VoIP on iPhone. Find free Skype for iPhone on the App Store.
It works–Skype calls over WiFi–and the quality seems better than Fring or TruPhone.
Why hasn't Apple got an iPhone version of iChat yet–or Gizmo5 to give us a free SIP phone?
"Oh, no it isn't," says System Preferences.
Physically it is connected. The ethernet works fine when I try it with another laptop. But my MacBook Air has no network connection.
Not sure what causes this, but it seems to arise when moving from one network to another — work to home. Until Apple fix their bug, one workaround is as follows:
If you're lucky (it's worked for me a couple of times already) you will find that, after a short pause, the USB Ethernet n port you just created now works as normal.
If the option to create a USB Ethernet port doesn't appear, check that you have the ethernet adapter dongle plugged in. This seems to be neccessary.
If it still doesn't appear (sometimes it doesn't), restart and try again. This has always worked for me (so far).
As long-time readers of this blog will know, I have an extended wireless network. It now includes two daisy-chains and one spur: a daisy-chain on 802.11n (5GHz) with a TimeCapsule (which has internet connection from my ADSL modem/router) and two Extremes; a daisy-chain on 802.11g (2.5GHz) with older kit — two Extremes (one connected by ethernet to the remote end of the 802.11n chain) and three Expresses.
Autoconfigure was a welcome feature of the 802.11n Express. It was great — when it worked — but it was always flakey.
With the 7.4.1 firmware update my setup became completely unstable. In particular, whenever Time Machine started a backup the network would auto-reconfigure, and break. I had to use an ethernet connection direct to the Time Capsule to make a backup. I've now reverted to a manual setup of the WDS with explicit MAC numbers. All appears stable, my iPhone is back on WiFi and backup over wireless is working again.
If you're having problems with an autoconfigured wireless network, try going back to manually configured WDS. Use Airport Utility. First make a note of the Airport ID (MAC number) for each of your devices. Then, one-by-one switch from Create a Wireless Network or Extend a Wireless Network to Participate in a WDS Network. A WDS tab will appear. Under this tab you can see (and manually adjust) the autoconfigured setup. In my case I found that two Extremes were trying to act as WDS main.
As usual, be careful to update the various access points in an order that doesn't leave you unable to access some device over wireless. If you do get into that sorry state, a direct ethernet connection can be used to reconfigure the lost device.
Google Base lets you upload descriptions of goods, services, publications—or whatever—to enable the world to find your stuff.
You can do this item-by-item, using a web form, or in bulk by submitting an RSS or Atom feed as an xml file.
So far, so good ...
If you want to use extended character sets (eg. characters, ξ € я þ ø æ œ and accents, å ç ê ñ ü ) you will naturally use utf-8 or unicode encoding.
So, I set up the feed for utf-8 encoding, and uploaded the xml using Direct Upload via Google Base, Google's file upload interface ...
Once my feed was processed, Google said, Your data feed contains an invalid character for the current encoding setting.
I tried File Transfer Protocol, uploading via ftp to google.uploads.com. Google still didn't get the right encoding (I think Google was at fault here).
I tried Automatic upload via scheduling. This probably failed because my ISP's server insists on sending a content header saying it is serving everything in ascii—Google did the "right thing" and believed this travesty.
So, nothing worked: Your data feed contains an invalid character for the current encoding setting.
xsl:output to encode your feed in asciiHere is a simple xsl transform to copy an xml file and change its encoding. The important line is the attribute encoding="us-ascii", in the xsl:output element.
toascii.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:transform version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output
method="xml"
version="1.0"
encoding="us-ascii"
/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template
match="*|@*|comment()
|processing-instruction()|text()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|comment()
|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
utf8.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <sample> characters, ξ € я þ ø æ œ and accents, å ç ê ñ ü </sample>
Executing the command
xsltproc -o ascii.xml toascii.xsl utf8.xmlproduces an ascii-encoded version:
ascii.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?> <sample> characters, ξ € я þ ø æ œ and accents, å ç ê ñ ü </sample>
If you are already using xsl to produce your feed, just add encoding="us-ascii" to the xsl:output element. If you have it by some other means you can use the identity transform given above.
I think that the F1/F2 keys on my MacBook Air used to adjust brightness of the primary display. In any event, they certainly don't now (10.5.6) allow me to adjust the brightness of my 24" LED display—they adjust the brightness of the MacBook Air screen, whichever display is selected as Primary.
However, the Display tabs of the Display panels of System Preferences allow you to adjust the brightness of each display independently.
Update: 6 April 2012 This stopped working again. Adding ant-commons-net-1.7.1.jar to ~/.ant/lib resolved the problem.
My installed version of ant (I presume from Developer Tools) doesn't support the ftp task:
$ which ant /usr/bin/ant $ ant -version Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on August 25 2008 $ ant -diagnostics | grep ftp.*Available ftp : Not Available (the implementation class is not present) $
The manual says To use the FTP task, you need jakarta-oro 2.0.8 or later, and commons-net
Sounds simple—just find the right .jar files and put them in ~/.ant/lib
jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar is easy to find.
commons-net-2.0.jar is also easy to find, as is commons-net-ftp-2.0.jar —but they don't work. For example:
$ ls ~/.ant/lib commons-net-2.0.jar jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar $ /usr/bin/ant -diagnostics | grep ftp.*Avail ftp : Not Available (the implementation class is not present) $
ant-commons-net-1.7.1.jar does work with Ant version 1.7.0 — and you can find it if you look.
But there is an easier way...
Update to Ant version 1.7.1 (I did this from MacPorts with Porticus; Fink also has this version):
$ which ant /opt/local/bin/ant $ ant -version Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on June 27 2008 $ant -diagnostics | grep ftp.*Available $ ls ~/.ant/lib $
The MacPorts installation includes the requisite java archives. (I haven't tested the Fink install.)
Lovely new MacBook Air — light as a feather pillow.
polyml. I start with polyml, tetex, bibtex2html and hevea. Porticus doesn't have carbon-emacs.Channel 13 is legal in the UK and many other locales, but not in the USofA.
Since most default setups use channel 6 or channel 1, those of us looking for uncrowded channels often find 13 is uncluttered.
When I did a recently clean install of Leopard, I found that my channel 13 network disappeared — invisible!
Update (2009-03-09) It seems that the 10.5.6 update (I installed it on 2008-12-27) has changed something so this tip no longer works!
Although my MacBook Time Zone was set to Edinburgh - Scotland (you can set this in System Preferences, under Date&Time), I found that my Wireless Card Locale was set to US (which disables channel 13).
You can check your Wireless Card Locale by going to "About This Mac" > "More Info ..." > "Network; Airport Card".
The solution was to set the Time Zone to Tokyo then restart. Wireless Card Locale is then "Worldwide" and channel 13 is enabled.
Setting the Time Zone back to "Edinburgh - Scotland" and restarting again gives me "Worldwide" — but setting Time Zone to "Los Angeles - USA", and restarting, sets it back to "US".
It doesn't appear as an update, in the iTunes store, the post date and version number appear unchanged (see the image) — ignore that! Just delete the old one then get the Google Mobile App again from the AppStore. Apple will tell you the update is free since you already bought this App. The packaging is still old, but Now the update appears and the packaging is updated too the app inside is new (version 0.3.142.951) and it does do voice search.
So slowly, that it appears that the system has hung.
Time Machine is great — but ...
Making the first backup of a 60GB of data takes a very long time over wireless.
Making a large incremental backup, after being away for a week, or more takes a very long time over wireless. Even over 802.11n I find Time Machine, backing up over my WDS, manages about 1MB/sec. Say 1GB takes 16 minutes, then 60GB takes 16 hours!
If Spotlight is indexing the backup while the backup is changing, things go even slower.
Solution: For the first backup, or for an incremental backup after you've been on the road, first turn of Spotlight indexing for the backup. Then connect your Mac by ethernet cable directly to the LAN port on the Time Capsule, and leave it to chunter away overnight. Finally, turn indexing on to let Spotlight digest the backup.
To see what Time machine and Spotlight are up to, use the console to inspect the logs. Set the filter so you see messages from backupd. You should see a sequence of messages appear slowly (but no longer very slowly), like this:
Starting standard backup
Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Data
Disk image /Volumes/Data/myMacBook0016cb896cb9.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of myMacBook
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of myMacBook/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 2.21 GB requested (including padding), 801.41 GB available
Copied 22 files (24.4 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Each line starts with date and time and the label /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[22205]
Spotlight should be allowed to index your backup — so that you can find valuable nuggets of information lost in the past. Spotlight is also very slow if it has to index 60GB over wireless — if you do this, your log may also include lines like:
Waiting for Spotlight to finish indexing /Volumes/Backup of myMacBook/Backups.backupdb
The solution is the same — when Spotlight has lots of changed stuff to index in the backup, let it work over ethernet. If you unplug and go wireless immediately your big backup is done, Spotlight will spend a long time catching up — and it won't let the next hourly backup begin until it has caught up.
In addition, spotlight crashes: mdworker does the Spotlight indexing — you may find messages like this:
Formulating crash report for process mdworker[22921] (0x10c720.mdworker[22921]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
When this happens, it slows things down even more. It's a bug — every crash is a bug. Some discussions suggest that it may by triggered when Spotlight attempts to index ill-formatted emails.
You can tell Spotlight not to index emails — and it may have some effect. Waiting patiently also seems to work — and I need to be able to search for mail by content, so I have to let Spotlight index my mail.
This occurred after the iTunes 8.01 (11) update. Restarting the Mac seems to cure it.
To screen grab: While holding the Home button, click the on/off/lock button.
You will find an image file among your photos. Download it to iPhoto. Export as PNG, TIFF or JPEG.
vpn2.net.ed.ac.uk ...
Save
You can use character entities in your XML provided you declare them.
Add a DOCTYPE to your XML — all you need is the name of your root tag (my document in the example below is a recipe) and a reference to the special character sets you want.
— including lt gt mdash quot euro
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE recipe [
<!ENTITY % xhtml-special
PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Special for XHTML//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-special.ent" >
%xhtml-special;
]>
<recipe>
...
</recipe>
You can add more declarations to the DOCTYPE mdash just add them between the square brackets [...]
— fractions, accented characters, pound, yen, cent, copy
<!ENTITY % xhtml-lat1
PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent" >
%xhtml-lat1;
<!ENTITY % xhtml-symbol
PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Symbols for XHTML//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-symbol.ent" >
%xhtml-symbol;
Updated for Snow Leopard 2009-10-21.
The print-server address is printif.inf.ed.ac.uk
You can look up the available printers with the DICE command printers
[tammy]mfourman: printers
if213m0 HP 4100DTN - IF213
if237c0 Canon iRC3080i multi-function device in IF237
if313m0 HP8150DN - IF313
if336c0 Canon iRC3080i multi-function device in IF336
if413m0 HP8150DN - IF413
if435c0 Canon iRC3080i multi-function device in IF435
if536c0 Canon iRC3580i multi-function device in IF536
You should install and select the Canon iR C3080/3480/3580 PPD Canon UFR_II_V200_MacOSX_us_EN.dmg File for Mac OS X for the multi-function (scan-print-copy) Canon devices.
You probably already have the HP drivers. If the configuration is not attached to the printer, you can print it using the printer's menu buttons.
Update 2009-02-24 This is now a public beta from Apple.
If you are registered as an ADC member (go to http://developer.apple.com/ then to the ADC member site link to register for free), you can now download the Safari 4 Developer Preview.
This this is very fast and very compliant: 100/100 on the Acid3 test. (Firefox 3.0.5 scores 71/100.)
First Direct online banking now works fine (and fast).
As a long-term Fink user, I've found it hard to summon up the energy to move to Macports (previously known as Darwin Ports), until now. A dead disk provided the necessary impetus to overcome this energy barrier.
MacPorts—so I am told by friends I trust—is closer to the Mac zeitgeist, and has more packages available in fresher versions.
My first experience was not good. I tried the standard install from .dmg with two fresh, fully updated installs of Leopard + x11 + XCode Tools—one on my ageing MBP; one on a sparking new MacBook Air. Neither succeeded in creating the code>.profile that is supposed to adjust the PATH environment variable.
You should start with a standard install as it does almost everything—and may even do it all, for some it succeeds.
In the environment of a shell accessing packages installed by MacPorts, PATH should include /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin and MANPATH should include /opt/local/share/man. The standard install is meant to create a .profile to achieve this. It didn't.
Googling macports leopard profile led to various suggestions (as usual, others have encountered this problem before me). One of these works—others don't.
Do not add the new paths to /etc/paths and /etc/manpaths.
Do not add new files named macports or MacPorts, containing the new paths, to /etc/paths.d/ and /etc/manpaths.d/.
Do create a file ~/.profile containing the following code:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH
Then you can type sudo port -d update in a fresh terminal window, to update your MacPorts installation, and sudo port install emacs-app, for example, to install a Cocoa version of emacs.
You'll find the Emacs installed as a regular application in /Applications/MacPorts/.
Note: If you already have a .bash_profile or .bash_login, you can and should append the commands above to that file, and optionally rename rename that file as .profile, instead of creating a new .profile.
Explanation: (for the full story try man bash)
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.
Using imapsync to migrate mail from one IMAP server to another, I hit a problem. Google led me to the following description of the same issue:
Not mail.app's problem!
The solution is to use imapsync with the flag --syncinternaldates
I am now using
/usr/bin/imapsync --syncinternaldates \
--host1 mail.inf.ed.ac.uk --user1 mfourman --ssl1 \
--host2 imap.staffmail.ed.ac.uk --user2 mfourman -ssl2 \
--noauthmd5
to finish the transfer of about 4GB of mail history.
To start, try it out on a small folder --folder Test
First test with --dry :
/usr/bin/imapsync --syncinternaldates --folder Test \
--host1 mail.inf.ed.ac.uk --user1 mfourman --ssl1 \
--host2 imap.staffmail.ed.ac.uk --user2 mfourman -ssl2 \
--noauthmd5 --delete --dry
If everything looks OK then run
/usr/bin/imapsync --syncinternaldates --folder Test \
--host1 mail.inf.ed.ac.uk --user1 mfourman --ssl1 \
--host2 imap.staffmail.ed.ac.uk --user2 mfourman -ssl2 \
--noauthmd5 --delete
Expunge from the source by hand (in Mail.app Mailbox > Erase Deleted Messages).
Using the --expunge flag upsets other users of the IMAP server:
That's the short story. The actual story was more involved and also included using my gmail IMAP account as a temporary buffer to recover from some false starts. (Free 6.5GB quota - thank you Google!)
Many find the translucent menu bar in Leopard disconcerting. There are several tips posted elsewhere suggesting various hacks involving obscure environment variables to turn off this feature.
Go to System Preferences > Desktop and Screen Saver. Uncheck the Translucent Menu Bar checkbox. You're done!
Emacs fails with the error
Fatal malloc_jumpstart() error
In a Terminal window type
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/emacs-i386 /usr/bin/emacs-i386.backup $ sudo /usr/libexec/dumpemacs -d $ emacs --version GNU Emacs 22.1.1 ...(Here,
$ is the shell prompt.)
Once youve checked all is OK you can remove the backup
$ sudo rm /usr/bin/emacs-i386.backup
Time Capsule is an airport extreme base station (802.11 a, b, g, n) with built-in hard drive for backup.
You set up the base station as usual, using AirPort Utility.
You can use your old base station to create a WDS network and extend your wifi coverage to attic or garden – or share with a neighbor. In any case, APPL say, you should make the Time Capsule your main base station – the one directly connected to your ISP.
If you just have 802.11n-capable access points you can let your network autoconfigure. Choose a common Network Name, Wireless Security and Password. Under Airport > Wireless set the main base station to Create a wireless network; set the other base stations to Extend a wireless network.
A domestic ISP typically gives you internet access via a single IP address. Depending on your ADSL or cable hardware you have various options for setting up your system to distribute local IP addresses to clients on your local network.
My ADSL modem is a speedtouch router. It provides a DHPC server with optional MAC authentication. WDS setup is simple: each base station is configured to get its own IP address as a DHCP client, and to act as a bridge passing wifi client traffic to and from the ADSL modem.
If your ADSL or cable modem isn't set up as a DHCP server, you can get the Time Capsule (or any Airport base station) to do this. Set the main base station to "Share a public IP Address" (under Internet).
If your modem provides a range of addresses that clients can select manually, you can set the main base station to distribute these. Select "Distribute a range of IP addresses."
Time Machine sometimes gets confused and can't mount the backup disk. Apple say the volume name should be shorter than 27 characters. Elsewhere they say it should be purely alphanumeric [0-9,a-z,A-Z]*
All went smoothly, but now my remote base stations (I have a WDS daisy chain 4 links long - see earlier post) don't show in Airport Utility. Still connected - I can ping them just fine, and the remote airTunes express shows up in iTunes.
Update this seems to have been a temporary problem. Everything is now visible again.
All my airports (7 at last count) are configured in bridge mode - my speedtouch adsl modem router provides a DHCP server. On the bright side, this update seems to have helped with one issue: the 802.11n extremes now seem to pick up an IP address from my router using DHCP (previously I found this didn't work and had set manual IP addresses as a work-around).
Problems with BBC radio-player?
You need the Flip4Mac internet plugin. Download it free from microsoft. Use the "customize" button when installing to select the browser plugin.
SPSS is great, but ...
The Mac install is clunky. If you've aborted an install and want to start again, or you just want to get some space free, you have to remove the old installation.
You've removed all files and directories matching *spss* (and, for good measure, youve also tried *SPSS*), and you can't start again because the installer complains that you haven't removed a previous installation.
remove InstallShield (probably sitting in your home directory) and start again!
If you want to get rid of an older version, and you haven't yet started, use the uninstaller installed with SPSS,
They say:
Problem Subject: Trying to install SPSS 16 for the Mac yields an error message that there is already a previous flavor
Problem Description: I am trying to re-install SPSS 16 for the Macintosh and I am unable to do so because during the installation I am met with an error message telling me that there is already a previous flavor of SPSS on this machine and that it must be removed before a new install can take place. What is the reason for this message and how can I resolve this so that I can install SPSS 16 for the Macintosh?
Resolution Subject: Completely remove the previous installation of SPSS 16 from this machine
Resolution Description: The reason this is happening is that the previous installation of SPSS 16 for the Macintosh was not uninstalled correctly. If you merely trashed the application folder then SPSS 16 was not uninstalled. The uninstall function is found with the SPSS 16 applcation in the 'Applications' folder. In order to resolve this issue if SPSS 16 is not removed through the uninstall process please go into the 'Users' folder on the main operating systems hard drive. In here you should find a house with your login name on it and you should go into this item. In this house (folder), please trash the following:
~/initspssmac
~/InstallShield (directory, remove the whole thing)
~/Library/Preferences/com.spss.spss for mac.plist
Now empty your trash. Now you will be able to re-install SPSS 16 for the Macintosh.
Apple say:
... not quite: this is a 2.1GB download, and it looks as though AAPL wasn't ready for the demand. Currently at 7% after seven hours, and just picking up speed (presumably as the US goes to sleep): occasional bursts of action, but still very slow—10 hours to go...
Strange behaviour: Everything was fine, working with my MBP on a multi-AP WDS network of new Airport Extreme base stations; move to another floor, just next to an AP, can't see the signal, or rather I see it fleetingly, get asked for password, then it disappears. My first conclusion is that the AP must be caput, but back upstairs, where I started, I now see no signal.
Another laptop can see the signal fine. I try manually changing network setup, restart, shutdown, even taking out the battery then restart. Still no wifi connection. I conclude that the wifi card in my laptop must be damaged, or at least have a dodgy aerial connection.
Back at home I still have the same problem—and neither Airport Utility, nor iStumbler can see the signal either. I think I'll try looking at the wifi card.
To check on how to do that I need to get online. So I find an ethernet cable and connect a LAN port on one of my base stations. I'm now online, as expected, but I didn't expect to see Airport Utility and iStumbler burst into life just because I made a wired connection. Everything looks normal, and Network preferences now says I have a wireless connection.
I unplug the ethernet cable, and everything stays fine; back to normal. I don't pretend to understand why.
It happened again!
Same symptoms - persisting across two different WDS networks.
Again, recovery coincided with my decision to give up hope and use a wired connection to my base station.
Crazy!
Here's the barebones of a javascript function that will request xml from a url configured to return xml (text/xhtml+xml or application/xml for example) and then asynchronously add a selected fragment of the returned xml as a child of some node on your page; this target node is selected by id.
function getXML(url, toGet, id){ var request = new window.XMLHttpRequest(); // for IE use ActiveXObject instead function load(){ var content, node; if(request.readyState == 4 && request.status == 200){ content = document.adoptNode( request.responseXML.getElementById(toGet)); node = document.getElementById(id); node.appendChild(content); } // should handle null response or failure } if(request){ request.open("POST", url, true); request.setRequestHeader("Accept","application/xml"); request.onreadystatechange=load; request.send(null); }// else ... }
This will work on a gecko browser, if you have everything set up properly. You'll have to expand it to make it robust, as per the comments (and more).
Example xhtml to call this:
<div id="putInfoHere" />
<span class="button"
onmouseup='javascript:getXML(
"http://my.site.net/contact.xhtml",
"address",
"putInfoHere");'>Get Info</span>
The file contact.xhtml should have an element such as <div id="address">...</div> with the matching id. This will be harvested. The clever part is that the harvested code still lives in the correct namespace. So imported markup is correctly interpreted as xhtml.
Make sure files are served with an appropriate mime-type. With apache you can do this using .htaccess :
AddType application/xhtml+xml .xhtml
A future post will have more, on how to send text or xml data to a script using httpRequest with POST instead of GET.
Here's the barebones of a javascript function that will request text from a url configured to return text (text/plain or text/plain for example) and then asynchronously put the returned text into a textarea element (or any other element with a value field) on your page; this target element is selected by id.
function getText(url, id){ var request = new window.XMLHttpRequest(); // for IE use ActiveXObject instead function load(){ if(request.readyState == 4 && request.status == 200){ document.getElementById(id).value = request.responseText; // should handle null response or failure }} if(request){ request.open("GET", url, true); request.setRequestHeader("Accept","text/*"); request.onreadystatechange=load; request.send(null); } // else ... }
This will work on a gecko browser, if you have everything set up properly. You'll have to expand it to make it robust, as per the comments (and more).
Example html and javascript to call this (note how the call uses the id of the textarea):
<textarea id="putInfoHere" />
<span class="button"
onmouseup='javascript:getText(
"http://my.site.net/info.txt",
"putInfoHere");'>Get Info</span>
Make sure text files are served with an appropriate mime-type. With apache you can do this using .htaccess :
AddType text/plain .txt
You can replace info.txt with a cgi script that produces a header and info on stdout. For example (with otherwise pointless sleep to demonstrate asynchrony), put the following mydate.cgi in a cgi-enabled directory:
#!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/plain\n" date sleep 2 date
Change the URL in your html accordingly, and make sure your script is executable chmod +x mydate.cgi
A future post will have more, on how to receive xml instead of text and how to send text or xml data to a script using httpRequest with POST instead of GET.
In what follows, substitute your short username for myshortname
Create the file /etc/apache2/users/myshortname.conf
containing the following text:
<Directory "/Users/myshortname/Sites/"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>Set the group and owner as follows:
sudo chown root:wheel /etc/apache2/users/myshortname.conf
Restart apache by switching Web Sharing off then on in System Preferences.
Blocking tcp traffic from two ranges of IP addresses on ports 80 and 1863 prevents MSN messengerlogin and initialisation.
You can input the following via telnet login to your speedtouch (telnet -l <user> 10.0.0.138) for temporary use—to revert to saved configuration use system reboot, save or add it to the firewall section of user.ini for a permanent block. (View source to see lines split here.)
firewall chain create chain=nomsn firewall rule create chain=nomsn prot=tcp srcport=1863 src=65.52.0.0/14 action=drop firewall rule create chain=nomsn prot=tcp srcport=1863 src=207.46.0.0/16 action=drop firewall rule create chain=nomsn prot=tcp srcport=80 src=65.52.0.0/14 action=drop firewall rule create chain=nomsn prot=tcp srcport=80 src=207.46.0.0/16 action=drop firewall assign hook=input chain=nomsn exit
See CLI reference for your model.
* * ______ * ___/_____/\ * / /\\ Alcatel, Speed Touch 510 ADSL modem * _____/__ / \\ * _/ /\_____/___ \ Version R3.7.2.1 * // / \ /\ \ * _______//_______/ \ / _\/______ Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Alcatel * / / \ \ / / / /\ * __/ / \ \ / / / / _\__ * / / / \_______\/ / / / / /\ * /_/______/___________________/ /________/ /___/ \ * \ \ \ ___________ \ \ \ \ \ / * \_\ \ / /\ \ \ \ \___\/ * \ \/ / \ \ \ \ / * \_____/ / \ \ \________\/ * /__________/ \ \ / * \ _____ \ /_____\/ * \ / /\ \ /___\/ * /____/ \ \ / * \ \ /___\/ * \____\/ *
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is an open-source anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, released under GPL. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi- threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.
ClamAV is included in both Fink and DarwinPorts, or can be downloaded directly from sourceforge
You have to edit the configuration files. See the manual pages for details:
man freshclam.conf man clamd.conf
You have to edit both files. On a Fink install, you'll find them in /sw/etc/. For other setups, locate clam.conf should find them.
clamconf -n tells you what non-defaults are set in your configuration. clamscan -r directory recursively scans a directory. freshclam updates your virus definitions.
man clamconf man clamdscan man clamscan man freshclam
I added the following line to /sw/etc/anacrontab
1 25 clamscan nice /sw/bin/freshclam -quiet
When you check your imported software (for a Fink installation, do this by running the command sudo clamscan -r /sw) you should find a few ''infected'' files. For example:
/sw/src/clamav-0.91.2.tar.gz: ClamAV-Test-File FOUND
There are a few more examples in /sw/share/doc/clamav/test/.
If you don't find these test cases, check your configuration.
The malware I have found is exclusively in spam mail and cached java applets.
clamdscan ˜/Library/Caches/Java\ Applets clamdscan ˜/Library/mail\ DownloadsYou can remove offending files by hand, or use the
--remove option when calling clamdscan.
X11.app won't launch for me - a quick google tells me that others have the same problem.
The idea under Leopard is that X11 will launch automatically as required, so just typing xterm in a Terminal window will launch a xterm window.
But for me this didn't work, since I had set DISPLAY = 0:0
To check, type echo $DISPLAY if the response is 0:0 (as you might expect) you need to remove the entry for DISPLAY from environment.plist (double-click on the file and the property list editor should open). On the other hand something bizarre:
mfourman$ echo $DISPLAY /tmp/launch-SKAysC/:0seems to be fine!
Note that some applications may set the DISPLAY variable on startup. I had to retire sshLogin (a Mac port of sshAskPass) because it insists on doing this. So I'm back to using ssh-add from the terminal to set up my ssh identity before launching xterm.
Connecting via ssh from the xterm then sets up an X11 connection so that remote X applications can use your Mac screen. Use ssh -X to forward X11 connections, or set this up, for hosts you trust, in your ssh configuration.
Your ssh configuration depends on various files in ˜/.ssh:
authorized_keys config identity identity.pub known_hosts
You can set your ˜/.ssh/config on a per-host basis: for example
# Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set.
# Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the
# configuration file, and defaults at the end.
Host trusted.local
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes
Host ssh.foo.uni.ac.uk
Compression yes
Cipher blowfish
ForwardX11 yes
Host ssh.foreign.com
User alias
Host *
ForwardX11 no
ForwardX11Trusted no
Note X11 forwarding should be enabled with caution.
User Specifies the user to log in as, useful when you have a different user name on different machines.
The default configuration file (see /private/etc/ssh_config) includes a list of common settings. The configuration files contain sections separated by ``Host'' specifications, and that section is only applied for hosts that match one of the patterns given in the specification. (Lines starting with `#' are comments. Copy this template, remove `#' and edit values as desired. For details see man ssh_config)
# Host * # ForwardAgent no # ForwardX11 no # RhostsRSAAuthentication no # RSAAuthentication yes # PasswordAuthentication yes # HostbasedAuthentication no # GSSAPIAuthentication no # GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no # GSSAPIKeyExchange no # GSSAPITrustDNS no # BatchMode no # CheckHostIP yes # AddressFamily any # ConnectTimeout 0 # StrictHostKeyChecking ask # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa # Port 22 # Protocol 2,1 # Cipher 3des # Ciphers aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc # EscapeChar ~ # Tunnel no # TunnelDevice any:any # PermitLocalCommand no
Dave Matthews's polyml is my implementation of choice for Standard ML (my language of choice).
The latest release (version 5.1) compiles on Leopard. The download should be unpacked automatically by Stuffit Expander—otherwise use gtar xvzf polyml.5.1.tar.gz.
cd polyml.5.1 ./configure make sudo make install
You should get the message:
Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/lib
If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
- add LIBDIR to the `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
during execution
See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
You can also download later development versions of the source from the cvs repository on sourceforge:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@polyml.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/polyml co polyml cd polyml cvs update -Pd chmod +x install-sh ./configure make sudo make install
I didn't know this and used Java preferences to set Java 6.0 as my preferred version (I had earlier installed the developer preview, under Tiger)
Calamity!
Apple confesses
The solution is to expunge all traces of Java 6, then reinstall Java.
Javablog has the answer:
Move or remove all of the following
/Library/Java /Applications/Utilities/Java /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework /System/Library/Java /System/Library/CoreServices/Jar\ Launcher.app /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/JavaApplicationLauncher.framework /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaEmbedding.framework /System/Library/CFMSupport/StubLibraries/JavaEmbeddingLib
and all your Java 6 installation receipts from /Library/Receipts/.
Then re-install Java from the Leopard DVD with the commands
open /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages/Java.pkg open /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages/JavaTools.pkg
For the avoidance of doubt, install Mac OSX Kerberos Extras—some say this is changed for Leopard (OS X 10.5) others hint that it's just as the same as it was for 10.4.
Add X509 Anchors to Keychain Access (found in /Applications/Utilities/). (It was there by default in 10.4, but it appears not in Leopard. Select Add Keychain from the File menu. In the file selection dialog, navigate to /System/Library/Keychains. You should find X509 Anchors there.
Install the University Certificate in X509 Anchors— drag-and-drop.
For me Keberos works for IMAP access to staffmail.inf.ed.ac.uk, but not to mail.inf.ed.ac.uk, nor for SMTP access to either.
Here's what support have to say:
I've run this past a few people who might know and the consensus is that Apple may have broken something. There's a strange looking message in one of the log files - Token header is malformed or corrupt
This is probably not the whole story, as staffmail does work with Leopard's Kerberos. Time to switch to staffmail...
I'm now working with Leopard aka OS X v10.5; this is a Leopard problem
Chasing around to see what could be wrong, I find two contradictory bits of information:
In Apple's version of GCC, both cc and gcc are actually symbolic links
to a compiler named like gcc-version; which compiler is linked to may
be changed using the command gcc_select.
% locate gcc_select /usr/sbin/gcc_select /usr/share/man/man8/gcc_select.8 % gcc_select -l This version of gcc_select can be used only on MacOS X 10.4.
It seems this may be connected to the CHUD problem of the previous post.
Here's what worked for me:
gcc_select (it says it doesn't work with 10.5)./Developer (XCode Tools didn't install properly anyway).Everything worked smoothly.
I still have some problems with Keychain and Kerberos, but I still like Leopard. Cover Flow is helping me clean up my desktop.
Added later: See the following post (above) for solution!
First, the good news. I have Leopard up-and-running, and it is great. It feels faster (maybe it is faster, who knows) it looks great.
Installation is supposed to be straigtforward. Put the CD in the drive and follow the instructions. We got to the place where you are supposed to select a disk on which to install Leopard - no disk appears. Wait,... Wait some more,... Make a cup of tea, ... Still a blank.
Go back, and look for an exit button - there is none. Try Disk Utility as suggested to select startup drive - no drive appears. Despair begins. I did back up my important files before starting this process, but restoring them will be a hassle - and what about the unimportant ones (I have a long tail, lots and lots of not very important files, but if they all go, that will feel quite important).
I try various incantations of keys (escape, eject, command-Q, even ctrl-alt-del) nothing works.
In desperation, I plug in an external drive to see if I can perhaps escape this nightmare by installing Leopard on that. The drive appears, but I'm not allowed to install on that drive. I'm about to do a hard reset (well forced power-down by pressing the button until it gives up). Then, my hard drive appears as a possible selection.
I select the drive, hit continue, and leopard installs without further hitch (it takes almost two hours).
It looks just the same - it just feels better, and faster. Of course, if you look closely, it isn't the same, but the changes are subtle, it feels entirely familiar, but better.
Now to install XCode Tools... This time, everything starts fine, but then fails at the end telling me that CHUD installation has failed, and I should contact the software manufacturer (that would be Apple).
Mac running slow, Keychain keeps telling me Google Desktop has changed and asks for authentication. Do I have a virus, or is something wrong with keychain?
Activity Monitor tells me that securityd is using 1.5GB of memory; something is wrong.
Googling suggests that /var/db/CodeEquivalenceDatabase may be corrupted. Furthermore, it seems that it can rebuild itself, so the lizard's tail treatment is suggested: remove the offending part.
cd /var/db
sudo rm -rf CodeEquivalenceDatabase
sudo rm -rf is serious magic, and can get you in serious trouble; be careful (long ago, I once did cd /dev ; rm -rf mouse * — where I meant mouse* — don't try this at home) ... the faint-of-heart could take a copy of the file instead and remove it later:
mv CodeEquivalenceDatabase CodeEquivalenceDatabase.old
In any case, this seemed to work. After a restart keychain asks me to authenticate access for various apps:
SystemUIServer,
GoogleDesktopAgent,
Mail, ... I do this. Everything seems normal, and securityd is using "only" 28MB of memory (back in the old days, we used to run serious theorem provers in less).
I was delighted to see Google's announcment of IMAP access to gmail, then disappointed to find that my gmail settings page didn't provide the IMAP option.
Google evidently don't know how to say "IMAP" in english english!
Solution: Log in to Gmail. Go to your settings page. Change your language setting to English (US); Save Changes and the option appears: Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Use this tab to enable IMAP access, then you can go back to English (UK).
First you have to subscribe to the Google calendar from iCal.
You look under Calendar Details on calendar.google.com; you want the 
format. Google tells you, Please use the following address to access your calendar from other applications.
http://www.google.com/calendar/......./public/basic.ics
Right-click to Copy Link Location. Then, in iCal, under the Calendar menu, select Subscribe..., and paste in the URL.
This works - but note that iCal stores the link as
webcal://www.google.com/calendar/......./public/basic.ics
Now you can set up iSync to synchronise this calendar with your phone. Launch iSync, add the phone as a device if you haven't already done so. Select the phone icon and select which calendars to synchronise. Note that this is really copy, from Google Calendar to your phone, rather than sync, since events modified on your phone (or in iCal) don't change on Google Calendar. Maybe the iPhone will do better?
pdftk doesn't rotate pdfs
pdftk - A handy tool for manipulating PDF
Highly recommended: I use it for concatenating pdf documents, or selecting a subset of pages. I get it via fink, but you can also find it online. Unfortunately, pdftk doesn't allow you to rotate pages.
Preview.app lets you rotate and save pdfs: ⌘-L, ⌘-R, or use the menu—to rotate a single page, hold the option (alt) key while doing this.
Never mind!
Gizmo works just like Skype—free calls to other Gizmo users, cheap calls to landlines and mobiles worldwide. Unlike Skype it uses open standards (SIP), so it is compatible with other VoIP tools, such as Asterisk.
Jajah uses a different model—cheap or free calls between landlines or mobiles worldwide, set up from the internet. You can set calls up from any browser, or your symbian phone can set up the call via a GPRS/EDGE data connection or SMS message, giving cheap calls from your mobile to POTS numbers worldwide.
In any case, Skype may cost more than you bargained for.
Your automated prebinding updates may be failing.
Run the command
sudo update_prebinding -debug -root / -force
If you get the following error:
dyld: re-prebound: 0x90bee000 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib update_prebinding: error: dependent dylib is not prebound update_prebinding: error 256 running update_prebinding_corethen edit the
update-prebinding-paths file (this has the list of files to prebind: the one that fails is immediately after the last one to succeed)
sudo emacs /var/db/dyld/update-prebinding-paths.txtSearch for
libgcc_s.1.dylib, and comment out the next line (by adding the #) so it reads
#/Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Web \ Start.app/Contents/Resources/Java/libmacjavaws.jnilib
libjsound.jnilib. So I comment out the following line
#/System/Library/Frameworks/\ JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Libraries/librealawt.jnilibOn the next try everything else went through. My Powerbook is much snappier.
It seems that you may need to reinstall Flash Player after doing this. Try the Adobe Shockwave and Flash player test to check. First uninstall previous versions. Shockwave will still only work if you run your browser under Rosetta. Flash is Universal
The easiest way is to find another Mac running OSX. Restart your laptop in Target Disk Mode (either via system preferences, or hold the T key down while restarting). Connect the two machines by firewire, and run Disk Utility on the other Mac.
Repairing the disk may take some time - so don't rely on battery operation, connect to mains power.
Repairing the disk may fail, so backup a copy of crucial files before starting the repair.
If you haven't yet installed QT7.2, my advice is to wait!
Here's what happened to me:
macfixit has some suggestions these didn't work for me.
It seems that the prebinding of the java libraries is at fault!
Steps to Fix:
Remove Java 6
> su Administrator > cd /Library/Receipts/JavaSE6Release1.pkg/Contents > lsbom -s -f Archive.bom > /tmp/file-listEdit
/tmp/file-list to replace all " " with "\ " and all "./" with "rm /" (I use emacs for this.)
> sudo bash /tmp/file-list > rm -r /Library/receipts/JavaSE6Release1.pkg > sudo update_prebinding
I removed the following
sudo rm -r /Library/Receipts/JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkgand installed it again. (From
http://developer.apple.com/java/download/)
The following Macs have the 802.11n hardware built-in:
However, you will have to upgrade the firmware.
The CD that comes with your new airport extreme base station contains the AirPort Extreme 802.11n enabler, which updates the firmware on your airport card to enable 802.11n high-speed WiFi:
If you buy a third-party 802.11n base station, you can get the enabler from the Apple store for $1.99
<foldername>"<foldername>"You have created a zip archive <foldername>.zip
To unzip, double-click the file <foldername>.zip
I have an Intel MacBook Pro.
In my office I have a 30" Cinema Display, wireless keyboard and USB mouse (attached to the display). I have a spare power block next to the display.
In theory I should just arrive, switch on the keyboard, plug everything in to the MacBook(video, usb and firewire connections from the display, power and ethernet from the wall), and go!
In practice, sometimes it worked, and sometimes the MacBook would refuse to talk to the display. Worse still, it would refuse to wake up if I disconnected everything, and tried to run stand-alone. Until I found the secret, I had to force a reboot with the power key.
The secret is, connect the power first!
Connect the power, plug in video, usb, firewire, ethernet. The computer wakes and the display comes to life. Turn on the keyboard, type a few characters (type them somewhere non-critical). A couple of characters may get lost initially, but once the connection is established, everything is fine.
I've added two airport extreme 802.11n base stations to my WDS network. Mostly this was straightforward. The basic procedure is just as described earlier for the previous Airport models. The UI of the new Airport Utility app is clearer than the previous version.
However, I found the two Airport Extreme base stations got confused when I used DHCP to link them into the network. Instead, I've given them manually assigned IP addresses - in the same 10.0.0.xxx range as I use for DHCP. My Alcatel Speedtouch DSL modem acts as a DHCP server, and I've set it to distribute addresses above 10.0.0.16 — which leaves me plenty of addresses below this to allocate manually.
The network is now something like this (with some base stations running the full range of protocols, 802.11b,g,n, and othersonly one of these, as shown):
airport(b) express(g) = speakers
\ /
disk = extreme(b,g,n) - airport(g) - express(g)
/ \
= extreme(b,g,n) = printer express(g) = speakers
|
router
|
= airport(b,g)
Here, "airport" means an old conical airport extreme; express is the small block airtunes gizmo; extreme is the new 802.11n-capable mini-sized device.
To insert a new base station into my existing network, I first set its MAC address (aka airport ID) as the WDS main value for each of its children; then I configured the new base station with the children's MAC addresses in the WDS remotes list.
To configure the new devices I found it easiest to switch off the other base stations, and connect wirelessly to the new device. If you click on the name of a setting shown under the Summary tab, you are taken directly to the tab where you can edit the value. You want Wireless Mode: Participate in a WDS network. You should also set the Channel: and Network Name: to match the other base stations. Then you can set IP Address:. (As described above, DHCP confuses my two new Express base stations, so I set Configure IPv4: Manually. You can find the subnet mask and router address from the configuration of another base station. You may want to try Configure IPv4: Use DHCP first, as this is simpler.) For WDS relay and remotes you want Connection Sharing: Off (Bridge Mode). This is also correct for the WDS root if your modem acts as a DHCP server; otherwise you may need the WDS root to act as DHCP server (Distribute a range of IP addresses).
