kill-9.it^2.5

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, even [...]

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?) [...]

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?

Ieri ho provato uno dei nuovi Ipod.
L’interfaccia mi pare migliorata, ugualmente usabile e rapida. In alcuni casi presenta informazioni che sul mio (5G) non ci sono.
Mi chiedevo quante differenze ci fossero a livello hardware tra le due serie, e se fosse possibile mettere il firmware del nuovo sul vecchio. Direi da quello che ho letto [...]