Archive for November, 2002

What historians do know about Thanksgiving

There are many myths surrounding Thanksgiving. Here are nine things we do know are true about the holiday.

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iApp for MySQL

The simple tool to create and edit your MySQL databases without too many hassles. The philosophy is to cover those not-too-complicated databases that make up the large majority of databases on the web – and elsewhere. The feature set is limited for exactly this goal: if a feature is not used in most databases, then [...]

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320GB Drive

SlimLine Ultra III 3.5″ 320GB/5400 RPM, ATA-100 Compliant Professional External FireWire/iLINK HardDisk System (4th Generation Oxford911 Bridge Design) w/ 6Pin/6Pin FireWire Cable, InTech’s HardDisk SpeedTools Suite v3.5 (when ordered for Macintosh) and (110-240V) Power Adapter. (WIN/MAC) Price: $549.00 http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/UltraIII.shtml

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SINGLE EVENT EFFECTS

Single event effects (SEE) are individual events that occur when a single incident ionizing particle deposits enough energy to cause an effect in a device. In space applications single event effects (SEE) are due to: 1. cosmic rays and 2. high-energy protons. The SEEs from cosmic rays are primarily due to the heavy ion component [...]

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November 16th OSXFAQ Party

This weekend we are having a OSXFAQ informal get together. Come meet me and some staff members of OSXFAQ and grab a beer and hang out and see a GREAT band !!!

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Modify your About Mac “X”

Are you disappointed with the decision to keep the “aqua” X in 10.2? Well here’s a way to change at least the About Window to look a little more Jag-like. Download this file Jag X to your desktop. Then use these commands in the Terminal: % sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff /Users/*username*/Pictures % sudo mv /Users/*username*/Desktop/AboutBox.tiff /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff [...]

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Marine Corps Birthday Celebration

The U.S. Marine Corps begins preparations for its “birthday party” every summer. Activities become more feverish as the fall hues arrive. By early November, every Marine is either rehearsing his role in the “party” or pressing, polishing, and spit-shining in order to appear at his or her best for the Birthday Ball. This has not [...]

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Convert your Email

Emailchemy 1.4 converts email from many popular email applications to standard, portable formats, including RFC-822 mailboxes, comma-separated value files, and Apple’s Mail.app format. The new version adds an Entourage converter, a Neoplanet converter and wizard, an Outlook Express 5 for UNIX/Solaris converter and wizard, and an improved Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh converter. Emailchemy is [...]

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My Favorite Martian

MFM is a program that will allow you publish and subscribe to your Internet Explorer favorites to and from a remote FTP site, iDisk or iPod. It was designed to keep all of your favorites together on whatever computers you work on, whether at home, work or on the road. Very cool stuff…no more switching [...]

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Three must-have shareware apps for OS X

Having been on an OS X only diet (no Dell use at all, minus KaZaa) for a few weeks now I have three apps that are a must have for any connected user: 1) Gyaz Mail – this mail app rivals Apple’s app in almost every way. There are many things still coming, but this [...]

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