Doh. I just fired up iTunes, and my tunes were gone. The tracks are still all on my hard drive, but the playlists and songs in iTunes are missing in action. I’ve been using iTunes since before it was iTunes (I was a registered owner of SoundJam MP, which was purchased from Casady & Greene by Apple to become iTunes 1.0). This is the first time I’ve lost data in any of my SoundJam/iTunes libraries, in something like 8 years (roughly 8 major OS updates, over several computers).
An image is worth a thousand words. This is the single reason why Garage Band is so cool:
Garage Band isn’t great because of new technology, or ease of use, or interface design (perhaps in spite of wood grain…). It’s great because it gives me a chance/reason to break of the rut of being just a consumer of music. I can dabble on the creative side, even though I couldn’t play in instrument to save my life.
After much pulling of (what’s left of my) hair, the CVS server on commons.ucalgary.ca is running again. Turns out that Panther handles password differently than 10.1.5 did (yes, our server was that out of date…), so the pserver barfed on authentication attempts.
Connecting to the CVS server via SSH works like a charm.
It’s a trivial change to make on the client side. Change your to
:ext:username@commons.ucalgary.ca:/Library/CVS
Really should have been running under SSH all along - pserver is a gaping security hole, with the plaintext passwords passed through the pipe…
This is a test post to show Peter Samis how to use ecto.
This image was taken from the meeting room on the 36th floor of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, overlooking Union Square, Macy’s, etc… That’s a loooong way down.
Thanks to Bill Bumgarner for the heads up. Looks like Apple really gets the whole syndication thing.
They’ve got a cool interface to generate a custom RSS feed of new releases in the iTMS. Now THAT’s a way to keep people buying new stuff… Send reminders into their news aggregators (or websites, or whatever).
In San Francisco for a few days for the Pachyderm meeting. It’s weird having green stuff around in January. That just ain’t right.
About to head into the first session of a 3-day planning marathon. Should be fun. We’ll be spending a bunch of time working on requirements for the current software and for the new build, as well as some Bigger Picture Stuff.
Mike and I just went for a walk, hitting CompUSA to score a copy of iLife ‘04 - except they’re completely sold out. No copies for another week. Got to play with Garage Band on a shiny new G5 with a 23" display. Cool stuff. Scary that a hack with negative musical talent can create finished-sounding music. Brace for the clip-music revolution. Flashbacks of the “Desktop Publishing” era. Oy.
I had to ignore my unwritten rule about never ever installing MacOSX as an “Upgrade Install”. I have always used either “Erase and Install” or “Archive and Install” to avoid issues wrt versions, overwriting etc…
When I upgraded the OS on commons.ucalgary.ca, I didn’t have a spare drive to use (well, I have the drive, and it’s sitting in the server - it just isn’t hooked up) so I did an upgrade. Big. Mistake.
I just came across OSXPlanet via MacUpdate.com. One of the reviews there mention that it’s an app written by 15 year old Gabriel Ott.
It takes the NASA “cloudless earth” and “earth at night” images, projects them into whatever global projection suits your tastes, and can also overlay current cloud coverage. It also shows the day/night areas of the globe, showing either “cloudless earth” or “earth at night” as appropriate. VERY cool.
Boy, was Alan right… Don’t use the version of MySQL (4.0.16) that comes prepackaged in MacOSX 10.3 Server. Man, does it stink.
Update to 4.0.17, using the handy dandy installer provided on MySQL.com/downloads - it works great, and even starts on boot (unlike the version that comes with panther…) Just bit the bullet and updated versions on careo.ucalgary.ca, and the weird database behaviour has apparently disappeared.
Alan’s writing about what he calls “repository folly,” where people get so hung up on the “R-word” that they forget about what’s important. Metadata becomes king, content and users fall through the cracks.
I couldn’t agree more. Metadata, and the “R-Word” should be merely tools, serving specific roles, building to a well defined goal. They shouldn’t be the whole widget. Nobody in their right mind would care about either.
I think it’s got to be all about getting compelling content created and used. Everything else becomes means to that end. Including CAREO, Pachyderm, the iApps, etc…
Almost done updating the Learning Commons webserver to MacOSX 10.3 Server. Process went ok. Not as smoothly as I’d hoped, but better than I’d feared. The installer wouldn’t let me do an “Archive and Install” so all I had to choose from was “Erase and Install” and “Update” - 2 options I never use when installing MacOSX. I chose “Update”.
It kept all settings, accounts, etc… and the whole process was pretty painless.
