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Archive for January 4th, 2008

Suit Demands Apple License Microsoft DRM - Yahoo! News

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Suit Demands Apple License Microsoft DRM - Yahoo! News
This suit is idiotic.  Whatever happened to buyer beware?  It’s pretty clear to anyone that reads the info that iPods don’t play WMA files.  If you don’t like it, don’t buy an iPod.
How come nobody sues GM for not allowing Ford parts in their cars?  Or vice [...]

Smarticus — Leopard 100% CPU usage caused by syslogd and possibly Time Machine.

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Smarticus — Leopard 100% CPU usage caused by syslogd and possibly Time Machine.
I ran into a similar problem to this, but it wasn’t because of Time Machine.  In my case, IntelliJ was logging a bunch of errors to the console, which then also go to the syslog.  My solution was two-fold, turn of console logging [...]