A Plea

To anyone who has any influences at Apple’s marketing group:

  1. Please make white “Apple” USB and FireWire cables in all useful lengths and configurations.
  2. Please offer, for a reasonable amount more, the option to have a real CD shipped to you when you buy an album in the iTunes Store. That way you have instant gratification without the postpartum depression from spending money and not having anything physical to show for it.

[composed and posted with ecto]

Roll Your Own

This seems like a pretty smart idea for new linux users. Euronode has a web interface that allows you to customize a Debian-based Linux server. They then create the ISO images for installation with all of the correct configuration files for the services you specify.

[composed and posted with ecto]

Sendmail Localhost Only

To configure Sendmail on Solaris to only listen on the localhost, add the following to /etc/default/sendmail and restart the daemon.

MODE="-bd -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost"

[composed and posted with ecto]