Cool, no? Very, very light.
MacPorts and Mac OS X 10.9
Nov 15, ’13
12:15 PM
Update: Twitter user @neverpanic noted that if I had issued this command:
sudo xcodebuild –license
after the ‘sudo xcode-select –install’ command that would have fixed things up so that the ‘self update’ would not have failed.
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I needed to make a change to MacPorts today and ran into a problem where MacPorts (when invoked from the Terminal) would throw the following error:
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed
Argghh.
The update to Mavericks blew out my Xcode command tools installation. (or it needed to be updated…)
You can either go to Xcode and install the tools or run this command:
sudo xcode-select –install
Now, in Terminal, try this command
sudo port selfupdate
In my case it failed…again.
I then went and started Xcode and started the application and the install seemed to finish.
I then ran the above command again to update MacPorts and this time it completed successfully.
Charts from TechCrunch regarding Apple’s quarters
Oct 29, ’13
6:53 AM
Not bad. Be interesting to see how the iPad does after Nov. 1
See here.
Microsoft Word must die!
Oct 22, ’13
8:56 AM
Good stuff here.
At WoodWing we work with InCopy files (and therefore the Adobe InCopy application) and we have a pretty nice editor we call the ‘Multi-channel editor’ that writes out in the ICML format as well.
That said the Enterprise supports a vast array of file formats such as .doc and .docx. Those files can be stored in the system and then, through some simple configuration, users can open those files by ‘double-clicking’ on them in Content Station and the file will open in its native application.
When the file needs to be used for design it is either opened in InCopy for final editing or placed onto the InDesign page. At that point there is a conversion process that is part of the Adobe applications. WoodWing maintains versions so you could always go back to the last Word version of the file if necessary.
See below for an image of the MCE.
Generally it is customers that have many freelancers that use this workflow.
Turn off Google endorsements
Oct 12, ’13
1:45 PM
I’m not sure why Google thinks this new ‘Google Endorsements’ deal is a good idea but… here’s how to turn it off.
- Go here (https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en)
- Turn off the check box
- Click Save
MySQL55 and MacPorts – problem when starting MySQL55
Sep 30, ’13
12:31 PM
I’ve been fighting a problem with my installation of MySQL55. As you may know I have used MacPorts to install the whole stack that I use.
When trying to start MySQL55 I would get an error in Terminal with text like this:
Plugin ‘InnoDB’ registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed
syntax error near unexpected token `then’ mysql
Etc, Etc.
A bit frustrating.
I found this bug report on the MacPorts site 40040
So, to fix this I followed the first entry’s suggestion:
1. Navigate to this file: /opt/local/lib/mysql55/bin/mysqld_safe
2. Open the file in text editor and go to line 724. It will look like this:
then
if
then # The pid contains a mysqld process
The information after the ‘if’ statement is missing. It should look like this:
then
if “ps -ef | grep -v mysqld_safe | grep — $MYSQLD | grep $PID > /dev/null”
then # The pid contains a mysqld process
Now go back to Terminal and issue the command:
/opt/local/lib/mysql55/bin/mysqld_safe &
MySQL55 should now start.
Nice explanation of Apple’s move to 64-bit
Sep 29, ’13
11:03 AM
Got this from Gruber. Discussion by Mike Ash. See here.
Gruber’s Review of the iPhone 5c and 5s
Sep 18, ’13
8:32 AM
Good stuff. Read it here.
Confirms my thoughts about the 64-bit processor. My only other question about the ARM processor is when is it going to show up in the MacBook Air?