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It’s been a while since I last posted to my category of enjoyable flash games. Wait no longer. Here’s Bloxorz.

Bloxorz is a turn-based puzzle game. Your job is to move a 2 x 1 x 1 cuboid through 33 increasingly difficult levels that are stuffed with the usual things like triggers, bridges, and fragile floors.

Nine Inch Nails released their new album “The Slip” for free. Licensed under a creative commons licence. Various formats are available – including 320kB/s MP3s.

Dear Finder,
can you please tell me which copy operation failed?

Finder message that conceals vital information

I had multiple copy operations running in parallel and one of them failed. But which?

I had to remember the files I wanted to copy and manually check which of them had made it the target drive…

Sometimes you need access to filesystems that are not natively supported by your operating system. For example when you need to access an weirdly formatted external drive.

To integrate support for a new filesystem, you normally need special binary drivers that are loaded into your kernel. This usually involves a reboot and some security issues, as the filesystem driver runs with the same privileges as the kernel itself.

But wait. FUSE is a convenient alternative to kernel-based filesystem drivers. FUSE stands for “Filesystem in Userspace” and makes installing, using, and developing filesystems really easy.

I just read that SPAM is getting 30 today. Congratulations!

On May 3rd, 1978, about 400 mailboxes got flooded by the first unsolicited email advertisement in history! According to heise.de it is estimated that the current spam volume is about 100 billion spam mails per year. The signal to noise ratio is as low as 15%.