Ölbaum’s Delirium

New in the Swiss trains: a display that shows jokes for the passengers’ entertainment:

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For the records:

a guide to installing fonts for LaTeX on Mac OS X

It looks quite complete, seeming to only lack a mention to otftotfm, although I have other resources for this one.

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Here I am, indexing a couple of hundreds of PDF files in Acrobat Pro, while still being able to use my 3+-year-old (low end model) Power Mac as if it was doing nothing in the background.

And of course, it feels totally normal to me. Until I think about the people having to use Windows, that is. Then it feels normal and so damn good.

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Found on an Apple support web page:

iMac (Summer 2000): Wavy or Flickering Picture on the Screen

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Products affected

• iMac (Summer 2000)

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Note: The parenthetical product description (Summer 2000) refers to the summer of the Northern Hemisphere.

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