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DNS problems with Snow Leopard 10.6

September 8th, 2009 Jacken 7 comments

I’ve had some bizarre problems with my DNS today. I checked /etc/resolv.conf but everything looked ok. Checked the settings dialog for my network and at first glance, that one seemed ok as well.

Screen shot 2009-09-09 at 00.34.55

But normally there should be a dimmed version of the DHCP assigned values there.

Screen shot 2009-09-09 at 00.35.08

Just select the empty one and press the minus sign. Sneaky little bug there!

Dimmed DNS values

Save your settings and you should be good to go.

Getting Perian 1.1.4 to work Snow Leopard 10.6 to work

August 14th, 2009 Jacken 1 comment

There?s a problem with getting Perian to work in Snow Leopard. But there?s a quick fix outlined here, but If the PreferencePane is installed to only the current user, you need to paste the following into the terminal:

cd
cd Library/PreferencePanes/Perian.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Components
cp Perian.zip ~/Downloads
<code> cp CoreAudio/A52Codec.zip ~/Downloads
cp QuickTime/AC3MovieImport.zip ~/Downloads
cd ~/Downloads
unzip AC3MovieImport.zip
unzip A52Codec.zip
unzip Perian.zip
sudo mv Perian.component/ /Library/QuickTime/
sudo mv AC3MovieImport.component/ /Library/QuickTime/
sudo mv A52Codec.component/ /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/

MAMP WordPress and Error establishing a database connection

March 20th, 2009 Jacken 4 comments

I?ve installed MAMP on my Mac to do some changes to my blog. I tried to set the WordPress wp-config.php file to connect to localhost:8889, but got an error that It could not connect to the database. After replacing localhost:8889 to 127.0.0.1:8889 it works. My quick guess is that permissions for the root user is set to allow connections 127.0.0.1, but not localhost. Anyway, it works now.

My wp-config.php file looks like this:

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
/** MySQL database username */

define('DB_USER', 'root');

/** MySQL database password */

define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');

/** MySQL hostname */

define('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1:8889');

Firefox plugin for PDF

June 23rd, 2008 Jacken No comments

Yes! Finally a plugin for displaying PDF in Firefox 3 for mac. It uses PDFKit.

Get PDF plugin for Firefox here

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iPhone will increase Macintosh software

June 11th, 2008 Jacken No comments

Nobody talks about the fact that all the companies that? will now start making programs for the? iPhone? will first? learn how easy it is to program with Cocoa. Then suddenly you have a lot of new programmers that know how to program for the Mac as well. Yes, it’s that similar. What would stop them, now that they have inhouse knowledge to make a Macintosh version of the software? Nothing…

Yes, please apple, kill AppleScript

June 4th, 2008 Jacken No comments

Everytime (well, last night actually) when I need to do something with Applescript I shudder with horror. The syntax is actually something you forget all the time. There must be better alternatives for Apple to use as a scripting language. I agree with this article, but Python or Ruby would be a better alternative I think.

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Mac OS X 10.5.2 hangs on wake from sleep

May 21st, 2008 Jacken No comments

I have had this annoying problem with my Macbook Pro. Sometimes when waking the machine from sleep, the machine can not connect to the selected Airport network and then hangs with spinning pizza of death.

Apples next update to 10.5.3 looks like it will fix it. Hopfully Apple will release it soon…

From Fixed list of Mac OS X update 10.5.3 - Joining AirPort network after wake issue resolved

Word in Microsoft Office 2008 saves without saving

May 13th, 2008 Jacken No comments

Here’s a nice bug for ya. One of the users at work has a Word document, and when she uses “Save As…” to save the file to another location everything looks normal. But Word never saves the file! It’s non existant! This is only if the setting for compatibility with Office 2004 is set.

This isn’t the first time something like this happened, you also have the infamous “Let’s delete the Powerpoint file before saving and then crasch“-bug where users where left without a document after saving.

You see a lot of reviews of Office 2008, but it feels like no one has the guts to call the pig a pig…