Monday, February 18, 2008
Holiday. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Stretches. Discovered Gorker's solution to a problem in OS X in which folders copied from an NTFS filesystem appeared in OS X with padlocks on the folders and certain file system actions such as deletion, addition, or renaming were prevented (I think either "Operation not permitted" or "You do not have sufficient access privileges to rename the item" was the error message). Also, I saw "You can only read" right next to "Name = username (Me) | Privilege = Read & Write" which I found very confusing. Solution: Get properties on the padlocked folder, then uncheck the Locked checkbox. Close the properties window. Try your file system action again. Installed KeePassX 0.2.2 for Mac—my first time using KeePass in OS X. It appears to work—just being able to see my passwords database without having to start Fusion is like a dream come true. I think at the time I decided upon KeePass for password management there was no Mac version, but I had faith in open-source and today I feel as though it has paid off, at least in this respect. Installed RsyncX 2.1 and then realized that what I really need is Unison. Unison's website said I should install Fink, so I tried to install Fink but there's no binary for Leopard yet, so I built Fink 0.28.0 from source. I don't remember installing XCode Tools during my OS X setup, but I must have—I didn't need to install it separately. Installed Fink Commander 0.5.4. Installed Unison File Synchronizer 2.13.16-1004 (unison-nox) from source. Figured out how to make Automater scale images down to 800 pixels. It wasn't obvious to me that if I wanted to access an automator script by right-clicking a file in Finder that I needed to Save As Plug-in... within Automator. Couldn't figure out how to start the Unison GUI in Mac OS X. When I run unison -ui graphic, it simply returns the usage/syntax. Took photos of things I need to sell. For about 15 minutes today it was really sunny and hot—like 75 degrees—and then the sky became overcast and it was freezing again. Dinner at home with Patrick: pork loin, steamed broccoli, leftover risotto. Chatted with Nate on the phone. Stretches. Weight training: barbell squat, leg lift, reverse leg lift.