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'.
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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.
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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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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Now this is cool. Google Video now makes the videos available in flash, instead of the modified VLC video player.
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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
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 {} \;
