really interesting article outlining the core issues surrounding managers’ scheduling of meetings from a maker’s perspective, with some ideas towards a solution.
“We know we have to have some number of meetings. All we ask from those on the manager’s schedule is that they understand the cost.”

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use any editor of your choosing to modify crontab…  at your command prompt (assuming you are root), type:
EDITOR=nano
export EDITOR
now, when you crontab -e that editor (in this case, nano) will be used instead of vi. what a relief!

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first, edit your web server’s httpd.conf (for example, /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf) and add a VirtualHost with some name other than “localhost” (we do this because windows may reserve localhost for some of its services).
NameVirtualHost yourhostname:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourhostname
DocumentRoot “/your/directory/here”
</VirtualHost>
edit leopard’s “hosts” file:
sudo nano -w /etc/hosts
and append your new host name to the existing line for localhost:
127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname
now, […]

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throw open Terminal.  type two separate commands:
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -int 64
killall Dock
where you can set the desired icon size to whatever you want (rather than 64). Dock will relaunch with the icons shown in your exact desired size. (if you’re like me, being exact is just what you do.)

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