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OS X: Application won’t open; not allowed to exec quarantined

By Tim On 2012.05.11 · Leave a Comment

In OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the new Gatekeeper feature has a mechanism that prevents certain things from opening.  This is only apparent if you run Console and observe the error message that appears when you attempt to run an application that it shuts down:

5/11/12 9:44:57.000 AM kernel[0]: qtn-exec: not allowed to exec quarantined [...]

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OS X Console crashes on launch

By Tim On 2012.05.10 · Leave a Comment

One fateful day, Console stopped launching.  It appeared to be in connection with one of the 10.8 developer preview releases, but the connection was hazy at best.  Being a developer and running said developer preview OS, the console is a really important part of easy log viewing, for professional and for casual uses.

There has [...]

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Base64 encode in Chrome

By Tim On 2012.04.10 · Leave a Comment

WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO FIND?!

Original answer comes from the blessed stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246801/how-can-you-encode-to-base64-using-javascript/247261#247261

The “btoa(…)” and “atob(…)” functions are the answer.  The names are as bad as they come these days, and impossible to find.  When dealing with extension development, this sure beats having to include a stupid Base64Encode script to do [...]

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Change Hamachi Client Identity (h2-client.key)

By Tim On 2012.03.29 · Leave a Comment

I’ve had this problem with Hamachi for a while: because client management is pretty lacking (in part due to the new management’s desire to up-sell you to paid tiers), people fill their networks with people that have multiple Hamachi installations on different partitions, or separate laptops, etc.

When Hamachi went to version 2 with the [...]

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OS X 10.8 Server: Modules disappearing

By Tim On 2012.02.21 · Leave a Comment

While playing with the Server app for OS X 10.8, I had a lot of trouble with internal exceptions.  It seemed to continue to function when you chose to ignore the exception (yikes), but at least it was useable.

But after pushing changes to the local DNS module, it periodically had trouble trying to read [...]

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Panic! What happened to Web Sharing in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?

By Tim On 2012.02.20 · 7 Comments

Web Sharing, despite its poorly crafted feature name, was the simple interface in the OS X System Preferences that turned on Apache in the background.  In OS X 10.8, however, that option has been removed from the “Sharing” section.

It appears that in the developer preview build currently available, though, all of the binary Apache [...]

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Automatically Restart Minecraft Server on Linux

By Tim On 2012.01.16 · 1 Comment

On Linux, all manner of automation is available.  I run my own minecraft server process on my virtual private server, and have been occasionally faced with random crashes.  (Truth be told, the machine needs just a tad more RAM, so perhaps the process is killed by the OS for this reason.)

To keep my Minecraft [...]

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Strike Against SOPA

By Tim On 2012.01.14 · Leave a Comment

http://sopastrike.com/

Quite a lot has been said about SOPA and its trans-political meanings for people everywhere, but to further drive the points home, the Fight For the Future group is encouraging websites everywhere to go on an Internet strike.  This means bringing down your own web site (hopefully with a helpful [...]

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Customizing sidebar icons in Textmate

By Tim On 2011.12.27 · Leave a Comment

Now here’s a difficult-to-Google-search niche concern: how do I change the sidebar icons for files (or folders) in the Textmate sidebar?

Most of my attempts to find an existing article on the subject were decided failures, because the query was just too wordy, and all I’d find was Textmate replacement icons and file type icons [...]

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Boot Camp Driver Downloads

By Tim On 2011.11.19 · 14 Comments

For any that have tried to set up Boot Camp without your unique computer’s OS X installation disk (which holds the boot camp drivers) will know that using other Mac disks simply won’t work.  Even if you crack open the folders to run the individual driver installers will eventually encounter weird problems or arbitrary failures.

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