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Combatting Helvetica and Helvetica Neue in 10.5

Font handling in OS X 10.5 is supposed to be better overall. So far, I've noticed Apple has moved the per user and system font caches to /tmp, which is probably a good move. 10.4.x didn't automatically purge font caches, which caused problems for folks who happened to activate and deactivate tons of fonts on a regular basis.

Lucid systems administration

Time management is a problem for most people I know, especially the tech-nerdy sorts.

Solving problems and creating a balance between work and free time takes discipline and motivation, but it's not brain surgery.

Microsoft releases Office 2007 document converter for Macs

If you've received any documents created with a copy of Office 2007 for Windows and haven't been able to open them in Office X or Office 2004, your fix has arrived.

Check out this article for more details or just download the tool directly here.

Don't accidentally delete your stuff

It's pretty easy to use the rm command to delete data. It's also pretty easy to delete the wrong data if you're not careful.

A simple way to avoid accidentally deleting everything with a rm -rf is to create a file named just -i in directories you definitely don't want to nuke. The -i will ask for your confirmation before deleting the files in question. Are you sure? Really?

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