January 13, 2009
I thought this was a particularly poetic bit of Installer/Updater catch-22 in action:
Having spent 18 months of my life shafted with maintaining an installer, download manager and patching system, I feel a weird mix of compassion and schadenfreude when I see this kind of stuff…
January 2, 2009
Since I store all the email I ever receive, I have a gianormous storage folder. To make things more managable, I have them split up by year. The eds.org mail server runs the old uw-imapd which stores things as flat mbox files in your home directory. I figured, I wasn’t going to be changing my archive at all, so I set the file permissions on these to read-only. It turns out that my mail client, Apple Mail.app, couldn’t download the email from those folder via IMAP. So I recently discovered that if I set the file permissions to read/write, then it can download everything. Arg, annoying…
