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Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding
Apples Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend

post from Daring Fireball on 10 April 2006 03:06:02 PM. © Daring Fireball

Boot Camp has opened the door for a lot of additional speculationregarding what this means going forward for Apple. I think it’s onlyfair for me to go on the record regarding which of these ideasreally would be shocking, if they were to come to pass.

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A matter of time

post from Mac 911 Weblog on 10 April 2006 02:17:00 PM. © Mac 911 Weblog

Residence in select Indiana counties + pre-Tiger OS = No DST. The solution here.

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Boot Camp and AppleCare

post from The Apple Blog on 10 April 2006 01:03:40 PM. © The Apple Blog

MacSlash is running a story on AppleCare’s position on installing beta software. More importantly, this discussion points out this nice tidbit in the EULA:SHOULD THE APPLE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATIONS ON APPLICABLE [...]

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Pretty-Print Manual Pages as PS, PDF, or HTML

You can use the groff tool to convert manual pages into PostScript, PDF, or HTML form for pretty viewing, printing, posting to a webpage, easy searching with Spotlight, or any other purpose, if you like. Manpages are stored in a simple mandoc format for which the groff formatting tool has an understanding (indeed, groff is used by man to display the page in the first place). groff also has an understanding of a wide variety of other formats to display things in, however man only uses the normal display format so only the few that look into such things would notice the fun to be had.

First, to get a manual page that looks like the version man brings up, you tell groff to use ASCII or UTF8 as the output form. To get groff to do it, however, you need to tell it the location of the actual mandoc file, which man gives you with the -w flag.

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