Sunday, May 31, 2009
Chatted with Tina on the phone. She wanted to know what ubuntu meant. Stretches. Weight training: side-lying leg lift variation. Downloaded and installed Smultron for home. Keyboard shortcut tip: in OS X Finder if you somehow made the list view for an entire filesystem open all branches, you can quickly and easily close them all with this keyboard shortcut sequence: Command+A (select all), Option+LeftArrow (collapse all branches). My favorite breakfast at home with Patrick. Sent the following problem report to boxee.tv today: "I think I have discovered a problem with your password management. If you create a new account using password ;6h9a[>$B=cc}K it is accepted but when you later attempt to log in using the same password, you cannot: 'login failed'. In other words, your password validation code is stricter than your password creation code in some way. I have worked around this problem by using a different password, but in the interest of making Boxee better I am letting you know what I discovered. It is consistently reproducible. It is not clearly a critical problem of any kind." Began editing m3u playlist files. We had a lot of playlists from when we used Winamp and Windows and they don't work on the Mac because Windows uses backslashes and Mac uses forward slashes in the filename paths. However, I found that if I open them in a plain text editor and change all the backslashes to forward slashes the playlist files seem to load properly in VLC. Some of our music files have been moved around or deleted and those will require manual resolution. Perhaps I can put together a script which will do the slash conversion for all the files at once. Will investigate later. Solution to "SHTML Wrapper - 500 Server Error" when using Bluehost: ensure that all your folders are chmodded to 755 and all your files are chmodded to 644. (I had 775 and 664.) Spent a few minutes wondering why rsync wasn't properly deleting an empty cgi-bin folder and realized that Bluehost is recreating the folder a few seconds after I delete it. Manually set spotlight to index the new Music hard drive: sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Music. psychobauble came over and I helped him with some web stuff. Afterwards we tried to play Fright of the Bumblebees but it caused Vista to slow down to a crawl and eventually the game crashed. I restarted Vista, but it crashed again and we gave up trying to play it. psychobauble leaves. Later I was adding some images to a compressed folder using the Send To feature in Vista and Windows Vista failed with a BSOD. I wasn't fast enough with my camera to get a photo of it. Vista successfully restarts. I installed WinZip and successfully used that instead. Uploaded photos, processed video. Dinner at home with Patrick: saucy pork chops, rice pilaf, peas. Watched Netflix instant watch with Patrick: 10 minutes of Supercop (didn't like it), 10 minutes of Porky's (didn't like it), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (loved it). Uploaded video.