Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I hate when that happens. The problem I mentioned (OSX Application Startup Issues) is gone. Magically, every application launches fast. And I didn’t actually do anything to fix it.

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Just a little quickie: sometimes Adium loses connections. This script will reconnect any disconnected accounts.

tell application "Adium"
    repeat with acc in accounts
        connect acc
    end repeat
end tell

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I’ve come across several Smarty Tags that call WordPress functions that have listed arguments that don’t work. I didn’t bother too much about it - usually I can live with it.

Then, I realised how I solved one instance of this happening: the Recent Comments plugin. I downloaded the source to this, and looked at it. Besides there being some spelling mistakes, it had argument names which differed from the documented ones. No wonder it was failing when I tried to change the number of comments, and the comment length!
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I noticed that for some reason some of the bits and pieces I had installed on my NSLU2 were not being restarted at boot time: notably dnsmasq, which is a Domain Name Server and DHCP server. I started using this just for fun, but found that after an NSLU2 reboot I wasn’t able to reconnect to the NSLU2. It turned out that for some reason the imac was being given a bizarre IP address, which wasn’t even on the same subnet as the NSLU2. In fact, IIRC, it wasn’t even a legal private domain IP address!

Now, I have several things installed on the NSLU2: cron, inetd, portmap, appweb and dnsmasq. I had also installed mt-daapd at some stage.

It turned out that mt-daapd was failing to load, and this was causing the script to bail out, without running the remainder of the items. I think.

Moral of the story: ensure that you are only loading stuff you need, and that everything is running smoothly.

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I’ve spent the last week in Darwin, NT, coaching a team in the School Sport Australia National Touch Championships. This is my fourth year coaching the SASSSA 15s girls team, and I just thought I might share some thoughts on my experiences this time around.
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I have noticed that my post hit count dropped off dramatically in the past week, when not posting any new entries.

Hint for new players: post often if you want people to keep reading…

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