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I just received a flood of bounced messages – bounced messages that I didn’t send.
If you received one of these messages, then I need to make this clear to you: I did not send them. I’m sorry you got them, I really am, but I had nothing to do with it.
The problem is a technical one, but it comes down to this: some mail servers make you prove who you are before you send email. Some don’t. The ones that don’t are the ones that the SPAMmers take advantage of, and so they are part of the problem.
If you get a SPAM, please try to report it to the system administrators of where it originated from. If you need help doing that, then I suggest you check out the CAUCE website, or Fight Spam on the Internet. I have nothing to do with either organization other than agreeing with their goals of stopping SPAM – so if they have bad information, or tell you to do something and you get in trouble, please don’t come back here to yell at me.

Sorry, but the site is moving. If you’re seeing this post, then everything is all set – otherwise, wait a bit and try again ;).

If you’re using IE 5 or higher, you can use the Preferences to control what the tab key does when on a page – go from field to field in a form, or link to link.
But if you have it set one way and want to do the other…. you can hold down the option key while hitting tab – that makes it do the opposite of the current setting.

Mac OS X Server 10.2: How to Set Up Print Load Balancing Using CUPS
Apple is now including the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) with Mac OS X – and it’s a good thing. You can use CUPS to manage print jobs and printers via your web browser, making life just a little bit easier….

USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID
It’s cool and unusual, but I wonder just how useful it is…….

Karelia Software
Watson is a great program that builds on the idea beind Apple’s Sherlock – and then some. You can watch movie previews while deciding what to see, see what’s on TV, track packages and stocks…. and it goes on from there.
Definately worth checking out!

Anyone know what this is from? Leave a comment…
“My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today we celebrate the first, glorious anniversary of the information Purification Device! We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may be bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on Earth! We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion!”

PerversionTracker: Apparently Useless Software
The highly trained PerversionTracker staff locates the very worst of Mac software. We search the web for 15 minutes a day ï¿‘ so you donï¿•t have to!
They’re right – the stuff they’ve found so far is, indeed, pretty bad. Suffice it to say that I’ll be visiting this site pretty regularly, hoping to find software to avoid.

Mac OS X: How to Start Up in Safe Mode
Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
Having problems with Mac OS X? Wishing there was a way to boot with your “extensions off”? Apple has made a way to boot your computer with the required resources so you can get a “pure” startup, hopefully avoiding something you’ve just installed that hosed everything.
It’s worth a try, right?

CharlesSoft – software you always wished someone would write
I have a Pismo (aka PowerBook G3 2000) with an expansion bay. I took my DVDROM drive out because it wasn’t always working, and I was using my Zip drive a lot. When I installed OS X, it didn’t see the DVD, so it didn’t install the DVD software. So, when I got around to wanting to watch a DVD, of course, I couldn’t – the software wasn’t there.
At first I thought I was going to have to re-install, but then a friend told me about Pacifist. It will look at the the .pkg (package) files that the OS and some software programs come in, and allow you to grab just an individual file to install. Handy when all you want to do is install, say, the DVD player.