Jim’s Junk Drawer

I said that in a meeting today and thought it was quite pithy. I’m posting it here in case some future historian ever wants to compile a collection of my quotes.

Now I have a big glob of electronic keys, and if I lose it I will be liable for double the cost. Grrr.

Did your weather station stop working with OS X Lion? You might need to update this little devil:
USB to UART Bridge VCP Driver

Here’s a fix from user julienfromcugy on Apple’s support site. Worked for me:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1306.

So basically what I did to solve the problem is:
1) close iTunes
2) from the finder, right click iphoto library and choose “Show package contens”
3) delete the folder iPod phtoto Cache
4) restart iTunes
5) in photo tab choose to synch foto from a folder
6) in photo tab choose to synch photo from iphoto
7) choose the events, etc…
apply

I set up a weather station for a friend for his cabin near Yellowstone using a MacBook Air as the server. A challenge was that the station needs to run unattended through the winter, so has to be able to handle power outages. For desktop macs, there is a system preference to reboot on power failure, but that option is not present for laptops. Here’s the solution:

Use the ‘pmset’ terminal command to turn on the “acwake” switch. This way if the power is out long enough for the computer to hibernate, it will wake as soon as the AC is restored.

sudo pmset acwake 1

You can use ‘pmset -g’ command to check that acwake is now set to ’1′.

The new Skype 5 sucks. Here’s the link for the 2.8 version (last prior to 5): Skype 2.8 for Mac

More at: http://help.krypt.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=108

This is just a test post to see if the automated feed I have set up for the Diamond XX website is getting updated.

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OS X has an alternate, and I think better, menu format for dock folders. With the alternate menus you have bigger icons, a cleaner look, better scrolling for long lists, and you can click into nested folders right in the menu.

To enable the alternate view, open Terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -boolean YES; killall Dock

If you find you don’t like these changes, type the command again, replacing YES with NO.

Source: maclife.com