Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections

clipped from support.apple.com To configure a Mac OS X user account so that .DS_Store files are not created when interacting with a remote file server using the Finder, follow the steps below. Note: This will affect the user's interactions with SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV servers. Open the Terminal. Type: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true Press Return. Restart the computer. If you want to prevent .DS_Store file creation for other users on the same computer, log in to each user account and perform the steps above—or distribute a copy of your newly modified com.apple.desktopservices.plist file to the ~/Library/Preferences folder of other target users.

Peace n Love

can we reel it in..

clipped from peacecandidates.com "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." ~Jimi Hendrix "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death" Martin Luther King Jr.

Slaves to the Money Lenders

our dominant paradigm

clipped from www.blackvoices.com "If you want to remain slaves of the bankers and pay for the costs of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control the Nation's credit" - Sir Josiah Stamp 1880-1941.

Thomas Jefferson - Establishments of Religion Undermine Rights

Religion has a lot to answer for.

clipped from etext.virginia.edu "The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800. "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes." --Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1813. ME 14:21 "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." --Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119 "The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:98

ZoneAlarm what are you doing to us?

They are a trusted component of my computer's security software, but when I decided to see what I could find about the recent Ad-On I found this.
Is it just huff?

clipped from securitygarden.blogspot.com Well, folks, times have changed. The once highly trusted ZoneAlarm has betrayed that trust. The installation is completed and the computer user launches their browser and discovers that the ZoneAlarm SpyBlocker comes in the form of the Ask Toolbar!

Water fueled Car

Yet another great invention thwarted primarily because *they* want to keep selling us stuff we don't or shouldn't need.

clipped from www.waterfuelcell.org It Runs on Water is a video with Stanley Meyer demonstrating the water fuel cell in a car. Meyer claimed that he could run a 1.6 liter Volkswagen Dune Buggy on water instead of gasoline. He replaced the spark plugs with "injectors" to spray a fine mist into the engine cylinders, which he claimed were electrified at a resonant frequency. The fuel cell would split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which would combust back into water vapor in a conventional hydrogen engine to produce net energy. Estimates made showed that only 22 US gallons (83 L) of water were required to travel from one US coast to the other. Meyer also demonstrated his vehicle for his city's local news station Action 6 News. A video of the buggie in action can be found here.

DNS problems

So some services are still working but your browser is losing touch with the internet?
ie. for me I was still chatting in Skype yet my browser (Firefox) was losing contact with Gmail..

1st u (at the command line) can try:

ipconfig /flushdns

still no joy? then try:

net stop dnscache
net start dnscache

gluck

The Power of Love

When the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix

How to Remove Broken/Dead iTunes links

I originally tried the idea below by Paul Mayne (thank you) but now I just delete ALL the links and then go to File and Add Folder again. All my music is in one central folder and seeing as moving music results in lost dead links and lost *rankings* I figure it's just easier to re-add the folder.

clipped from www.paulmayne.org 1. Make a smart playlist called “All Files” with this rule: “Artist” is not “123456789″ (or any nonsense name that won’t be in your library). 2. Make a static playlist called “All Live Files”. 3. Make a smart playlist called “Missing Files” with these rules: Match all of the following rules, Playlist is “All Files”, Playlist is not “All Live Files” 4. Select all the files from “All Files” and drag them into “All Live Files”. The dead files marked (!) will not copy over. 5. “Missing Files” will contain all of your dead files. Select all and delete. Voila, a nice clean iTunes library. I have these three playlists in their own folder. Whenever I gather more than a couple dead tracks for whatever reason, I delete all the tracks in “All Live Files” and repeat steps 4 and 5.

Man's Redemption

Bertrand Russell Quotes.
To all those that have a strong "Us & Them" mentality and wish to keep the world at arms length.

clipped from www.brainyquote.com The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.