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  • OS X Yosemite install stupid

    So, the OS X Yosemite installer checks your hard drive before installing.  Makes sense, right?  You don’t want something wrong with the drive leaving you with a broken installation.  Now, you’d think this would be the first thing the installer does- while most problems can’t be fixed while the drive is mounted, they can be…


  • bc

    So, I just discovered the Unix tool bc.  Given that I’m a Mac guy as much for the Unix as for anything else, this got me interested. bc is a mathematical programming language and interactive calculator.  The latter is useful, sometimes I need a calculator, and for what I’m doing that instant, a terminal app…