Articles posted on August 24th, 2004

Panther freezes: still in the dark

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 • 3:23 am

Here’s the latest chapter in my on-going saga with Panther freezes. Since my tests pretty much eliminated the suspicion of a defective RAM module, I tried the next thing on the list, which was to switch to wired Ethernet access to my Local Area Network instead of AirPort-based access about a week ago. Around the […]

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MacFixIt.com: RSS feed links redirected to home page

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 • 2:58 am

I recently subscribed to MacFixIt.com’s RSS feed instead of visiting the web page. There’s something wrong with that feed, though. When I double-click on an article in NetNewsWire to read it in Safari, I get redirected to the site’s home page. It looks like it’s a problem with the article URLs. To give an example, […]

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Gene Weingarten (Washington Post): ‘Fear Itself – Learning to live in the age of terrorism’

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 • 2:49 am

There are tons of articles written about terrorism these days, but I find that this article by Gene Weingarten published in the August 22 issue of the Washington Post is particularly good. I don’t really like the title (possibly chosen by editors and not by the author himself), which is rather oxymoronic: If the main […]

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