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Don’t, under any circumstances, even try to install VMWare Fusion if you are running OS x86. That is, on a non-Apple machine. I think it happened with the last beta too, but this one causes a Kernel Panic on installation, after it has managed to install the files that cause the panic. Which means a reboot also causes a panic. If you find this happens to you, boot in Single User mode (-s), and, after running fsck and mounting the root partition as readable, move or delete one or both of the following things:

• /Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/
• /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist

Then, reboot, and run the Uninstaller.

Lazy River • Louis Armstrong • This is Jazz 1 ★

I’ve just started being a beta tester for Mailplane, and it seems pretty cool. The only things I’d like to see:

• the ability to mark items as new from a button
• a search bar in the toolbar

That’s after a couple of hours of playing, including some time stripping out redundant features using CSS, which is kinda nice.

If you weren’t paying attention, today was a big day in terms of running Windows on a Mac. Boot Camp was upped to beta 1.3, and will be included in Leopard. VMWare Fusion went to beta 4, and Parallels was bumped to version 3. I’ve only finished downloading Parallels, with the single aim of getting Eve Online working with this virtualisation system. I have managed to get it working well in Boot Camp 1.2, and Cross Over Office, but couldn’t get VMWare Fusion to work on my Hackintosh. I’ll try with the newer version when that finishes. So, after installing Parallels 3, I’ve played a little bit with Eve Online. And was very disappointed. It runs, granted, after turning on DirectX, which took me a while to figure out (you have to stop the virtual machine and edit it’s settings). But it’s way slower than CrossOver Office, which is almost realtime. And the graphics are very screwed up. Like every progress bar having white blocks, and unless you are in full-screen mode you can’t click on stuff properly, the mouse pointer just doesn’t line up. It’s a while away from being usable for playing Eve in any way shape or form.

I didn’t notice this anywhere else on the net, but when I started downloading the latest Boot Camp beta, I got this response:

Thank you for your interest in Boot Camp and for downloading the Boot Camp Beta software. We hope you enjoy evaluating this software and appreciate your comments and suggestions. Boot Camp is just one of many new features in Mac OS X Leopard, the next major release of Mac OS X, due in October 2007.

The bold text is the bit that appeared new to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtyA0qTnTE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHwmlS7x7Y And finally: http://blamesociety.net/web/ (Bit of a Star Wars meme going on here!)

I’ve had issues with uploading images from ecto to Blogsome, but I wasn’t sure if it was an ecto or a Blogsome issue. It appears to be a Blogsome issue, which the following result from an attempted upload via MarsEdit tells me:

RPC message sent: 2007-06-06 16:25:32 +0930
URL: http://schinckel.net/xmlrpc.php
Method name: metaWeblog.newMediaObject
RPC reply received: 2007-06-06 16:25:58 +0930
URL: http://schinckel.net/xmlrpc.php
Method name: metaWeblog.newMediaObject
Status code: 200
Succeeded: NO
–Fault Error–
Fault code: -32601
Fault string: server error. requested method metaWeblog.newMediaObject does not exist.
Request text:

Response text:

Oh, and I can’t figure out how to retrieve categories via MarsEdit. Not that I’m unhappy with ecto, anyway.

Can’t even remember where I found this - some blog or other. What’s kinda neat is that this is the company (Core77) that Jaq came runner up in a design contest in a few years ago. (Not strictly MacOS X, more OS 7/8, but there’s no category for that in my list…)

Well, my blog sneaked past 1000 posts, and I didn’t even notice!

Thoughts of the Bored » Archived Thought » UNIX palindromes #1

There exist a “test” command and a “tset” command, but tset does not do the reverse of test. I consider this a lost opportunity.

I’ve got a new (well, soon to be replaced, apparently!) MacBook Pro on order, and due sometime this week. I’m seriously deciding whether to move away from Google Calendar, and back to iCal with the new machine. With a laptop, which I may have with me a fair amount of the time (we’ll see!), the requirement of a web-available calendar application may subside. It might also be time to reconsider Mail.app over Gmail (still using Gmail for hosting, though). There’s just a few things I don’t like about Gmail/Google Calendar. The main one is that I can’t edit the calendar in iCal, and that occasionally when I go to edit a calendar entry I get all sorts of non-registered clicks. Kinda hard to explain, but if you’ve come across it, you’ll now. I’m actually a bit tempted to go down the hosting route, with someone like DreamHost, and perhaps move this blog there, and run some other stuff off the same account. Including web-available calendars, which are controlled/uploaded by iCal. I think I’d like the flexibility of my own Wordpress installation, with the availability of plugins, and updates. And better XMLRPC support (I can no longer upload images via ecto to Blogsome). Not to mention my own domain working better than here.

Born Again • Supergrass • Supergrass ★★½