I’ve finally found a drive that PartedMagic can’t handle, but fortunately I still have a friend in dd. Sounds like a trailer for an episode of Dexter’s Laboratory. UPDATE: Even better, use an old Knoppix CD!
Saturday 13th March 2010
Monday 08th March 2010
Thursday 04th March 2010
I tried to extract a ZIP file I was send this afternoon and got the following error with unzip…
Monday 01st March 2010
Ever since August 2008 when I made the switch, TweetDeck has been Twitter for me. For people following hundreds of fascinating people categorised into lists (formerly TweetDeck groups) there’s absolutely no better ways to use it, even if it does run on Adobe Air. Problem is, no matter what Mac I’m using it always "remembers" those red dotted lines denoting bad spelling.
Perhaps it’s just poking fun at the fact I make sppelling mistakes.
Thursday 18th February 2010
I didn’t have this much trouble burning FreeBSD 8.0. Its interesting it’s not afraid to burn a CD with a daemon logo, but slap a blue hat on a guy and suddenly it freaks out. I suppose though it’s an improvement that it’s not telling me to talk to myself!
Tuesday 09th February 2010
Some more of SegPub’s legendary reliability from earlier this evening. I suppose it’d been a whole month since my last outage ;).
Running the ./configure script from the latest nano tarball on a virgin Snow Leopard machine (my dad’s) I keep running into a problem with UTF-8 support.
Using ncurses as the curses library
checking for use_default_colors in -lncurses… yes
configure: error:UTF-8 support was requested, but insufficient UTF-8 support was detected in your curses and/or C libraries. Please verify that your slang was built with UTF-8 support or your curses was built with wide character support, and that your C library was built with wide character support.
I’ve built the latest ncurses and slang libraries from MacPorts and have confirmed they were built with UTF-8 support. Only thing I can think of is it’s using the outdated ncurses from the system instead of MacPorts, but other ports such as Midnight Commander are using it. Will keep digging.
For what it’s worth, it builds just fine without UTF-8, but it’s a feature I’d rather have.
Tuesday 02nd February 2010
Google didn’t seem to like me today. Firstly Google Reader gave me this blank page instead of my usual cheery Unread Items (100,000,000+) message, then less than an hour later I tried to view a YouTube video and was presented with this delightful error!
I never did have that green tea I promised myself a few days ago. I blame that.
Sunday 24th January 2010
I’ve had my venerable MacBook Pro since 2006 and as such I’ve gone through several batteries. Up until yesterday this three month old unit could hold several hours of charge even with the screen at a reasonable brightness and WiFi enabled, but all of a sudden I can’t get more than an hour and OS X is reporting the unit needs servicing.
Three questions: How could this have happened? Do Apple batteries have warranties you reckon? Is the Bird still The Word?
Friday 04th December 2009
Damn straight Chanandler Bing, I didn’t want that page I wanted Google! Wonder if any data got Sidekicked?
To be fair Gmail was out again a few months ago too, so it’s just further proof that all this reliance on cloud computing whatnot is a problem.
