It might just be me but Be's router doesn't come with great instructions and the username and password info in the guide is just plain outdated and wrong as of September 2009.

Here are some notes to help you if you're trying to sign in to your Thomson router (BeBox).

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I was running the LLVM/Clang Static Analyzer on my iPhone project today and got the following error:

"Pass-by-value argument in message expression is undefined"

That means as much to me as "blah blah blah blee is undefined" so I looked at the code that was triggering it. Here's a simplified version:

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Sure, it can withstand a nuclear war, and we've got some records, but how much of our beloved Internet is a database error away from being lost?

Reading Robin Wauter's tweet and the heart-wrenching paragraph that is all that's left of one man's four years of blogging, it made me think again how little time most of us devote to backing things up.

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The comprehensive uninstallation directions for MacPython comprise the single sentence: "To uninstall MacPython, you can simply remove these three things." The three things refer to the MacPython 2.5 application folder (/Applications/MacPython), the framework (/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework), and (I'm assuming) the symlink in /usr/local/bin.

Unfortunately, what it doesn't tell you is that unless you also remove all files with names starting with Python under /Library/Receipts, the installer won't let you reinstall MacPython (it checks these to see what is already installed). Instead the installer tells you that a newer version is installed, marks the files "skip", and fails with "nothing to install".

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I've been a paid-up subscriber of the much-hyped Mozy remote backup system for about a year now. The only problem is that I haven't really used it in that time and I emailed them a few days ago to ask them to cancel my account (and I haven't heard back yet). The reason: I haven't successfully backed up once on my Mac.

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