Two thumbs down for Mac OS X 10.6.5

This morning, I installed the update for Mac OS X 10.6.5. After the installer was done and my MacPro rebooted, my primary monitor no longer worked. I have a KVM that allows me to share a pair of Dell monitors, one 19 inch and a 24 inch, between my MacPro and my HP Z800 workstation. Once … Read more

You are kidding… Right?

This was posted at http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html Rewards The first finder of any error in my books receives 0x$1.00 ($2.56), deposited to their account at the Bank of San Serriffe; significant suggestions are also worth 0x$0.20 ($0.32) each. If you are really a careful reader, you may be able to recoup more than the cost of the … Read more

Pop-up dictionary

I found this tip from osxhelp.com, where you can get a pop-up dictionary window in Mac OS X by clicking Command+Control+D while hovering the cursor over a word. I found though that this does’t work with every application, like in Google Chrome when I’m editing a blog entry, but almost every other application seems to … Read more