Cool Gadgets and Things ...

Some times Apple can not find their own ass with both hands...duh ! :-)

I would admit that it happens far LESS frequently compare to M$... but ... during a few years of using OS X as my MAIN computer I hit a few 'funny' issues. First two only very recently ...

1) See my post on Time Machine ACLs - have 'easy' fix, but you need to run command line
2) I hit similar issue with Update: it refused to save files and gave a stupid message I can not do anything about. Quick Google helped to find a solution : just wipe \Library\Updates - that was easy and can be done from Finder.

Funny, that in both cases I tried reboot and running Disk Utility so called "scan" and "fix permissions": in both cases OS X complained about it, but it found/fix nothing. That is ... a bit alarming.

Apple... you HAVE to do better in these areas. System SHOULD be able to diagnose and fix such nonsenses automatically. Duh!

3) Print dialog "stuck" in Safari. When this happens you can not kill Safari or do anything to it, but it is alive, kind of. They only way to get rid of this is to close computer with holding Power button: I had to do it a few times during last couple years and still have no idea when/why this happens.

I want this fixed ...

4) iPhoto refused to automatically open up when camera connected ; it happened once and been solved by reboot. I would blame Adobe Photoshop Elements that I run from iPhoto before and it was still running. Adobe is a pig... :) Reboot fixed that. Not biggie. :)

5) Last issue to complain about is iPhone SDK. It needs some Voodoo to make "simple" things work. Well, I guess Apple expect developers to deal with it, so we do, not a biggie :) But ... it should "Just work" :) Please ... :)

Last thing to mention: I would suspect that you can just bring your Mac to Apple store and they will help, if you can not Google and all issues I described were minor, so while nobody perfect ( not even Apple !) it is a clear win over Windows experience: a few minor quirks a year on OS X vs major issues on Windows every day :)

OS X is Zen ... my MacBookPro is delight ... iPhone is my favorite toy ... :)

Apple... RULZE

Labels: Apple OS X issues

I was not looking for it in particular, but in Discount Amysment Shop
in Ikebokoro I found this nice little gadget: rubber dick that grows
in size 600%! well it is probably silicon and not rubber and as
instruction in Japanese translated for me say: it grow SLOW if you put
it in water! Well, so no surprises :-( it say it will shrink back if
removed from water. I think it is still cool: 6 times grows is nice,
so I bought one for each of my good friends who will understand:-) as
lucky charm. I have no idea if this dick can be used practicaly as
say ... Dildo! But I will ask my lucky friends after they will grow
theirs! And post update here . Yeah... Japan is cool ... Like that!;-)

I own a honorable title of Language Obuser and Japan is my favorite
country : funny misspelings are everywhere: you can lough about 'coffy
jerry' and 'flabored tea', but when you need to pee, you'd better get
what it is writen here ! ;-)

This was found in center of Nara: English version of Kansai ben I
think:-)

When I went to Japan I switched my Time Machine to smaller external disk, so I can still do backups on the go. It all worked well: new disk was empty. When I returned and tried to connect old disk back to Time Machine I got a funny message ( "You do not have appropriate access privileges ") about permissions. Quick google brought me to this web site

In a nut shell, running these simple command from terminal and entering password were about all it took to fix :

$ cd /Volumes/{volume name}
$ sudo chown $USER {file name}

Note: {volume name} and {file name} should be your Time Machine volume name and file reported in stupid dialog.

Before googling, stupid me tried to fix permissions using Disk Tool from Apple, but it did not found any issue after scan.

WTF? Apple?

Labels: OS X Time Machine disk switching trouble