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I like all kinds of food.

php 5.3: short_open_tag default has changed!

Posted on September 24, 2009 by dre

Snow Leopard Server includes an upgrade of PHP to version 5.3. This version has a changed default for the “short_open_tag” option as compared to the version that shipped in Leopard server. The difference is that short_open_tag is now disabled by … Continue reading →

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Blog Post

Posted on August 15, 2009 by dre

Hi again. Been a while… After about a year on Apple’s customer software seeding team, I scooped up an opportunity to move to software engineering proper, and now work in Apple’s Mac OS X Server organization on the iCal Server … Continue reading →

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eggdrop1.6.19+ctcpfix

Posted on July 6, 2009 by dre

Not exactly new, but since I’m the eggdrop maintainer for macports, and since I haven’t updated this port for almost 3 years… here ya go! Macports users may sudo port -d selfupdate to retrieve the updated Portfile (and new patch … Continue reading →

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4870: why aren’t you supported on MacPro1,1?

Posted on June 26, 2009 by dre

UPDATE: This is no longer a mystery. If you want the punchline, please proceed directly to the comments at the end of this post. The ATI HD 4870 video card is a nice upgrade from the NVidia 8800 GT (my … Continue reading →

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The Problem With Twitter

Posted on March 24, 2009 by dre

The Problem With Twitter is that the concept of ‘signal to noise ratio’ is an intensely personal thing. It varies greatly with mood, activity level of people being followed, current political events, weather, appetite, what’s on sale this weekend, presence … Continue reading →

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Thanks Rachel!

Posted on February 26, 2009 by dre

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#29171520 She’s the most adorable newscaster of our time because: * She is either genuine, or good enough to fool me. Either way, I’m satisfied in this respect. * She’s one of the very few in the mainstream who attempts … Continue reading →

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When your seagate 1.5 TB hard drive begins to fail…

Posted on February 24, 2009 by dre

you might say to yourself, “yes, that’s definitely busted up. I can tell by all the fsck failures, and how sometimes it’ll spin up and down a bunch of times all anxious-like, right before a nasty kernel panic.” perhaps you … Continue reading →

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Winterland wondertime

Posted on December 25, 2008 by dre

It’s not snowy or anything in San Jose, however I still present to you the following, in celebration of the times: http://dreness.com/media/winter_wonderland.m4a This is a cut from a collection of live sets from Wynton Marsalis (and several variations on his septet) … Continue reading →

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Cross-application URL cache searching!

Posted on October 27, 2008 by dre

I was out taking a (filesystem) walk, and wandered into /var/folders. Not remembering where / when this came from, I was pleased to find that the hier(7) manpage is aware of this directory, describing it as ‘per-user temporary files and … Continue reading →

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oops

Posted on October 9, 2008 by dre

I forgot to localize an image in this post, instead linking directly to it… I know better, but I guess not that time. Anyway, of course now it’s gone… and so I’ve had to delete it and then retroactively re-title … Continue reading →

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