This is how not to install Tiger on an older G4:

Insert DVD.
Listen to DVD whir.
Realize you only have a CDRW installed, not a DVDR.
Mutter obscenities.
Re-visit the horror of installing the CDRW into the G4.
Locate old slot-load DVD-Rom drive.
Crack the G4 case and splice in the DVD-R.
Install Tiger, and be amazed.

Ahh, the first bits of fallout from Trent’s experiment: a mashup of The Hand that Feeds and the Ghostbusters theme song titled The Ghost That Feeds.

The O’Reilly developers have compiled a quick list of really useful bash Tricks.

Bastet, or “Bastard Tetris”, is pure evil, written in ncurses. (Daniel, I put this bag of hell in my bin directory on Pale, btw.) Go get it and play it when you’re stressed. Then shoot something.

In reference to this post, yeah, AppRocket sucks.

It’s fairly good as a launcher — better than most, but it still gets confused by multiple matching Start Menu items. For example, if you type ‘FIR’, intending to launch Firefox, AppRocket will show you multiple instances of Firefox: one for “All users”, and one for your account. Overall, the program is no Quicksilver.

It still would’ve been a keeper had it not been ninja-payware. Nowhere on the AppRocket webpage or on the download page is anything listed about how the app will self-destruct after about a month if you don’t buy it. I’ve checked all around the site and still see nothing about this auto-expiry.

I really, really hate ninja-payware. If a developer doesn’t have the balls to tell me that I have to buy its product, instead sneaking in an auto-expiration “feature”, it seems to me said developer has little faith in both its own product.

This site shows a stack-ranked list of gas prices, low to high, for the Atlanta area.

Thanks to this Disturbing Search Request, I’ve got some horrible mental images I’ll have to scrub out of my brain for the next few hours.