Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
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 […]
After the other night I kind of wanted to give up… But the Malkovich restoration continues. I’ve managed to neglect DHL’ing the bunk hard drive back but soon enough. I guess I was holding out for the remote possibility I’d get stuff off of it. Not so much. Anyways…: …that was successful. But then I […]
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)
Via Smart Mobs – there’s a petition going around to get Google to stop posting ads for essay writing services. The ethics of this are a touch complicated, no? On the one hand you have the argument that this undermines education. Sure, OK. I’ll buy that. But where’s the free market? Is this the same […]