I’ve just started learning Python as I need it for a project. So far I find the language pretty easy to use; the major caveat being that I know virtually nothing of what is available. I did manage to do a bit of graph processing, however, and draw this neat tree using pydot and pyparsing: […]
Isn’t Socialism Really Un-solidary?
In the following I’ll use left and right to be purely economical terms. That is, the more left a party is, the more it is for economical equality: everybody should earn the same despite ability and (the more left you get) willingness to work. At the same time, the more to the right you get, the more you are for everybody should earn their own money and pay their own expenses.
Communism dictates that the state (or people) own everything and all are paid the same amount or the amount they need. Capitalism dictates that we pay nothing to the common kitty, and hence there is nothing to distribute; you basically want to get as much of the money you earn as you can. Most countries are somewhere in between nowadays. […]
Parallels Desktop
I can highly recommend the newest version of Parallels Desktop for running Windows applications under OS X. I already posted, showing how the new Crystal mode makes the integration near-perfect. Disclaimer: I’m not associated with Parallels (or whatever their company is called), just a happy customer. I thought, I’d follow up on that. Today, I’ve […]
Another Britney DVD
Received another Britney DVD today 🙂 It’s an unauthorized dual-disc biography. Looking forward to it. Still waiting for my TSC boxes, though. […]
WorldOfBritney’s Twitter Hacked
Hmmm… This is getting old. It seems that now also WorldOfBritney’s Twitter account has been hacked. The hack is way less elegant than the hack of Britney’s account a couple days ago. Here’s the scoop: This, of course, was also discovered by BRITannica of Britney.com fame: Edit: Aaaand it’s been fixed: […]
Mac OS X Server as VPN End-point and File Server
When I wrote about setting up a Mac Mini Server up for basic operation, I promised showing how to set it up as a VPN endpoint, but ended up forgetting to. Also, I neglected to show how to add file shares. Let’s remedy that now. VPN End-point This is really easy. As I only use […]
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