| com.apple.quarantine.STFU |
[Aug. 30th, 2008|08:08 pm] |
"..." is an application which was downloaded from the internet...
Garr, this is really annoying in Leopard. Too bad there isn't a global admin setting to set this to STFU!!!
Anyways, after some research, found that items downloaded into the Downloads directory get flagged with com.apple.quarantine. Everytime you start the app, it has the Vista'ish question, "Cancel or Allow?". Isn't this the basis of a Mac Ad that made fun of Vista?
Any hoo, this feature is very annoying. What else is annoying is that the orgination Admin user has to OK it. Not another user with Admin priveledges, that would make too much sense! Oh noes!
I found a better way by just parsing all the apps in /Applications ( xattr -l *app ) and doing a quick com.apple.quarantine scan on all the downloaded apps for the students. Then just apply 'xattr -d com.apple.quarantine naggy*.app'.
I hope in Snow Leopard, they shit this frakken thing off, or make it a "Please STFU" Preference Pane.
Of course, there is a much easier hack round this. Start Safari, download Firefox, configure Firefox to save all files to the Desktop instead of the Downloads directory. No more warnings! This seems to pass the xattr hook in Downloads that adds the infernal com.apple.quarantine extension. Upon further testing, this does not seem to work 100%, it is stil intercepting extractions of *.dmg... hrmmm... |
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| Old Eyes |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|10:15 pm] |
Well, as I creep up on the big 45, I am finding my eyes getting weirder everyday. I used to have 20/10 vision, then 20/15. Then one day, I woke up near sighted. Lasted for a few weeks. Before, when I got tired, my eyes would tell me by blurring the world. I would take a nap, and they would reboot. Not now. Driving makes me nervous. So I go into the eye doctor. Am told my prescription is "minor". My eyes are frakked up and I can't read letters across the block. I go to the Apple Developers Conference and my prescription changes again. I can't read the displays in the 5000 seat hall with my new distance glasses. WTF?!? This makes for a sad Apple Dev conference for me. I get back, get a new prescription. New glasses. Fancy glasses. I want to fucking see normal again. Part of me is asking, "What is normal?" I start boosting my Vitamin A uptake ( 10,000 units/day ), add some Bilberry. About a month later, I don't need distance glasses anymore. My near sight is now fucked. I need reading glasses to read the serial number of the stacks of MacBooks I just got in, otherwise, I run out of arm. I love getting older. Total glasses cost, @ $1500. Whatever you do, don't let them sell you progressive lenses. Everything looks like a fishbowl, and makes the neck tired from "focusing". |
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| WWDC |
[Jun. 8th, 2008|11:33 pm] |
In San Fran, the weather is awesome. The hotel network connection sucks. I need to get some ISP work done and the network is blocking me. Looking forward to some Apple IT goodness this week. |
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| LinuxFest/WWDC08/Squirrels! |
[Apr. 26th, 2008|06:09 pm] |
Well, I cruised up to Bellingham today to check out the LinuxFest. I ended up standing behind ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) krow in the last part of a lecture on cloud development. I was laughing inside, because he was on a MacBook. Attended two talks and politely sat through them. Both were not really on-topic. One presenter said, "Leaving now, it's about to get worse..." and then, it did get much worse. Another quote, "Am I boring you to tears? Yes, there is one now!" as he points to an audience member. The MySQL lecture was much better, though I thought he could use Caffeine on his laptop.
Traffic sucked balls coming back through Everette. Why the frak do people slow down north of Everette, just to get to the city border and speed back up again? The traffic was all janky, then it just cleared with no incidence as the cause to the slow down. It's as if drivers collectively went, "Oh, the speed limit's 60, not 30! D'oh!"
Had a hard time concentrating on anything since my left achilles tendon is killing me, slowly throbbing in pain. Was not helped this morning woken up early with the gang of contractors replacing the house soffets at 7:00am Saturday morning. Come the frak on, 7:00am on a frakking Saturday morning?!? I cursed them all for breaking my slumber, then they broke the window to my office. Now all the squirrels that used to live in the attic are all confused and clinging to the windows.
Work has a $4000 professional development credit for me. I am thinking of cashing that in and attending Apple's WWDC08 in San Franpsycho this June. Do you think I should go? |
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| The Invasion |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|10:27 pm] |
Nicole Kidmann is fine. Mmm, mmm, I like those pantyhose with intricate designs up the back of the leg. The scene where she leaves in a huff in her car to get her son was cut so funky, it made me laugh. I like her electric blue eyes. End scene, her bra was too tight. Tom Cruise was an idiot.
I like how they dropped Stamets name in the bio-analysis lab. What other scenes had major discontinuity? Towards the end, she is racing down the street in a car on fire! The hero scientist is in a helicopter with a full military compliment. They never fire on the pursuing masses.
Interesting observation, all the scared people have blue eyes. All the paranoid people have brown eyes. Didn't notice the green ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets |
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| Eddie Izzard is Coming to Seattle! |
[Mar. 20th, 2008|08:10 am] |
Well, he is on tour again and I managed to get tickets this time for July 12th! Woo hoo! Last time, his tickets were scalping for $450!!! |
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| Happy Birthday boonedog!!! |
[Mar. 8th, 2008|03:20 pm] |
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Happy Birthday to boonedog !! |
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| Breaking Bad... |
[Feb. 13th, 2008|08:59 pm] |
This is a new series on AMC. I recommend checking it out. |
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| 36 Questions... |
[Feb. 4th, 2008|02:40 pm] |
Gleaned from uranushertz
YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... You're on my list, so I want to know you better! I did change a few of the questions to be more applicable to my friends, and also I think "what's the worst thing that has ever happened to you" is a horrible question for a public internet post.
BE HONEST! COPY FROM HERE THEN SEND DIRECTLY TO ME IN A COMMENT THEN, REPOST THE EMPTY QUESTIONS.
Also, if you don't answer with short answers, you're likely to go over LJs comment length limit when replying to this one. If you do, feel free to reply in two comments, I don't mind. Or you can just write short answers, but they're not nearly as fun to read.
( 36 Questions for You... ) |
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| Dear Lazy Web... |
[Jan. 30th, 2008|11:58 pm] |
OK, remind me again what exactly LANG=C means in the /etc/default/locales file? Will that suppress the evil unicode compile warnings I get when building out Zope on etch? I must be tired, cause GTFG gives me the c.lang.faq.
People need to stop shooting each other @ my place of work. WTF? |
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| Dreams... |
[Jan. 21st, 2008|08:07 pm] |
Backlogging a couple of dreams since I am mucking about with bupluerum and vervain.
Dream # 1.
Someone stole the passenger door off my Mazda. I spend all my time trying to hide my stuff from potential thieves. I end up putting my backback with the $$ laptop in the trunk and setting the car alarm. That will stop those pesky thieves. ( WTF would someone steal my passenger door? )
Dream # 2.
Crazy relatives insist on doing acupuncture on me. I can see a bio-scan of my muscular structure and my right lung isn't working correctly ( a muscle is ultra-tense and needs to relax ). I tell this to the crazy pair of relatives and they insist on a therapy. I wake up doing deep breathing. |
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| Happy Birthday Namosi!! |
[Jan. 9th, 2008|10:24 pm] |
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Happy Birthday namosi. Cheers! |
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| Baby needs some new shoes... |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|04:57 pm] |
So it seems Zed has, through carefully crafting some evil rants, is exiting the Ruby on Rails community. I read his rant and many elements ring true for me as well. The last Rails Conf 2007 in Portland, OR I personally found a soulless event. RailsConf Vancouver was the bee's knees in my book. As for the community comments, I do get Zed's disdain of the elitism of the #caboose and the weird inside jokes. Whatever, in retrospect, Rails did make for a cool product @ the evil empire and significantly changed my way about programing (at least my thinking). My claim to fame is thanking DHH for making my job easier and giving him the treasured "Arrogant Bastard Ale: You are not Worthy!" bumpersticker and presenting my (mediocre) project @ RailsConf 2006 and getting both positive and negative feedback. Have I done anything with that project lately? Not really, lost my interest and feel it needs to cook some more before I do Version 2 ( and work on solidifying a realistic business plan for it, or some sort of ROI expectation ). It does have usage in the community, especially for Q/A people. Hrmm, managed expectations.
Then again, do I program that much anymore? Not really, I am a lazy sysadmin at heart. My perl kung fu is weak and my stance wobbly. And being 43+, I am looking at the rest of my life and make career choices based on overall quality of life factors. Sure, I can go back to corporate and make butt loads of money, but the manufactured stress that is programmed into those environments really kill me ( literary, not good for hypertension ). Zed also links to a great article on psychopaths in the software industry.
On a side note, I just finished driving back from San Diego to Seattle. WTF is it with public restrooms and short stall walls. There are some creepy jeepies that hang out and rest stops and I don't want some dude leaning his arm on the top of the stall saying "What's all the hub-bub bub?" while I struggle with road constipation. How about some privacy? Yeah, and thanks for drilling a hole in the wall so you can watch me wipe my ass. That is not helping me with my constricted colon, Mr. Pervy ... |
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| 2008 Meme: What Privilege Do You Have? |
[Jan. 1st, 2008|09:03 pm] |
Snarked from namosiI saw a blog game on a couple of Quaker blogs (this one and this one), so I thought I'd offer a similar game with a spin on class based. It's based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University that I found on this Yahoo group around class on college campuses. The exercise developers hold the copyright but have given me permission to post it here and ask that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright.
BOLD WHICH APPLY TO YOU:
Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
Were read children's books by a parent
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the minority of your college costs*
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs*
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs*
Went to a private high school
Went to summer camp
Had a private tutor before you turned 18
Family vacations involved staying at hotels
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
There was original art in your house when you were a child
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18
You and your family lived in a single family house
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
You had your own room as a child
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course
Had your own TV in your room in High School
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 [1]
Went on a cruise with your family
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
[1] I remember when you could still *smoke* on planes! |
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| Heroes, Season Two Finale? Thoughts? |
[Dec. 4th, 2007|04:41 pm] |
Discuss? My thoughts in comments... |
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annoyed
contemplative
sick
aggravated