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Visiting the family at the farm and sitting on the end of a 1M/1M Microwave link. Normally this is ok bandwidth and adequate latency. Throw 18 laptops, couple iTouch, couple iPhones -and- a blizzard and you have little bandwidth and even worse latency!

Speedtest.net shows our lovely 1M/1M link is down to 0.33M/0.21M and 2083ms latency! Of course I had this vision of catching up on some Raid Fight videos on YouTube.

Streaming YouTube wasn’t happening. So, I needed to download YouTube videos and play them locally. Thought this would be easy, but had to jump through some hoops.

I believe saving YouTube locally breaks the ToS so take that with what it’s worth. Use your googleFU to figure it out yourself and read other people’s warning messages.

The tool I found that worked best for snarf’n the YouTube video and saving it to disk is iSkySoft’s Video Downloader for Mac. Hit the previous link for how to use it. Drop dead simple.

By default you’ll get a .flv in “~/Movies/Free iTube Resource”, now I want iTune Video, so I used HandBrake to convert the flash files.

Worked like a charm.

Funny!

The upgrade to SL on my MBP took about the same (wall clock) time as my iMac, 45m or so.

First time I ran Mail.app a database conversion took place. I have alot of email so the conversion took about 60m. And like the upgrade from 10.4 to 10.5, the upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6 “broke” GPGMail.

I’ll see if I can self-hack again and fix it. Hello Apple, please add PGP support to Mail.app!

EyeTV doesn’t work under SL either There’s a new version out there but nothing is noted in the changelog about SL compatability.

Several of my older Xcode projects had to be converted(?) (upgraded better wording?) but they all compile great and work fine. I also found on the upgrade DVD the 10.4 SDK! So, I can even build 10.4 binaries now. Nice.

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Finally got around to documenting how to build the netrek-server with cmake.

Info is both on launchpad and the netrek wiki.

To select the 64-bit kernel for the current startup disk, use the following command in Terminal:

sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture x86_64

You wants to check Whether your Mac has the 32-bit EFI or 64-bit EFI just enter the following command in Terminal.

ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi

After a fixing a “find-and-replace” error, James accepted the netrek-server-osx branch into the main repository.

Remember kids, find-and-replace is a friend but double check your work before doing a mass change

Not subscribed to CERT mailing list? You lose!

Flash exploit posting at

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-204A.html

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.

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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