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Verbosely emptying the trash

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:

I grew tired [...]

If you recently switched from an older (pre 10.6) version of OS X to the latest baby, and have the old habit of using ssh to connect around, you may have noticed a singular behaviour: while the older versions always asked you for a passphrase (you have a passphrase set on your private key, right?) [...]

At a new $HOME

Finally everything (hopefully) has been moved — if you read this post, the DNS you use has been updated to the new IP.
Sorry it has taken a while, this type of configuration is fairly new to me and a little bit more complex than the previous one — including the upgrade of all the software [...]

We’re going down :)

Per ragioni indipendenti dalla mia volonta`, la macchina che ospita questo sito deve essere spenta entro domani breve.
Nel ringraziare tutti quelli che fino ad oggi le hanno permesso di rimanere su Internet (update 20090924: e che hanno gentilmente prorogato i termini), vi prometto che prima o poi tornera` su (se non nella sostanza, almeno nei [...]

Io me ne sono accorto solo stamattina, ma avete fatto caso che l’icona di “Energy Saver” e` stata trasformata dalla convenzionale lampadina a quella — molto piu` moderna — che ormai e` obbligatoria?




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