kill-9.it^2.5

(A post every 10 months. I hope that does not annoy you :) It will not take long to read, anyway. ) Transmission is a great BitTorrent client. It is full of features (look at the site!), including bandwidth control, and runs on every platform (Linux and Mac :P). You can choose global upload and [...]

So, who am I supposed to trust? (it turns out that Husdawg LLC is a perfectly “legal” ActiveX provider, but Intel does not mention them anywhere — just hoping people will click through?)

At first I did not notice, but emptying the trash took ages, even “not securely”. Well, being the geek I am I did a quick dtruss on the Locum process, which spit out a huge list of write_nocancel syscalls. So, it seems it was actually writing stuff over the files I asked him to delete, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]