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If you are a programmer you know Unit Tests are a good thing. The Perl developers know that, too, so they have a unit test suite for a lot of their apps. But...

Unfortunately, one of the places the test links to is File::Spec::rootdir().

As a result, when the test FAILS it will recursively delete the root directory.

Autsch! So be careful with tests ;-) More here.

Apparently it's a known problem if you use IMAP and Mail.app with GPGMail. From the GPGMail Mailing list:

I use the latest version of GPGMail with Apple Mail 2.1.1 on 10.4.8 Intel. I have noticed that if I use GPGMail with the options "Authenticate messages automatically" and "Decrypt messages automatically" Mail behaves strange at marking messages on an IMAP- account read/unread. About every second mail that I have read but left in it's folder appears as unread after a short time and after opening another IMAP-folder.

Then don't do that. :-)

Seriously, it's a know bug. The work around is to make sure that the "Only if unread" checkboxes are left NOT checked.

This has annoyed the hell out of me ever since I reinstalled Tiger onto my MacBook Pro after my disk died and got replaced in September. Nice to know there is a workaround.

Don't you just hate it?

Although you have turned off the "Lower display birghtness…" setting for the power adapter in the Energy Savings panel it just gets ignored. Some searching on the Apple Knowledge Base turns up this Article wich basically states: "We know it is a problem, but we did not care to fix it."

Here is a simple script you can run to stop you display from misbehaving:

[code lang="shell-unix-generic"] sudo pmset -c halfdim 1 sudo pmset -c halfdim 0 [/code]

It turns out, that turning the setting off and on again fixes the issue (at least till the next time you disconnect the power supply or put your mac to sleep.

I'm using the latest beta of Adium and there is a huge bug there. It spawns Threads like there is no tomorrow.

But see for yourself:

1.1 Gigabytes of memory in over 1.169 (Java-)threads. Something is very wrong!

Update: If you are experiencing this Problem. Delete your preferences and start over with entering your account details.

That solved the problem for me.

"[…] Sei der schon von Crimeware Gangs ausgenutzten Lücke im DirectAnimation-Control schlagen die Redmonder in einem Fehlerbericht vor, das entsprechende Kill-Bit zu setzen, um es mangels verfügbarem Patch zu deaktivieren […]"
heise Security

Über einen neuen – mal wieder Katasrophalen – Browserbug im Internet Explorer. Man beachte die Phrase Crimeware Gangs. So weit sind wir schon bei der Internetsicherheit das es Crimeware gibt. Interessanter Terminus, mal sehen ob er sich durchsetzen wird...