Submitted by Damien on
The new Mac OSX client for Subversion, Versions, is finally available for download, albeit a beta version that expires on July 1st. So why another client? Well, because personally I believe most of the current ones available for OSX suck - they're kludgy, ugly, and just aren't well thought out. Get thee hence and download.
Submitted by Damien on
The just-released OSX 10.5.3 finally fixes a weird network problem that many Mac users have been experiencing since starting to use Leopard - some network-based tasks were taking insane amounts of time, e.g. connecting via SSH to remote machines, etc. One of the more unusual effects of this caused the multi-service instant messaging program Adium to not reliably connect to the MSN Messenger service. So good news for Mac users everywhere.
Submitted by Damien on
It seems that the common household banana is potentially heading for disaster. Apparently a fungus has been working its way through the crops of Malaysia and is threatening crops world-wide. A key part of the problem is that our current banana variety, the Cavendish, is not able to reproduce on its own, to grow a new banana plant you take a shoot off the plant itself because the bananas themselves are seedless (a pic of a seeded banana, for comparison). Further complications are that it is possible the fungus will spread to other varieties, including one used in Africa as a staple, which where my concern comes in - this is setting up to be very much a repetition of the mid 1800's Irish famine which caused the deaths of millions of people. :,-(
Submitted by Damien on
Just a gentle warning to be careful of what you read today, for today is April 1st and lots of websites publish fake articles on April Fools Day.
Submitted by Damien on
The company that makes the Airborne "cold remedy" received the mighty slap of justice when they had to settle a court case brought by dissatisfied customers due to their products' "clinical trials" lacking both the "trial" and the "clinical" parts. In other words, their products are nothing more than snake oil. Good to know.
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