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Two ways to improve OS-X…

By docwhat | Published: 2010-04-19
I found this excellent article, Mac OS X SSD tweaks by Ricardo Gameiro, and have stolen two of the ideas for my non-SSD MacBook Pro laptop. I’ll cover all three, though, since I don’t agree with his hibernation trick.
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We Haz Ferrets!

By docwhat | Published: 2010-04-09
We just got our selves a pair of ferrets. Yay! And boy are they cute and energetic.
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Ruby Debugging

By docwhat | Published: 2010-03-29
There is a ruby-debugger gem which is very handy for trouble shooting problems in a ruby script. The built in debugging is quite powerful and worth learning to use. First off, install ruby-debug:
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Stupid Git Trick

By docwhat | Published: 2010-03-26
This was one of those dumb things that I should have figured out earlier. If you use emacs for editing then you probably have a customized .emacs file. Even if you don’t, your system is probably loading a boatload of features for emacs. I certainly have a ton of elisp that I use to make [...]
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MacHeist nanoBundle 2

By docwhat | Published: 2010-03-03
There is a new MacHeist nanoBundle. For $20, it looks like some fun mac-ish tools to play with. Yeah, I’m one of those people who can have fun simply playing with new software. Hmm…I have apparently also posted 120 posts to my blog. Wow! I didn’t notice till I played with MacJournal. And yes, this [...]
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