To all you moms out there, but especially to my mom and Isaac's mom.

funny stuff...

Spin the Black Circle

I like the snake game...it's pretty cool that this guy wrote a flash version in less than 1k.

500 is the highest I can muster right now...

I remember ps -aux from my BSDi Unix days, but I wanted to expirement a little with it in terminal on OS X.  I found a good version of it for OS X that gives me most of the useful information I need:

ps -axO user,pid,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,tt,state,start,time,command

So...how to alias in OS X...

aliases usually live in your .bashrc file in the form of:
alias psa="ps -axO user,pid,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,tt,state,start,time,command"
That would alias the command string above to a command psa

But, evidently when you open a bash shell in OS X it doesn't load .bashrc by default.

So, you need to add "source ~/.bashrc" to your .bash_login (which also doesn't exist by default)

Clear?

Thanks to Mark, I now know how to capture the screen easily on my mac.  Should have known this about day 3 in OS X, but necessity is the mother of knowledge, as they say...

First, from a terminal, change your preferences to capture jpgs:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

Then, you can screen capture from any app (assuming you haven't overwritten the default global shortcuts) by using cmd-shift-3 to capture the screen and cmd-shift-4 to capture a selection.  If you choose selection, spacebar will capture the window your mouse cursor is over.

Screenshots are saved to the desktop.

Little Snitch reported Google Updater wants to connect to "t" (usually it's an IP or full hostname).  Very strange...should I let it? :-D

Very interesting link to a link about beating full disk encryption:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/cold_boot_attac.html

The short of it is that your computer's RAM is not cleared immediately upon losing power, and someone else could boot up to an alternate operating system and grab the contents of your RAM.  That would enable them to possibly find and use any full-disk encryption keys you might have been using.

Scary stuff.