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This is documented by Apple but I had never realized it: if you put a Mac in Firewire Target Disk Mode, its DVD drive is also available, and it can be used to boot, for example, a machine that does not have a DVD drive (hold down Option while turning the machine on to access [...]

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For a long time, I have automatically posted my delicious.com bookmarks, using the most excellent Postalicious Wordpress plugin. However, now that my FriendFeed feed is in the sidebar, this seems redundant. The FF feed includes not only the bookmarks, but a lot of other activity, such as my Google Reader shared items, additions to my [...]

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Today I learned how to add support for undo/redo operations using NSUndoManager. This was completely new to me, and I was surprised at how cleverly done it is – essentially, for every operation that you want to undo, you provide the “inverse” operation, and NSUndoManager takes care of keeping them in appropriate stacks for undo/redo, [...]

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I have installed the Intense Debate plugin for handling comments on this blog. Not that there are that many comments , just to see how it works. I think it’s nice that it automatically synchronizes comments two ways to the regular WP comments, so that if you disable it, all the comments are still [...]

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I am not a political person, this is not a political blog, and I am not a U.S. citizen, but like many others, I have watched this year’s U.S. presidential election with much interest, and I am very happy that Obama has won. I just want to post something quick with some of the interesting [...]

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