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Took me a while to figure out what went wrong.
With the new Firefox (v3) and the wordpress update, I was no longer able to see my Wordpress stats on my dashboard.
Every (Wordpress) login attempt, to see the stats, resulted in… Well nothing. I just kept getting back to the login page. No error.
Actually, I have “third-party cookies disabled” on all my browsers; I don’t like to have cookies from sites I do not visit. And this was the cause of the problem.
Today I had to reinstall Bootcamp, and thus create a new Windows partition.
Trying the Bootcamp setup wizard, I got the same error as I had before - “Your disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved”.
I tried to Zero-Out-Data, overwriting all deleted data on the disk with 0’s. Yet this did not seem to solve the problem.
After deleting some big files, like my heroes & 24 episodes, I tried again. Still nothing.
Here’s a list of all World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King installers:
The download is 2.04Gb (on a Mac), I haven’t started the download on a Windows yet.
And yes, you will still need a beta invitation before being able to login!
You’ll find me under Tuinslak or Isazi on the EU beta realm.
As for the character copy, it was done within 10 minutes. Just 5 hours left on the download. :(
I never really used bookmarks, but a few days ago, I decided it was time for me, to organise myself a bit more, and get some bookmark application. I decided to give del.icio.us a try.
While surfing delicious, I came upon Wordle, a site that generates a tag/word cloud. Here is what my delicious tags look like at the moment.
Helene’s new Vista pc seemed to be working fine, except for Ventrilo 2.1 (the free and, well, illegal version).
It managed to connect, but no sound was coming out of it. Not when someone was talking, and not when there was a status message (like a join/connect/…).
I tried every out- and input device in “Setup”. I deleted the config, reinstalled, … Nothing seemed to work. I even checked if Vista wasn’t muting it, and it wasn’t. ;)
My own simple rsync backup ‘script’.
You’ll need a rsync server, something to backup, and ssh-agent running to ease the process (or, fill in your password each time).
Add the following lines (using a terminal text editor) to a text file (".rsync" for example, hidden files under Unix-like systems), and chmod +x $file.
rsync --archive -uv --exclude-from=/home/you/.rsync_exclude \
--rsh="ssh -p 222" --delete --stats --progress /Users/you/Documents/ \
you@remost.host.com:/home/you/remote-backup-directory
This will upload any files in /Users/you/Documents to /home/you/remote-backup-directory.
When playing with KisMAC, I noticed something weird in my /var/log/system.log;
$date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd$pid) posix_spawnp("/usr/sbin/tuncfg", ...):
No such file or directory
$date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd$pid) Exited with exit code: 1
$date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
tun is (trying) to restart every 10 (!) seconds. I tried updating Hamachi’s tun/tap drivers, without any success. It kept restarting the process every 10 seconds.
After a bit of Googling, it seemed to be a known problem. So I decided to uninstall Hamachi & the tun/tap drivers.
Yes, it’s here, finally!
A 355 Mb patch, downloaded over poor UMTS/3G at school and in the train… Took a while, but it’s finally installed.
Some nice few features, like the fact you can now remove the semi-transparent effect on the menu bar (makes it nicer). They also added some nice stacks enhancements.
A Time Machine icon is added in the menu bar too, just too bad you can’t make it just pop-up when it is actually backing up. I like keeping my menu bar clean. ;)
EyeTV is a cool application that let’s you watch TV on your Mac. I happen to have the “lite” version, because it was significantly cheaper than the other version.
The cool thing is, you can easily record films or TV episodes with it, but with this version, there is no way to export it to a iMovie project, or to play the recording in a QuickTime based application.
When recording, it creates a folder “Live Recording - $date $time.eyetv”. And when double clicking it, it will open EyeTV.