kill-9.it^2.5

Leggo e volentieri riporto il post sul blog di paolo sull’ Agile Day 2009, conferenza unica nel suo genere, organizzata senza budget faraonici ma ricca di contenuti.
Se fate sviluppo software (e non solo), fateci un salto: Venerdì 20 Novembre 2009, a Bologna.

beepbeep:~ zen$ date
Tue Oct 20 19:34:42 CEST 2009
beepbeep:~ zen$ host www.flickr.com
www.flickr.com is an alias for www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com.
www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com has address 68.142.214.24
www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com mail is handled by 0 .
beepbeep:~ zen$ telnet www.flickr.com 80
Trying 68.142.214.24…
telnet: connect to address 68.142.214.24: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

weird.
The very same www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com handles api.flickr.com (which is, unsurprisingly, down).
Doesn’t look smart from here.

Like it happens on Windows, when you decide to delete something OSX simply moves that file or directory to “the Trash”, which is just a hidden directory on the volume you’re deleting from. Then, you right click on the Trash icon and select “Empty trash”.
This action pops up a small window like this:

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