My experience with SBC Yahoo Dial is awful. They overbilled by mom's account by over $1,000 in two months time. For some reason, they had her local number she was dialing (and had been using for over a year) as a “roaming” call. Hmmmmmmm. After 30 minutes on the phone, they finally said, “Oops!” and…

235,000 Software Engineers Can't Be Wrong, Right? [Slashdot]

OpenOffice beta for Mac OS X available: “The first Mac OS X version cut of the Open Source office suite, OpenOffice, has emerged blinking into the daylight. It's being officially announced at OSDCON today. This new version, 1.0, is a new branch, with a “boatload” of Mac-specific patches, that adds up to a 147MB download.…

Patrick Hurley, my colleague here, just started up a Radio blog from his Mac, and noticed the pages loaded really slowly. This note from UserLand explains the problem — it's an IE and Mac thing. Worth reading if you're blogging from an older Mac. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]

Richard Rybolt. “There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day] [dws.]

Upgrade offered on some retail OS X products [The Macintosh News Network] [dws.]

Apple details Mac OS X Up-To-Date program [The Macintosh News Network] [dws.]

Authored by: soob use: |& tee filename This both displays the output normally to stdout (usually your screen) and redirects a copy to the file you've given. For example, I like to keep logs of all my configures and makes for the various unix utilities and tools I install. So I'll use commands like ./configure…

New Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for OSX [Mac OS X Hints]

Redirect Terminal command output to desktop file [Mac OS X Hints]