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Posted
17 March 2008 @ 9am

Tagged
IT, Misc

No Deletion for You

Further administrative processing has resulted in your previous identification being reidentified:

You have been identified as having received an erroneous account deletion notification message. The problem that caused you to receive that message has been resolved and your account has been removed from the list of accounts that are scheduled to be deleted on 4/07/2008. […]


Posted
17 March 2008 @ 5am

Tagged
IT, Misc

It was nice while it lasted

In my Inbox this morning, a message sent at 1:05am:

  • Important Notice Concerning Your UA Email/Computer Accounts*

Our records indicate that you may no longer be associated with the University of Arizona as a student or employee. Therefore, your UA Email, Computer Accounts, and/or Super computer account hosted by UITS is scheduled for deletion on […]


Posted
14 January 2008 @ 2pm

Tagged
IT, Misc

Moral Hazard

Activated “Time Machine” backup feature on office Mac: Friday afternoon.

First need to use Time Machine due to inadvertently deleted file: Monday morning.


Workflow Update

Following on from our discussion of editing tools the other day, and in response to a couple of requests, I have updated and somewhat expanded my note about Choosing Your Workflow Applications. The revised version talks about which operating system to choose (to a first approximation, these days I’m agnostic), focuses on Emacs+R+LaTeX as an […]


Appalling Vista

This ad has been playing on various PC websites, such as CNET’s Windows Vista Overview page. It’s a very clever use of sidebars and ad banners.


Posted
30 October 2007 @ 8pm

Tagged
IT

Leopard Oddity

So naturally I upgraded to Leopard a few days ago. Generally a smooth process, with the occasional headache (reinstalling stupid HP printer drivers, grr) balanced out with the occasional pleasant discovery not hyped beforehand (Terminal now aware of the Keychain, hurray). But here’s something that looks like a bug a slightly counterintuitive feature in OS […]


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