You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.
To convert a certificate generated for Apache to a PEM file usable for Pound, do this:
Frustrated about having Faces in iPhoto and not in Lightroom? Frustrated that it's then in Aperture, but not Lightroom 3 beta 1 and 2? Frustrated about not hearing about it being a priority in Lightroom at all? And still addicted to Lightroom? Yupp, me too. But this night, for reasons not related to this post, I thought, hey, perhaps Picasa can help out? What I found is too good to be true, so it's probably going to have all kinds of weird side-effects. But for now it seems to be great! You see, Picasa doesn't move the files out of place, and it works with XMP (which Aperture does not, even though it claims to). And of course, I save all changes in an XMP sidecar. This great article simply states that all face detection will be written back as metadata in the file, and even updated into the XMP, so that I can just read it back into Lightroom! That sounds fantastic! So right now I'm scanning my entire library and look forward to a lot of tagging! 
I've had a problem forever that when iTunes closes, it forgets the password to the iTunes store, and it forgets the password to my Audible account. I've Googled it once or twice but couldn't find the answer, and since I hardly ever close iTunes except for boots, and since Quicksilver is so fast to open 1Password to retrieve my passwords, it's only been a minor annoyance. But today I wanted it fixed, and Audible has actually provided a few solutions. The last one worked for me, I moved the /Library/Preferences/com.audible.data.plist out of place, relaunched iTunes, entered the password, closed and reopened iTunes again, and it still works. Super! The new and old files differ not in size, but the key is different and the old file had some flags set on the file.
A Mini Server (two disks, no superdrive) became redundant in our setup, so I used it to test a few things. At the same time I needed Visual Studio, so I dedicated one of the drives to Windows 7. After installing it with bootcamp, the mini would reboot as Windows, but if I pressed option and selected OS X, and rebooted after having used OS X, I'd get a "no OS" flash and the mini would reboot, find no OS, reboot again and loop. If you ever get this problem, the fix is easy: Press the option key and select boot into OS X, then go to System Preferences, Startup disk, select your OS X disk, and press restart. It'll now behave correctly and reboot into OS X at startup.
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Are you having any of the following problems?
- In SharePoint Designer 2010, when you select "External Content Types", you get "The Business Data Connectivity Metadata Store is currently unavailable."
- The Business Data Connectivity in Central Administration under Manage Service Applications gives you "Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Bdc\client.config line 34)"
- When you create a new Business Data Connectivity service you also get "Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Bdc\client.config line 34)"
It seems that Apple doesn't want people switching from Lightroom to Aperture. In this support document, Apple confirms that they only import strictly what they HAVE to to say that they comply with XMP, but they don't support XMP enough to make it useful. Expect to loose all your labels and ratings when importing from Lightroom, and don't expect to have the data transfer back to Lightroom in case Adobe releases Lightroom 3 and you'd rather stick with that after your 30 trial days are up.
In case anyone's interested I posted a sample Spring 3 / Hibernate / TestNG project on GitHub today. My motivation for doing so is to have a code base a project can start from, and a starting point for discussions on StackOverflow and such.
Recently I bought a Canon Pro9000 MkII printer. About a week later, Snow Leopard was released. I decided I wasn't too fond of the drivers that came with Snow Leopard and wanted the "official" ones. However, they won't install on anything beyond Leopard, unless you do some tweaking. If tweaking is what you'd like, you've come to the right place. In this little post, we'll install them.
Went through a bunch of old junk and found my old SIM card from when I lived in Brisbane. Popped it into my iPhone, luckily I had disabled the PIN code. Settings, Mail-Contacts-Calendar, Import SIM Contacts... voila, I have my REALLY old phone book back. I wonder if those guys still have the same numbers.