Articles posted on May 19th, 2004

O’Reilly article on fight against spam

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 • 11:11 pm

O’Reilly columnist François Joseph de Kermadec has a new column on the fight against spam that contains some good advice for people struggling with spam. I already follow most of his recommendations, and still get spam, so obviously his recommendations are not a cure, but they will definitely help if you are now following them […]

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Panther: Screen saver freezes (again)

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 • 10:48 pm

Yup. It’s happened again. Tried to woke my G4 from (display) sleep this morning. Got the frozen screen saver animation frame. Had to do a hard reset. It definitely looks like this problem is completely independent from the freezes that I used to get while working, which appear to have been linked to a defective […]

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Adam Engst (TidBITS) on word processors

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 • 3:13 am

Adam Engst of TidBITS fame has just written a column that’s pretty much required reading for anyone who’s serious about the Mac as a writing tool. His column is a compelling demonstration of what’s still sorely lacking in today’s word processors, including the de facto standard Microsoft Word. I am just slightly surprised that he […]

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