Way cool! I'm normally not a fan of guns, but this picture is awesome: (via Flickr)

FreeBSD's maintainability has been measured according to an index suggested by Ioannis Samoladas et al.

Merging two old photo libraries (one that constantly made iPhoto crash that worked well when upgraded to iPhoto 5 with other old ones that I used to make iPhoto 2 quicker) I came across Cleaning iPhoto and Mac::Glue. So a quick:

<br /> perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Mac::Glue"'<br /> gluemac /Applications/iPhoto.app<br />

and off I was using his scripts to compare MD5 hashes. I'll be using Mac::Glue to do the same cleaning up for iTunes where my duplicate count is getting higher quickly.

And in case you're one of my friends who know I don't like perl, I still don't. But the alternative was AppleScript

This is so cool: thigs guy makes his own lenses, and they give great results.

The TNT delivery guy was here and delivered my iLife '05 pack which I bought solely because of iPhoto. (Apple refused to give me a student discount for the software, even though I ordered via the net. I've heared people don't get student discounts in Apple's stores.) I use my Canon Ixus, Canon EOS 20D, HP Scanner and Nikon negativescanner much, so being very annoyed about the sluggish performance of iPhoto 2 but loving its way of interacting with my blog and organising pictures, and hearing good thing about performance on iPhoto 4 and that iPhoto 5 would be better performance wise, I decided to upgrade after they threw in RAW handling (which seems to be a total fake).

First impression: the DVD was filthy. I opened the box, took it out of its envelope, and had to clean it before ...