// NOT DEAD YET

I’ve completed a course in Objective-C and iOS, and have fallen-in-like with Xcode.

Tomorrow is NSCoder Night at Orchard Valley Coffee.

Have lots of questions.

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Computer:~ GG5$ cd /volumes
Computer:volumes GG5$ lsl
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root admin 204 Dec 19 07:24 ./
drwxrwxr-t 48 root admin 1700 Dec 5 22:17 ../
d--x--x--x+ 3 root admin 102 Dec 14 23:09 Gigabyte/
drwxr-xrwx 25 GG5 GG5 918 May 10 2012 Gigabyte 1/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Dec 19 06:47 Lemon@ -> /

Computer:volumes GG5$ umount gigabyte
umount: gigabyte: not currently mounted
Computer:volumes GG5$ mount gigabyte
mount: gigabyte: unknown special file or file system.

This is a *ghost drive* generated by unknow forces in Mac OS X. Because the real volume has been renamed (a suffix was added) access to it by automated programs is prevented. The solution is to delete the ghost drive.

Dealing with Mac OS X Volume Suffixes

gog cal

Where’d the name come from?

Jef Raskin wrote The Book of Macintosh, envisioning a simple, personal appliance for $1000 that a random family, as likely as not, would own.

Other Blogs We Read

• Apple News - CNET
• Arstechnica – Infinite Loop
• Daring Fireball – by John Gruber
• Google-LatLong - on Blogspot
• MacNews - Home / Industry Dashboard
• Mac OS X Hints - by MacWorld
• MacDevCenter - by O’Reilly
• MacNN - News Network
• MacUpdate - Michigan Company
• Office For Mac - by Microsoft Business Unit
• Surfin’ Safari - WebKit
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog - TUAW
• TidBITS - by Adam C. Engst

Leopard Warning!

Beware of switching from Tiger to Leopard.

All your Classic applications will become useless.  You won’t be able to open some of your old documents!

And, you’ll find a sidebar showing up in every finder window.  The option for hiding it permanently (along with the tool bar) appears to be working now, but you will have to turn it off on a window by window basis, by clicking the little button in the upper right of the window.

AutoIndex Permission

I was experimenting with PHP and MySQL, and wanted my localhost server to automatically list the contents of my home directory as I added new subdirectories.

When I removed the index.html and index.php files and opened the browser to that directory, it didn’t work! It gave “Permission denied: Can’t open directory”.

I looked into httpd.conf, and added Option Indexes right at the top, restarted Apache, but that made no difference.

I changed AllowOveride None to AllowOveride All, and put the commands into a .httpaccess file into the home directory, and still no change (entering garbage into .httpaccess did give an Invalid Command error, so I knew .httpaccess was being read).

In Terminal, I saw that all the permissions for my home directory were set except “read for other”:

drwxrwx-wx 32 GG GG 1088 Jan 9 22:52 Sites/

To solve the problem:

chmod +r Sites

That did it! Now I have server-generated directory listings.

Performa 6400 Trouble

It only boots up to where it shows the date in the upper right, then locks the cursor.

I’ve tried booting from CDs with systems 7.6.1, 8.5, 9.1, and every boot key combination including zap pram, with same results.

Sometimes the boot volume will show in the upper right, including the first partition of the internal hard drive.

Sometimes Disk First Aid runs and says it’s fixed but still, just a blank screen, maybe one icon, the time, and a frozen cursor.

Must be some chip burned out but I keep wondering if it’s software planned obsolescence. The machine is dated 10/23/96! Hate to give it up. I use it for SCSI Drivers and its Audio-Visual capabilities.

Error code 0x8002006D

Had a problem burning CDs (DVDs burned fine). A search online uncovered many people with the same problem, plus a variety of suggested solutions.

What I did was give my PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-117D device a blast of pressurized air from The Blaster Pressurized Air Duster through the open door AND replaced my Fujifilm CD-R blanks with Maxell CD-R.

Maxell works for me at the slower burn speed, but still problematic.  The PC at Long’s couldn’t read it at all.

So, I bought some Sony blanks and went through the whole process again, burning some jpegs to get printed at Long’s.  So far, so good.

iCal suddenly read-only!

Don’t know why…