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Snow Leopard – Trash can won’t empty

Work/Geek

For some reason that the “Secure empty trash”-function refuses to tell me, it would not totally empty my trash on our Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I stumbled across this Youtube-clip that got me started http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTY8kHd0Hw [video:youtube:lPTY8kHd0Hw]
Point is that you need to go to the terminal and do a

cd ./.Trash
sudo rm -rf *.*

to get the files deleted. If you watch the video don’t worry about all the warnings of how dangerous the command is and also the thing he says that the command can have change – it won’t change, this is a basic Linux/Unix command. Anyhow, this helped me out and I got to empty the trash totally. I guess it is a feature, but I hate the fact that it cannot empty my trash without me using command line sudo rm…

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

[video:youtube:o6oS64Bpx0g]

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