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free music? free as in speech, that is

[From Apple - QuickTime - Macworld 2009 Keynote] cf:

what will the chickenhawks say about this?

What gives you the right to f*** with our lives: VII: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Ronald L. Paulsen, 53, of Vancouver, Wash., died on Oct. 17 in Tarmiya, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his [...]

creaky

The update to 10.4.6 may not have gone as badly as I thought. There are rumors that permissions cleanup tasks make the install take longer. To my mind it was just hung. Got to a message about IPv6 and then just stopped. So I reverted back to 10.4 and ran the massive updaters overnight. After [...]