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MagSafe Power Adapter my ass!!!

Anything but the other

Written about the Apple Magsafe Power Adapter 85W:

…features a magnetic DC connector that ensures your power cable will disconnect if it experiences undue strain and helps prevent fraying or weakening of the cables over time….

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC556LL/B

My ass!!! No I need to buy a complete new power adapter because the power cable has not disconnected when it experienced strain, and because of that it has not prevented fraying and weakening of the cable…which other product needs a complete webpage describing what not to do with it? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1630 – Apple user friendliness my ass!!

Can I buy just the cable, no way Jose!! I need to buy a freakin complete new adapter, which some kids in Asia has made by their own hands in the middle of the night so I can surf the Internet…

The Joy of Stats

Leisure

Statistics and such, by no means my best field, but explained by Professor Hans Rosling in this one hour documentary http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l (NRK3) it is in fact very interesting and somewhat fun. Like: Can computers analyze our feelings? They can, by harvesting all sentences starting with “I feel” from the vast amount of blogs on the Internet, maybe mine as well?

In one hour people all around the world consumes 7092 tons of bananas…

This again reminds me about Watson, the machine who won Jeopardy

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Linux – find files older than 24 hours

Work/Geek

Something that easy turned out to be pretty hardcore

Take the file modification time in seconds and subtract the start time of the find program. This is the number of seconds in the past that the file was modified. Now divide by 86400 and discard any remainder. This is the number of days ago (as computed by the find command) that the file was modified. So the result you see is the expected result. You want:
-mtime +0

Solution found here www.unix.com/…/..problem-find