The latest episode of Powerloafing features a very funny visit by the President.

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Fun. The Simpsons Opening recreated with live actors. Click the triangle play icon in the middle of the video to watch.

Also check out a new “remix” trailer for The Shining that portrays the movie as a heart-warming comedy. How many times have you gone to a movie based on the trailer only to find it really misrepresented? (click the triangle play icon under the video to start)

Your new commercial talking about freeing up Intel processors really makes me mad. I do way more interesting things with my intel processors than purchasing music from iTunes and transferring it to my ipod. I think their life inside my computers is much more interesting than anything ever done by the average Mac user.

Macs have always been underpowered and the move to intel is, yet again, another bad processor move. Intel is stuck. They can’t put more power to the chips because they can’t keep the temperature under control.

Don’t get me wrong. I am a long-time intel bigot. My home PC is built with all-intel - motherboard, chipset, processor, network card, sound card - the works. Ask my friends who have been on the AMD bandwagon for a while how I always blame any problem they have on their non-intel proc.

But Intel made a bad choice at a fork in the processor road a few years ago with the Pentium 4 footprint. A dual-proc P4 is a little hard to come by because they elected not to lay things out in a way that makes it easy to do so. Intel’s dual-core offering isn’t 100% dual core…its dual processing behind a single bus.

So, alas, I must admit that AMD has become the forerunner. I saw the first sign of this when Intel had to license some 64bit tech from AMD. Now that we are entering the “dual core” age, guess who’s leading?

I’m now running AMD at work (after actually trying a mac), and soon the home PC - a monument to intel, will be replaced with an AMD/nvidia box.

I’m also excited about the new IBM chip, but I don’t see it making it into any computers other than IBM’s unfortunately overpriced server line.

This error message keeps popping up in the server logs:

Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (user) Error: Input/output error Check for proper operation and configuration of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd)

Typing it into Google reveals many other people with the problem. Then there is the Courier FAQ, which is less than helpful:

Q: Repeated messages in syslog: “Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (user) Error: Input/output error Check for proper operation and configuration of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd).” How can I solve it?

This means that Courier was compiled with File Alteration Monitor (FAM), but FAM is not running, or is not configured. If you have FAM installed you can add it to a runlevel and start it. Some FAM configuration use portmapper, so you will need to have portmap running also. You can also see “man 8 imapd” for more information.

But thankfully, one kind soul has posted the real answer. THANK YOU!

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