Often tied in with other tech or code posts; Apple/Mac/iOS speculations, hacks, and other errata.
Recent experimenting with launchd led us to today’s (failed) experiment in the on-going “SyncTunes” project. (See previous references here and here.) Short version: have tunesync-in.sh activate via launchd when a user logged in, copying a master $ituneslib file over to $userlib. Then, while the user was logged in and playing songs through iTunes, tunesync-out.sh would […]
Trouble sleeping last night. Dreams that aren’t worth posting here because all they really seem to be are chilling previews of some stuff scheduled for Friday. So instead I jumped out of bed and decided to try and cross off one of the things on my to do list. AFP548 had a great article that […]
KetelOne’s Revenge continues… Picking up where we left off… replacement hard drive arrived today removed the bad drive (once again, watch out for that “HD HEAT” cable on the side – – delicate little wire!) installed the new drive booted to the blinking “?” folder (as expected, since there’s no OS on the drive yet) […]
So to follow up on today’s earlier post, there was no reviving Malkovich. It did not boot up on its own after 24 hours of cooling off. So I thought/hoped that maybe if I re-seated the SATA drive connectors that we would at least get one final access on this drive. Wrong again. Got inside […]
Last night’s hard drive failure really has me bummed out. Way to kick in the post-vacation blues… It could definitely “be worse” – – I could have nothing backed up. I could have deleted the gargantuan .tar back-up of the iTunes library. KetelOne could have gone down at the same time. But as it stands, […]
Return from vacation to find that Malkovich decides to tank again. So soon. AppleCare’s diagnosis? BAD HARD DRIVE. So, like last time…: Had Malkovich shut down for the days we were on vacation. Get home, fire it up. Log in. Let everything come up. Plug in the camera to start downloading the pics from our […]
[18:34:40 ~] rob@Malkovich $ tar -czf $BACKUPS/iTunesLib.tar $SHARED/Music tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names [13:11:50 ~] rob@Malkovich $ du $BACKUPS/iTunesLib.tar 89272296 iTunesLib.tar
Because unpacking tar’s on Windows makes baby Jesus cry. TUAW’s Victor Agreda & some “punk kids” install os x86 on a Dell machine. Albeit, it isn’t exactly a wonderland. currently playing: Lee Burridge “NuBreed 005” mix (disc one)
Interesting(?) piece from creativebits presenting the “Desk” concept as a replacement for/amalgamation of the Finder & Desktop concepts. The problems I had with it are that it’s not readily apparent “out-of-the-box” what it is or what it’s for. First I just eyed the graphic like “WTF is this?” Then I watched the video. And I […]
Get started w/ launchd rather than cron Malkovich to death… Figure out some other way to automate exports from iCal to phpCal since there more/less isn’t an ics file to copy w/ a shell script any more and AppleScript support for iCal’s export feature is confusing and weak at best… currently playing: Amon Tobin “Reanimator”