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anacron

I dunno why I hadn't thought of this earlier, given that it does a fine job on my now occasionally-powered-up Debian desktop box at home, but there's a nicely packaged-up Mac OS X installer for anacron. It's the perfect thing to have on a laptop, and saves you having to remember to run stuff like MacJanitor to rotate your syslogs and update the locate database. I just hope I remember to reinstall it after I upgrade to 10.3 - the problem with these kinds of utilities is that they work so well, you completely forget about them.

* 21:33 * geek