Archive for September, 2006

LETTER: Powell Says Bush Plan To OK Torture “Would Put Troops At Risk”

September 15th, 2006

ThinkProgress has the actual letter. “The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk.”
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VIDEO: Snow Repeats LIE That Saddam Had A Relationship With Zarqawi

September 12th, 2006

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow insisted Saddam that had a “relationship” because Zarqawi was in the country. Snow refused to “go into the vagaries of the Senate report.”
This is the equivalent of saying that the United States government had a “relationship” with unibomber Ted Kaczynski because he was “operating” in the US.
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zcat broken on Mac OS X: Feature or bug?

September 11th, 2006

Apparently on Mac OS X 10.4.7 (and earlier), the zcat command doesn’t work. zcat is a very useful util to read through gzip-archived system logs and usually works by just typing zcat /path/to/log.gz
However, it appears to be broken on the Mac. For example, this is actual output:
[user@host:~] zcat /var/log/system.log.0.gz
zcat: /var/log/system.log.0.gz.Z: No such file or directory
[user@host:~] [...]

 
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