A laptop reliability study conducted by Squaretrade reveals most reliable laptop manufactures. The sample size was from over 30,000 devices over a 3 year lifetime. No big surprises here as the cheaper bargain laptops and netbooks round out the highest failure rates and the more expensive systems last longer. The linked PDF is full of pretty graphs which is always a win.
Of personal importance is my current laptop manufacturer of choice the Macbook Pro’s ranking in the study.
[via Engadget]
OS X
I recently stumbled upon this website (OpenSourceMac.org) which is a clean list of useful open source software that has been written or ported over to Apple OS X. This is very handy to email to your friend which you recently converted to Apple 
OS X
Do you only use unix once in a blue moon, need to setup crontab and can’t quite remember the order? (Without peeking at the image on the left)
Try out this handy cron job crib sheet which you can paste directly into your crontab as a reference each time you make a scheduled job change.
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FreeBSD, How To, Linux, OS X, Scripts
crib sheet, cron, cron job, crontab, easy
Since a lot of my friends have been “converting” over to Apple machines, they often ask about programs I have running that they don’t recognize. Here’s a (fully linked) partial list of applications I use daily either at work or when at home:
Now I know I said free software, but I had to include the following paid software I couldn’t live without:
Update: Want more? Here’s one list and another list.
What did I miss? Comments.
Internet, OS X
Apple, Free Software, Mac, OS X
