Top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said Obama would be "very focused in the very near term on a whole set of issues having to do with credit card abuses."
Top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said Obama would be "very focused in the very near term on a whole set of issues having to do with credit card abuses."
On Thursday the coroner announced his verdict: the vaccine played no part in this child’s death. So far, of the papers above, only the Telegraph has had the decency to cover the outcome. The Independent, the Mirror, the Express, the Mail, and the Metro have all decided that their readers are better off not knowing. Tick, tock.
“Not only does this finding provide biologists with an example of evolution in action, but it also provides wildlife managers with knowledge that they can use to develop plans for managing invasive species,” said Langkilde. The results will be described in a paper to be published later this month in the journal Ecology.
I acquired my copy of iLife ‘09 yesterday and decided to dive deep on how Apple have implemented Flickr integration in iPhoto ‘09. Here are the results of my investigation. Be aware as you read that this is the result of a morning’s click-around investigation and not months of serious use. I will do my best to give an honest assessment of what is in iPhoto ‘09, and you’ve already read my full disclosure in the previous paragraph.
Now that the iPhone App store has been fully operational for several months, I have wasted money on many applications that I used once and regret spending money on. However a few applications have made it to my first screen (you an fit 20 including the dock) to stay for a while. Half of them are default Apple applications: Calendar, Notes, Contacts, Calculator, Camera, Safari and Mail with the phone and SMS apps in the dock. Here are the 10 applications which make up the rest. These should all work on the iPod Touch.
Although no games are on my first screen, I can’t help recommend a few that I recently played.
Have a suggestion for an alternative listed here? Let me know in the comments.
Registertovoteonline.org provides a handy widget to help… eh… registering to vote. It helps you fill out the form which then can be printed. It’s dumb that in this day and age you still have to print out a form and mail it to vote. If you haven’t registered you don’t have much time left.
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This doesn’t sound good if I want to get my MacBook Pro repaired, which has similar issues. I might as well hold off and buy a new one
Last week a MacBook Pro 15”, 13 months old, came in for repair because the battery would not charge, and the machine had stopped responding to the power button. This machine had been “heavily” used, and did not have AppleCare. In this case, the machine required at the very least a replacement logic board, a part that costs over $1000. Generally, out of warranty machines can be sent in to Apple for flat-fee repairs. This program requires a machine to show no signs of accidental damage—no significant dents, scratches, bowing, or liquid spills—but this machine had lots of dents, plenty of bowing, a separating top case, and damage to the screen.
Apple will still repair damaged computers as mail-in repairs. They have a tier system for the extent of damage, and this one was a Tier 4, the most costly. The MacBook Pro was sent in, and had most every component—inside and out—replaced as part of the Tier 4 dispatch.
When I went through all these problems with my sparseimage and hard drive corruption, I ended up with some orphaned emlx files. emlx files are the individual email messages that Mail.app uses. A Macworld 911 article reminded me that Mail.app will import mboxes, but will not import these individual emlx files.
To get those emlx files back into Mail.app, you can use emlx to mbox Converter and then import the mbox files. Hopefully Apple will fix this obvious “feature” in a future version of Mail.app.
Everyone knew this was coming sooner or later, but it still is a pain.
From: mail@flickr.com
Subject: [Flickr] Update for Old Skool members
Date: January 30, 2007 5:24:26 PM MST
Reply-To: mail@flickr.comDear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member,
On March 15th we’ll be discontinuing the old email-based Flickr sign in system. From that point on, everyone will have to use a Yahoo! ID to sign in to Flickr.
We’re making this change now to simplify the sign in process in advance of several large projects launching this year, but some Flickr features and tools already require Yahoo! IDs for sign in — like the mobile site at m.flickr.com or the new Yahoo! Go program for mobiles, available at: http://go.yahoo.com.
95% of your fellow Flickrites already use this system and their experience is just the same as yours is now, except they sign in on a different page. It’s easy to switch: it takes about a minute if you already have a Yahoo! ID and about five minutes if you don’t.
You can make the switch at any time in the next few months, from today till the 15th. (After that day, you’ll be required to merge before you continue using your account.) To switch, start at this page:
http://flickr.com/account/associate/
Nothing else on your account or experience of Flickr changes: you can continue to have your FlickrMail and notifications sent to any email address at any domain and your screenname will remain the same.
Complete details and answers to most common questions are available here:
http://flickr.com/help/signin/
Thanks for your patience and understanding – and even bigger thanks for your continued support of Flickr: if you’re reading this, you’ve been around for a while and that means a lot to us!
Warmest regards,
- The Flickreenos
Last week I tried to log into my FileVault protected user account and got an message at the login window, “Unable to log in to the user account (name) at this time”. I logged into the root account and tried to mount the sparseimage manually and got a “input/output” error upon mount. Basically, I was screwed.
I tried to copy the 18GB disk image to a external drive, but I kept getting a error -36 after several hundred megabytes were copied. After messing around with it for a while I got the idea to change it from a .sparseimage to a .dmg by just changing the extension. Sure enough, I was able to mount the disk image. I thought I would then have access to my files, but the finder was extremely slow just building the list of files, sometimes takes minutes per file.
With 18GB of files, it would take forever to even build the list of files. Assuming it would even be successful at building the file list after spending all that time trying. I started messing with disk recovery software. Disk Utility was able to repair some of the damage, but it seemed to cause more damage. Disk Utility left me with “Missing thread record (id = 11025)” messages that it couldn’t fix and it left me with a unmountable disk image. I then used Disk Warrior and it’s scavenge function to build a new catalog file.
Disk Warrior worked mostly. It did create a new catalog file but many files were unrecoverable. I did have backups of most of the important stuff, it would have been easier to just copy everything whole from the disk image. Seeing as how that wasn’t going to happen I concentrated on the stuff I didn’t have. Mostly stuff from my Library folder, application specific settings. Things like my Mail.app messages (Apple really should store these in the users Document folder).
When the finder tried to copy a file that was corrupt, instead of just skipping the file, it errors. I couldn’t just select all files and copy them at once, I had to copy one by one for the most part. Which means I missed a lot of stuff. Like the scripts I use to publish this blog.
After I got everything set up in a new user account, it was 2.3GB. What happened to the 16GB I had in my original account? Don’t know and so far I haven’t missed anything. Hopefully I don’t miss them later.
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