Posted February 25th, 2009
Example of the strangeness
Like a good little fanboy, I installed the Safari 4 beta on my aging iMac. So far, I am really liking the new version. Nothing earth shattering, but the performance gains are quite nice. Even on this old G5, Safari seems a lot zippier.
I have noticed something really odd since installing the beta. Mail.app stops rendering HTML emails correctly. I’ll get the first few lines of an HTML email and then a bunch of whitespace. If I resize the window, the email appears normally.
Anyone else seeing this?
Posted March 16th, 2007
We have a solution. The was that the 10.4.9 upgrade changes the Storable cpan module for Perl. The solution came from Peter Walsham at Axomic. I just tried it and it works. (Interesting to note that CPAN reported that my Storable module was version 2.15 before I tried this. Something must have been eaten in the OSX 10.4.9 upgrade.)
Thanks Pete!
Hi,
We just encountered this on a 10.4.9 server
We managed to fix the problem by getting the latest version of Storable and installing it into:
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/*
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Storable.pm
Get the release from…
http://search.cpan.org/~ams/Storable-2.15/
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AM/AMS/Storable-2.15.tar.gz
…as root do
tar -xvzf Storable-2.15.tar.gz
cd Storable-2.15
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Pete
Posted March 14th, 2007
I used fink for ages. Love it. I just did Apple’s latest Mac OSX 10.4.9 upgrade and something has gone off the rails. Anyone getting this too?
Storable object version 2.13 does not match $Storable::VERSION 2.15 at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/DynaLoader.pm line 253.
Compilation failed in require at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 38.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 38.
Compilation failed in require at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Config.pm line 27.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Config.pm line 27.
Compilation failed in require at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink.pm line 79.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /sw/bin/fink line 29.
Posted February 14th, 2007
I love my iMac. Really. Truly. Love it. Every so often it does something to test my patience.
When the mood strikes me, I like to take a self-portrait using Photo Booth, the cute little app that Apple has built. I send the photo of to friends and loved ones. It is a more interesting way of saying hi than:
Hey -
What’s up?
I’m bored.
i
At any rate, I wanted to do that this afternoon. I fire up Photo Booth and it tells me another application is using the iSight camera, please close that application and try again.
- What a very Windows-esque uninformative error. How the hell was I supposed to know which application had the camera pinned?
- Why didn’t I get the choice to close the mystery app from the error message?
- WTF? See #1
I searched the process list to no avail. I went so far as to log out and log back in. Nothing. I deleted Photo Booth’s plist. Nada.
So I used the intarwebs to go to the Google. Sure enough, people are having the same issue I am. “Solutions” range from zapping the PRAM to renewing your DHCP lease. As my dad would say, “That’s about as helpful as pig in shit” – no idea what that really means but it sounds appropriate.
I took the very drastic action of rebooting. REBOOTING! My Mac. Yes, I rebooted. This, in my opinion, is an admission of total and utter failure. Continue reading "iSight Silliness"...
Posted January 10th, 2006
Before every major Apple event, a gaggle of rumor mills spin into action. From home media stations, to tablet devices, to spreadsheet applications, to Steve Jobs being declared iMaster of the Universe. Yup, everyone with a crazy idea for an Apple product makes their equally crazy predictions. But, there is definitely one announcement that they did not see coming. Ours.
Today we announced the public availability of our Identity Driver for Mac OSX. Granted, Steve wasn’t on stage talking about it, but we are going to work on that for next year. Okay, okay, so it isn’t an Apple product, but it does run on a Mac.
The rumor mills shouldn’t be ashamed about not anticipating our release. No one expects identity management news out of Macworld. Heck, people don’t expect identity management news about Apple at all. That doesn’t seem right to us. Macs in the enterprise are more and more common. And it’s not just the design staff and the cool people who have them; it’s regular people too.
We have customers with Macs in their enterprise. They wanted to be able to establish pervasive identity in their Mac communities just as they can with their Windows and Linux environments; they required a complete view of their world. Our customers asked and we delivered. And that was that… less getting some new Macs in the office and a bit of development work. Continue reading "What all the Macworld rumor mills missed"...
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