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Pentadactyl/Vimperator do absolutely have that (set showtabline=never). I use Pentadactyl, and a Shift-B (show buffers) followed by a gt will get me to wherever I need to go. This …

While I appreciate the effort to bring attention to the serious differences between the simply well-off and the astonishingly-rich-and-powerful, I'm having trouble wrapping my head…

I am in fact. If I remember correctly (I may very well not!) Mac OS 8 or so (maybe 8.5) was the height of the let's-never-ever-deviate-from-the-HIG days. This also included a glori…

This is undoubtedly true (with the flagrant exception of iCal and Address Book), but some of us old-timey Mac users remember a glorious past full of matte gray and a spatial Finder…

It's pretty deeply preferable to "co-operating," if you ask me.

They'll tend to see them as protecting the interests of business, which has, for whatever reason, become part and parcel of supporting the "free market" in contemporary American po…

To clarify, as one who has now and again been involved in "IRL" activism: blocking a road to hold a protest is a crime, legally-speaking.* In fact, police SOP for a protest that's …

A Debian Developer has a good set of articles[1] on this vulnerability. It's really a pretty astonishing aspect of FireWire. Time to whip out the epoxy, I reckon. [1]: http://www.h…

Likewise, as much as the last name "Winklevoss" makes me want them to be the stuck-up rich assholes to Zuckerberg's self-made work ethic, Zuckerberg did go to Harvard from Phillips…

I don't know how many other folks feel this way, but I would kill for a GUI-less version of your client. I'd love to configure XML files, or some (any!) analog. I've been looking f…

Hell is other people!

I'm hoping (maybe against hope…) that Twitter isn't representative of the whole country.