X11 though ssh in Tiger
Today, I had ssh’d into a a server and I tried to launch a X11 program, and I got this error message:
X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
It looks like that Mac OS X 10.4 includes version 3.8 of OpenSSH. This new version defaults to using untrusted cookies for X11-Forarding. This can be worked around by using ’ssh -Y’ instead of ’ssh -X’.
[via macosxhints Forums]
New print server
Last night I was very frustrated. I just realized that I wasn’t able to print. I had this working before, where I had cups installed and was able to print to two printers connected to my server.
This was working until I upgraded to cups version 1.1.23. The packages were built for Fedora Core 4 on the 9th of August. This is very frustration since other software doesn’t have this compatibility problem when upgrading. For example, my configuration has not broken when I update my apache http server versions.
I decided that I didn’t want to do deal with the configuration issues with running cups on my server, so I decided to get a consumer print server. I bought the Linksys PSUS4, as it also has a 4 port switch. The only problem with this is that Mac compatible right out of the box.
fixing problems with Cisco VPN client
Sometimes when I switch networks, the Cisco VPN client doesn’t initialize properly. The only way that I had gotten this to work, was to disable and renable my network ports.
These commands were sent around a while ago, so I wanted to post them here.
sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart
This has fixed all of the problems that I have had since.
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Workaround for problem installing Firefox extension
I have been having a problem installing some Firefox extensions. When I attempt to install a new extension, I get the following message:
Firefox could not download the file at <url, including extension.xpi> because: Download error
I finally found this page that has a solution. All that you need to do is download the plugin to the disk. Then you can drag the file into a browser window. Then Firefox will offer to install it from the disk.
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Google Video
Now this is cool. Google Video now makes the videos available in flash, instead of the modified VLC video player.
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problem transcoding AAC files to mp3
I am having a problem getting AAC files to work with Jinzora. By default, Jinzora attempts to transcode all AAC files into MP3 files. (Which I think is reasonable, as not many players can support AAC.
The command that it attempts to use to transcode the file is:
/usr/bin/mplayer -ao pcm:file=/dev/stdout "/data/music/Daft Punk/Discovery/Daft Punk-Discovery-10 - Voyager.m4a" | /usr/local/bin/lame -S --silent --quiet -h -m j -b 128 -f - > /tmp/test.mp3
This puts noise in the resulting mp3 file. Here is the first 100KB of the file that has the noise in it.
But if I do the two commands seperately, the resulting sound file sounds great. These commands work great:
/usr/bin/mplayer -ao pcm:file=/dev/stdout "/data/music/Daft Punk/Discovery/Daft Punk-Discovery-10 - Voyager.m4a" > /tmp/test.wav
/usr/local/bin/lame -S --silent --quiet -h -m j -b 128 -f /tmp/test.wav > /tmp/test.mp3
Here a sample of the transcode that worked perfectly
I haven’t been able to find a solution for this, but I will keep looking
Technorati Tags: lame, mplayer
syntax for exec with find
I can never remeber the syntax for exectuing a command when running find, so I am writing it here.
find . -name "._*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \;
Delicious Library plugin for Backup 3
This is pretty cool. Delicious has released a Backup 3 plugin for Delicious Library. This allows users to automatically backup the files that are created by Library, without having to know the fill paths to the files.
[via TUAW]
Technorati Tags: .Mac, Backup, Mac OS X
Bug with new .Mac iDisk
I have paid for 1Gb of space on my iDisk before the upgrade of everyone to have 1GB of space. I was a little worried that I would be credited for the extra money that I paid for the space. When I checked the .Mac preference pane, It said that I only had 1GB of space available.
When I went on to the .Mac page, and viewed my Storage settings, it had additional options to allow up to 2GB of space available. (Unfortunately, the current selection was on the option that gave the greatest space to my iDisk.) I easily fixed that problem, by selecting a different setting, and then reselecting the largest setting.
Now it appears that I have the whole 2GB available. There a small cosmetic bug though. In the .Mac Preference Pane, it shows the maximum space as 1GB, even though the middle of the bar represents 1016 MB.
Technorati Tags: .Mac, Mac OS X
Bad domain advertising
I use GoDaddy to register my domains. I got an email from them stating that they are having a sale on .name domains, for $5.95 per year. In their form email, they state:
Now you can put www.westbrook.name On the ‛Net
I thought that it would be cool to get that domain, so I went on their site to attempt to register it. When I tried, I got a message stating that the domain is already been taken.
