TimeMachine + new motherboard

June 30th, 2009

Quick hint: You get a new motherboard (Apple calls it logic board) you might needs to prune the TimeMachine files. The sparse bundle on the TimeMachine is named “machine_mac-address”. New motherboard = new ethernet card = new MAC address.

I kept running out of disk space on my TimeMachine and when I looked into why it’s because I had my old sparse bundle out.

I’m bad, but this is funny!

June 27th, 2009

This was linked on my guild forums. Which was re-linked to this “Anime” version. It’s pretty funny.

See what happens when your mom cancels your wow account.

Beginners luck? Epic fail on Thekal solo run

June 27th, 2009

My first solo attempt on Thekal took a really long time. I’m embarrassed to admit how long it took me. But I downed him. No tiger mount but that’s ok.

Tried again tonight and I could not kill him. I tried the same strategy, same shot rotation, same mend pet, same everything. Beginners luck?

How frustrating!

Microsoft Windows XP: Open File Security Warning - Unknown Publisher

June 25th, 2009

Setup a samba server just like I normally do. Configured a windows xp professional install to authenticate with the samba server. All pretty routine. But I suddenly was faced with this lovely error message:

avg8admin.igi.com-3.jpg

WTF! Lots of google and time. Realized what is different is this windows system had IE8 on it.

Off to to

Control Panel->Internet Options->Security->Local intranet
Click Sites
Uncheck Automatically detect intranet network
Check Include all network paths (UNCs)
Click Advanced

Add your samba server to the “Add this website to the zone:”

samba.domain.com

Click Add.
Click Close.
Click OK.

Funny netrek spam!

June 23rd, 2009

Got this spam email to the owner of the netrek-development mailing list. I got a pretty good laugh.

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Adium and Yahoo problems?

June 18th, 2009

Running Adium 1.4b6 and I cannot log into Yahoo. Doing some research here is what I found.

Discussion on the user forums.

Some say log into yahoo mail, answer additional security questions, then it works.

Another solution, use proxy at http://meebo.com

More info here at the pidgin FAQ.

Another work-around is replacing the default login server with 66.163.181.166.

Preferences->Accounts
Click Yahoo account.
Click Edit.
Click Options.

Change login Server to cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com, leave port 5050, that fixed my problem.

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Warped battery?

June 16th, 2009

Took my laptop out of its bag and set it on the desk and it was lopsided. WTF! Looked at the battery and it’s warped! Here is a video snippet of the problem.

Bummer!

World of Logs

June 12th, 2009

Cool new WoW combat parsing site. World of Logs. Having a problem with their reports.

I’m looking at this report. I get a really cool and detailed windows below the graphs as the page loads, then it just disappears.

Happens in Firefox and Safari. They doing something specific to IE?

You can see what I’m talking about in this Screen Cast.

Epic failure on my patch-fu!

June 12th, 2009

I had an epic failure and did not darcs add the cmake build files. “Worse” James’ osx merge branch is based of trunk and had all the deprecations of PING, RCD, RSA, so I had to spend some time merging branches.

res-rsa-2.9.3 released

June 11th, 2009

Worked with Dave to get res-rsa-2.9.3 released. Good stuff.