Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
After installing Apple’s latest security update on my Mac I could no longer use the Emacs editor. The problem was easy to fix by correcting the permissions of the main binary.
I decided nevertheless to report this problem to Apple using their bug reporting system. A few days later Apple requested more information which I provided [...]
The time had finally come to produce the sequel to my (in)famous Lego Train movie. But because I wanted to surpass the first part of the trilogy I needed the right equipment and crew:
More tracks
An exotic filming location
A better camera (unfortunately still no video camera, blame Sony for that)
And last but not least a [...]
My wife and I have three computers which we use frequently: the server, my desktop and the notebook which my wife usually uses as her desktop. We have up to date backups of the server, a somewhat recent backup of my desktop but no backups of the notebook.
The system partition of one of these three [...]