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In the 6th Essex race the Salem News editorialized: “… Parisella has certainly earned another two-year term…” Apparently the editors have not been reading the excellent reporting of Paul Leighton who detailed the conflict of interest complaint filed against Parisella and his subsequent quitting of his job. And though that weighs on my mind, I’m…
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This is a public request for Charlie Baker or Martha Coakley to show real leadership by stepping up and demanding that
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I’m proud of Massachusetts today.Last night on the debate on WBZ all 5 candidates for governor were featured, including 3 in depende
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I’ve used the login name “fishdan” since 1996 — I own it about everywhere it’s worth having. Because I’m old, my primary usage is via yahoo, but I’m also fishdan@gmail, It’s my primary interface to all things google, including my google+ account and the account I sync my android phone with. Because I’m a good…
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Just upgraded to windows 8, and I’m not happy about a lot of it, but I kept digging to see if the answers I wanted are perhaps in there somewhere. Most particularly I was very frustrated that I could not see the progress of windows update as it ran from the app. It took me…
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We’ve all encountered the diehards on the web. They’re never wrong, they will post link upon upon link
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We have changed ourselves as a country and as a people when we think that the social safety net MUST come from government. When my grandparents came to Lynn in 1904 they came to a community that took them in and shared responsibility for them. If a kid was misbehaving, the first adult in the…
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After the Command-S startup, type the following on the command prompts, allowing time for each to do its thing: /sbin/fsck -y<return> /sbin/mount -uw /<return> /sbin/autodiskmount -va<return> launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.diskarbitrationd.plist /usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions /
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I have a series of 6 machines that I need to occasionally deploy the same file to in exactly the same place. I got tired of it being such a pain so I wrote this little script I call mcp.sh It’s certainly easy enough for a shell script master to do this, but for me?…
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So we got a new Mac Book Pro in the house, and it came without an installation disk. That’s weird, but so be it. So then I wanted to install bootcamp on the mac. When you run through Bootcamp Assistant it gives you a chance to download the drivers you’ll need for windows if your…