Buh-Bye Facebook
I hated myspace and you know what? I’m sick of facebook too. I dunno, maybe I’m just a cranky IT guy but I find it to be distracting and a huge time sink with no value to me. I have my own websites, plural… tell me why I need facebook again? Oh yes, “social networking”, online poker, pokes, and all of those “friends” who don’t even know my phone number. I’ll pass.
So with several new notifications of “people I may know” waiting for me I deactivated my account today.
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iTunes hang on connect problem
I have a Mac laptop that I take between two networks. One network is an open one at my home and the other is a corporate network with proxy servers. Specifically we use a pac file for automatic proxy configuration. For normal web stuff there’s nothing special that needs to happen – if I’m on the corporate network the pac file is found and the proxy servers are connected to. If I’m home there is no pac file to be had and I directly connect to the web.
iTunes however isn’t all that bright it seems. It will hang trying to find the pac file. The fix is to not use a pac file when you’re on a network where it won’t be found. Locations make that a lot easier but being lazy about just leaving the pac file settings alone will bite ya.
Hope that helps someone – it took me a while to figure out what was going on. 
