February 25, 2009
Not to be too mean spirited, because someone over at HighScalability.com (which is one of my favorite tech blogs) is obviously having a hard day, but the irony was too rich to pass up:
The MySQL error was: User highscal_admin already has more than ‘max_user_connections’ active connections.
February 23, 2009
So I am back beating my head against WinXP, arg… the Pd WindowsXP build machine died and I can’t get the disk to do anything but click. So I am actually running a Windows install… ug. I just got Cygwin installed and am setting up my old environment, making my Cygwin HOME dir use my Windows %UserProfile%. And yes, I still use tcsh… when running tcsh, I get if: Expression Syntax. and it doesn’t finish loading its rc files.
For some reason, this bug has existed for years, and hasn’t been fixed. I guess I am the only one making my Windows home dir the same as my Cygwin home dir. Perhaps I expect too much from Cygwin+Windows.
It turns out that it is just a case of missing quotes in /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh. At line 44, if ( -r $f ) then should be if ( -r "$f" ) then and voila! it works.
February 22, 2009
I rebuilt a machine from scratch that had a Final Cut Pro license on it, but that machine no longer needed Final Cut, but really only Quicktime Pro. Too bad VLC doesn’t have simple editing like QuickTime Pro. I looked into ffmpeg/mencoder, and I think that I probably wouldn’t remember the command line flags for it. I found the file that has the registration in it so that QuickTime Pro works, its in /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Final Cut Studio System ID.
Perhaps I should add Kino to Fink so that would be easy to install on Mac OS X.
February 1, 2009
I’ve recently realized that making it too easy to send email is a bad thing. For the longest time, I thought that any mail program that didn’t have a key shortcut for sending an email was broken. Now I have seen the error of my ways. I’ve gotten in the habit of using Apple Mail in Offline mode so that it doesn’t send the emails until I return to Online mode. Apple Mail always tries to second guess me on this, which is a constant agravation, and then came the biggest affront: the Outbox disappeared comletely! ARG! Normally, when you are in Offline mode and you send email, the Outbox shows up and will stay there until the email is sent. That is nice, and useful. But recently, for whatever reason, the Outbox never came out anymore. What a pain… go after some searching around and reading of the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist , I found this forum thread to set DisplayInThreadedMode to no in order to permanently hide the Outbox. It turns out mine was set to no already. I switched it to yes and voila! I had a reappearing Outbox again! Yee haw! Now WTF does “Threaded Mode” have to do with the visibility of the Outbox?
