Though I think someday I may want to try and pick up French again, I doubt I'll ever really need to read any documents in French or Afrikaans or the myriad of other languages that are installed as part of Leopard.
Download Monolingual and run it (I didn't actually install it). It saved me 3.3GBs. Be careful not to select your real language by mistake. Also, it will automatically remove Architectures that aren't what you're running. I don't know whether they're needed by apps that don't run in native intel 64bit code so I unchecked them just to be on the safe side.
OS X: March 2008 Archives
Honestly, I've been slow in adopting many of the 'social networking' sites. I didn't even have a facebook account until I started researching my current position. I'm just on the edge when it comes to my age where some of my friends use all these social networking sites but most of them don't.
This is completely off-topic, but like M. Night Shyamalan, I'll get to my original point in the end so stay with me....I recently (finally) picked up a wii by sheer luck at my local Target store. I was walking through looking for your standard home items that we all buy at places like Target when I heard over the loudspeaker: 'Would customer with Wii ticket number 79 please report to the electronics counter?'. I thought: 'What are the odds they still have any left?'. So I swiftly walked over to the electronics section only to be greeted by a security guard with one hand resting on his gun (seriously!??!). Here's how the next 30 seconds went:
Guard: "Are you here for the computer thing?" Me: "You mean the wii? Yes, I am, do they have any left?" Guard: "They have one left" Me: "I'll take it!" StockBoy: "Wow, You're lucky!"Ever since that moment, I've been a bit obsessed about how to get my hands on another Wii. It was precipitated by the fact that two of my co-workers are trying to get one as well and being the nice person that I am - much to my wife's chagrin - I want to find them one. It has proven to be difficult. I've missed online stock by sheer minutes. These elusive Wiis go on sale on sites like amazon.com and within 7-12 minutes, they're out of stock only to return days later with a similar short-period of availability. Enter: NowInStock.net/Twitter Mashup. The website NowInstock.net has an automated wii tracker page that checks about 30 sites for Wii availability. It also keeps the history of when things have been in stock and when they've been sold out and It's fairly accurate. They do track uber-expensive bundles that go for $600 but also the standard $249 simple console. They also twitter availability from a few key sites for the standard console. So I added Twitter to my Adium contacts, and now I follow NowInStock as one of my Twitter friends and hopefully I'll be able to catch one of those $249 in stock alerts and make some friends happy. Ahhh online technology is so sweet sometimes.
