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[mdlbear]

Had dinner at a local restaurant called "Red Robin" - obviously a chain. The clam strips looked good, but more breading than clam. I'll try someplace else tomorrow.

The hotel advertises free wireless, but I wasn't able to connect either in my room or in the lobby. Apparently on different access points; I'll try again later.

Stupid goddamned Mac crashed on me! I thought OSX wasn't supposed to do that! Fortunately, LJ saves drafts! I'm not complaining.

Anybody know how to set up groups on this stupid thing? On a real unix I'd just add a line to /etc/group, but it has a comment saying that it's not used. Something called lookupd is, but there's no /etc/lookupd/ (mentioned in the man page for lookupd). Foo.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Groups on a Mac? Gotta be in the system GUI. If you can't find it there I'll ask my old boss who has a Mac Mini for a desktop box.

[mdlbear]

That's what I would have thought, but if it's under "user accounts" in the control panel, I haven't found it.

What I'm trying to do, of course, is arrange it so that my two alter egos, steve (work) and mdlbear (home) can edit some of the same files.

[roaringmouse.livejournal.com]

There is a Red Robin near Tanforan Mall in San Mateo. The restaurant is very heavy handed with the salt.

[mdlbear]

Didn't notice a whole lot of salt, but it's also possible that I've sweated out enough of it that I needed the boost. We were gobbling potato chips (admittedly the low salt variety) over the weekend, having discovered that they have more potassium than banannas.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

oh, it's in "netinfo" I think; the MacOS version of NIS. Look in the Utilties directory.

Hey! you're staying in Portland. You're over in Lloyd Center, aren't you? Want to meet for cheap sushi or whatever? E-mail me; if you want to get me during the day, email my phone at my LJ user name at tmomail.net.

[mdlbear]

I'm in the Red Lion next to the convention center, not the (newer?) one in Lloyd Center.

See you for sushi this evening!

[callibr8]

tell me what you (and/or several of your geek cohorts) want to eat, and i'll try to make some recommendations. there are LOTS of good places nearby, if not within walking distance, easily accesible via bus or light rail. email anytime tomorrow, or phone the cell: 206-902-6802.

Frex: intersect the #12 bus and ride it east on Sandy and there are a bunch of nifty eateries in the Hollywood District (near NE 42nd), and several Viet/Thai places farther out, around 56th or so. There are also many great eateries in Old Town, just across the river via light rail (and in the free ride zone, to boot!). Also, the Lloyd Center Food Court has a good selection of places: Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Cajun, several of the standard American fast-food options, and a good 50's style burger joint (whose name I forget).

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I found a shareware program called Version Tracker that looks like it does what you want.

[mdlbear]

Well, version tracker has a link to the app, and it doesn't seem to have been tested on an Intel mac. It irks me that Apple doesn't provide an affordance for such a basic piece of Unix functionality.