fun with the mac today.
for the past 2 days i've been browsing mostly using chimera nightlies. after "moving to trash" the flash plugin, it seems to not suck all cpu quite as often as it used to. it crashes every once in a while, and doesn't remember my passwords, but it's quite a bit zippier that it's larger cousing, and the location bar can keep up with my typing.
cause i was lonely and she was ka-ray-zee
i noticed the new powermacs come with jaguar and ship in 1-3 days. grr. i really want strtok_r().
Work becomes ever more depressing, routine, improved only by the occasional near-death experience.
today, while doing some bug-buddy hacking, i figured out how to get sendmail working. it turns out it was shipped setuid (root), rather than setgid (smmsp). once i flipped those bits, bug-buddy happily submitted bug reports. oh, and editing /etc/hostconfig gets sendmail started up at boot. yay.
"Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun."
i'm typing this on my back "porch" (really just some stairs) because it's intensely hot inside. my normal airport card doesn't seem to get this far, but fortunately i found some orinoco drivers for os x. their install(er) didn't work, but after cp'ing the files into their correct location, things seem to be working fine (although i haven't suspended, which was killed my linux vaios). well, almost fine. i seem to have acquired some more mosquito bites. also this scares me.