and I'll apply it as soon as I can. Sorry.
Update: I've learned how to suppress trackbacks entirely, which does the trick. Apple's blojsom doesn't allow moderation of comments or trackbacks.
Posted by: Fritz Anderson
| @ March 10, 2006 11:28:13 AM CST ( ) |
A distressed writer to a mailing list says of a debugger,
I can set the word size to 1 and the column count to 16, then resize the window and columns but then I loose the grouping of bytes and it becomes tedious to count out to the middle of a line.
It must be tiresome to "loose the grouping of bytes." Once they get loose, there's no telling where they'll get to. A grouping of bytes, once set loose, may lodge under the '?' key, and where would you be then? How would you indicate that you really want an answer to a question by putting three or four question marks at the end?
Many's the time I wouldn't answer a question, but gosh darn it, it was asked with five question marks, and how can you resist that?
- If you come upon an event whereby something is lost (not loost), you say you lose it. Not loose it.
- If you are counterfeiting a ten-dollar bill, you do not make it more of a ten-dollar bill, as I supposed when I was five, by writing lots of "10"s all over it. By the same token, you cannot increase the question-ness of a sentence by appending lots of question marks. One per sentence gets you all the question you're going to get.
Thank you for your attention.
Posted by: Fritz Anderson
| @ January 18, 2006 12:52:18 PM CST ( ) |
The Miss Information web log is very entertaining. The log focuses on the acerbic observations of a library clerk (apparently a different grade of employment from librarian where she works) in an urban library. Her exact employer is ascertainable from internal evidence, but as she doesn't mention it outright, I won't spill it here.
Miss Information is a Major Babe.
Posted by: Fritz Anderson
| @ January 1, 2006 3:39:19 PM CST ( ) |
unseen, the Power Macintosh G3 that hosted manoverboard.org for six years, running (at the end) Mandrake Linux 8.x, failed on 21 December 2005. After an hour or two of pushing the power button in hope of persuading it, I at last concluded unseen was gone for good.
Fortunately, I had another Power Mac, towerofart, a dual-G4. I'm also an Apple Developer Connection Select member, which entitles me to a free license for Mac OS X Server. I had the machine reformatted and mail service restored within a few hours, and went to bed just after four in the morning.
My midnight installation was of version 10.3 of Mac OSXS; the 10.4 download is in the form of a DVD-ROM image, and I don't have a DVD burner. I had an installation DVD the next afternoon, and upgraded to 10.4. That version of Mac OSXS includes a weblog application, and forward inertia had me activate it and start posting.
As my book, Step into Xcode, is due out in a few weeks, I expect this will be a good way to process errata. We'll see.
Posted by: Fritz Anderson
| @ December 23, 2005 11:52:31 AM CST ( ) |
This is the first entry, in which the novice web-logger stumbles blinking into the new day.
Let me say right at the start that I do not use the word blog, at least not on first reference. It is a contraction, and the full phrase web log, which is descriptive of the thing, ought to take priority. I suspect people who say blog without explanation of being quietly satisfied at the bewilderment of those who don't know the word.
So I start off on a crotchet. But I have a heart of gold.
Posted by: Fritz Anderson
| @ December 22, 2005 10:19:08 PM CST ( ) |
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