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Got an email from the City of Heroes developers saying the open beta is ready. So downloaded the 40 MB file, which isn’t complete game, now its downloading around 2 GB of data. I don’t meet the video requirements, I highly doubt it’ll work, as it is using cider shit. Last game I tried, Spore creator creator that uses that same cider shit, didn’t work. Maybe if my mac mini was running windows it’d work, but fuck that. Not even sure if I should keep it downloading the 2.7 GB of data, as it probably won’t work anyways. Cancelled it, no point in waiting, since its very unlikely it’ll work anyways.

Just finished updating to 10.5.6, not sure if its more stable yet. You can see what’s new here.

Mac wouldn’t wake up, so had to do hard shutdown, and that is the message I got after logging in. Reported to apple, maybe it’ll be fixed in next update, haha.

At first I thought it wasn’t working because macam said “no camera”, but after downloading the latest cvs version it said my camera name. Then I noticed it was really dark and crappy looking, finally figured out I need a lamp turned on for it to look better. Though in parallels, the picture didn’t seem as dark, but it didn’t work very well under parallels. Maybe the next version of macam will make it work/look better.

Today was my last day of school. Now I can sit on my ass and do nothing all day. Oh yeah I got a $50 Visa Gift Card, but I can’t access the site using Safari, because the site only works in IE. Thanks a lot you fucking cunts, now I have to open vmware, just to access your pathetic fucking website.

Update
Just bought a DRM free song off of amazon.com. Hmm I can order some condoms on amazon…

Update
Just ordered the following:
The Last Lecture
Kingston 2GB microSD Memory Card, Retail Package
Mobilelite USB 2.0 9-IN-1 Read

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To access giftcardbalance123.com in Safari type the following command in a terminal.

defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "\"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)\""

Or a better solution use TinkerTool, and enable the Develop menu in Safari, then you can choose the user agent, and change it back easily, without using the terminal.

I had to do a complete restore two times, might not of needed to the first time. Did a complete restore the first time because the boot camp thing said the drive had an error, so I rebooted repaired, and said everything was fine, but my mac has been unstable anyways, so I figured I would do a complete restore. The second time was to get rid of ubuntu, I figured ubuntu 8.04 would be good, like they say, so I didn’t try the live cd. Now I need another external hard drive, so I can have one has a backup drive, and another for data. Right now I have one external drive which has two partitions.

The macupdate bundle has 10 programs, I’d probably use most of the programs too. Much better then the other bundle I saw on a different site.

Includes the following programs:
Hazel
Typinator
Art Text
DVDRemaster Pro
MenuCalendarClock
Sound Studio
Leap
BannerZest
StoryMill
Parallels Desktop

Guess I need to sell some stuff, could sell my DS, and the games. Would get more then 65 dollars probably. Not sure what else I have, that I can sell.

As typical in these bundle sales, some applications are “locked” until certain sales thresholds are met. Parallels, BannerZest and Sound Studio are currently in “locked” status. These applications will become available to all bundle buyers once sales goals are reached.

Quote from macrumors.

Update

The locked apps unlock at 5,000, 10,000 & 15,000 sales respectively per the receipt some people have received.

Guess I’ll wait a while. Its almost at 1,000.

Probably won’t get it because I rather get Mario Kart Wii.

PCSX version 1.6 works on intel macs. The other version I tried didn’t work, because it was ppc only.

Download PCSX 1.6
PCSX 1.6 mirror

There is a build of the open source version of Virtual Box available here for download. Seems to work fine, had to change one setting as that site states “If you can’t boot your guest OS, try PIIX3 IDE controller setting.”. You can also download it from here.

Never knew how bad this site looked in IE7. Don’t care, it looks fine in safari and firefox and opera too. Its functional in IE7, the colors aren’t the correct colors though.

Update
Fixed it, only because it was an easy fix. Might not look right in IE6 though.

Update
Beta 3 of Virtual Box for OS X is available on their site.

Update
The package has been updated, you no longer need to download and install ffmpeg, everything required is included.
Download fixed package
Hopefully the new package is fixed, intel only for now.

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You can download a build with video transcoding enabled here. You will also need to download and install ffmpeg.

Version SVN-578 2007-12-19

NOTE: please remove your fuppes.db

* fixed ffmpeg compilation for
older ffmpeg versions (patch from Klaus S. Madsen)
and with missing libswscale
* fixed FAAD decoder for Ubuntu (patch from Klaus S. Madsen)
* fixed stupid buffer overflow in
FFmepgWrapper (patch from Jared D. McNeill)
* MediaServer description values configurable
* libnotify support without gnome-panel-applet (#1814615)
* fixed #1822462 (ImageMagick includes)
* fixed #1815588 (segfault when en-/decoder fails to load)
* added optional refId support for virtual folders
* support for Yamaha RX-N600
* #1838835 temp dir configurable
* pass additional ffmpeg arguments (add node)

I updated the fuppes package to version SVN-578. You can download it here. You have to remove your fuppes.db file, otherwise it won’t work. Open a terminal and do the below:

rm .fuppes/fuppes.db

For the xbox 360 to see it, you might have to add the below to fuppes.cfg:

Under:

<device name="Xbox 360" virtual="Xbox 360" enabled="true">

Add:

<description_values> 
<friendly_name>%s %v : 1 : Windows Media Connect</friendly_name> 
<model_name>Windows Media Connect compatible (%s)</model_name> 
<model_number>2.0</model_number> 
</description_values>

So it should look like the below:

    <device name="Xbox 360" virtual="Xbox 360" enabled="true">
      <description_values> 
      <friendly_name>%s %v : 1 : Windows Media Connect</friendly_name> 
      <model_name>Windows Media Connect compatible (%s)</model_name> 
      <model_number>2.0</model_number> 
      </description_values> 
      <user_agent>Xbox/2.0.\d+.\d+ UPnP/1.0 Xbox/2.0.\d+.\d+</user_agent>
      <user_agent>Xenon</user_agent>
      <xbox360>true</xbox360> 
    </device>

You can find fuppes.cfg, in .fuppes, in your home folder, in finder click go and go to folder and type in .fuppes. Or type nano .fuppes/fuppes.cfg in a terminal.

If your getting errors like the below, then most likely you set your DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, which causes a lot of problems.

dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_jpeg_resync_to_restart
  Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
  Expected in: /opt/local/lib/libJPEG.dylib
 
Trace/BPT trap

I set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH path, as the macports install instructions said to do so, or at least it use to.
I was trying to compile mythtv and I got an error like the above, when it was running moc, which is provided by qt. That program nor some other programs will work if you set that variable. The solution is simple, comment out the “export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$QTDIR/lib”, in your .bash_profile folder, open a terminal and type nano .bash_profile, in your home directory.

Then run the below command:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=""

Or just restart the terminal after you comment out the “export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$QTDIR/lib” line in your .bash_profile file.
If you don’t have a .bash_profile file, then it might be .profile.

Oh yeah and I never got mythtv to compile on leopard, I gave up. But to save yourself some trouble, you can download a qt3 intel installer here. Which was compiled on leopard, it will be installed in /opt/local. You will probably need to set the variable QTDIR to /opt/local, so you can compile programs that need qt3.

export QTDIR=/opt/local

You can also add that to your .bash_profile file.

I found the information about DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH here. Google actually found that for me, thanks google.

If you don’t want to use the installer for qt3, then you can find information on compiling qt3 here.

Update
Download the fixed package here. That package should work.

Update 12/14/07
You can download a pkg installer here. It doesn’t contain my working config files though, you can find my working config files here. Fuppes will be installed into /opt/local/bin, so run /opt/local/bin/fuppes to start.

Fuppes is a free UPnP media server, which can stream to the xbox 360 and other devices too. No need to pay for some program called “connect360″. You can compile it yourself, or download the intel binary, sorry powerpc users, I didn’t cross compile.

Download Fuppes-SVN-549 intel binary OS X (Tested on my mac only, running leopard, no guarantee it will work. Use at your own risk.)

The source code has been edited, so you can go to youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv, which will rebuild your virtual folders, it already had the ability to update the database or rebuild the database by the web interface, I just added support to rebuild the virtual folders from the web interface.

The main reason was so I could add the following to a shell script:

cd /tmp && wget myip:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuild
cd /tmp && wget myip:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv

Which will obviously do the same thing as if you pointed your web browser there.

Download PresentationHandler.cpp (The only file I modified.)

If you make a cronjob to run the above commands, then you will most likely want to set a port number in fuppes.cfg, so it doesn’t change every time you restart it.

For those who can’t read my included readme file, I copied and pasted it here.

Install

Double click install, the install script will copy everything in bin/ to /usr/local/bin and everything in lib/ to /usr/local/lib.

Edit vfolder.cfg, and then copy it to ~/.fuppes, ~/.fuppes will be created the first time you run fuppes, or just do mkdir ~/.fuppes, vfolder.cfg isn’t required by all devices. If you don’t want to use the xbox 360 virtual folder configuration, then change

<vfolder_layout device="Xbox 360" enabled="true">

to

<vfolder_layout device="Xbox 360" enabled="false">

Then change

<vfolder_layout device="default" enabled="false">

to

<vfolder_layout device="default" enabled="true">

You don’t need to copy the included fuppes.cfg, as it will create one when you open it. It is already configured to be working with the xbox 360 though. You might need to put your local ip address in between

<interface></interface>

Also you will most likely need to change the shared objects, to whatever folders you want to share, you can add as many

<dir></dir>

as you want.

After you have it configured you can run it with fuppes, then type r, and then after that is done type v, if you need virtual folders. The source has been modified so you can go to youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv, which will rebuild the virtual folders, you need to do that after you update, or rebuild the database.

The script was modified so I could add to a shell script on my mythtv box, to automatically update the database, after it exports the show to the xvid format.

youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuild
youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv

Nothing will show in your browser when going to youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv, if you look in the terminal you will see that it is working, unless you don’t have a vfolders.cfg file in ~/.fuppes.

Uninstall

Double click uninstall, which will delete everything it installed, but it won’t delete your settings by fuppes, you can delete it manually by running in a terminal “rm -fr ~/.fuppes”

I finally uploaded mythfrontend 0.20.2. I have a crappy upload speed, so it took about 25 minutes. This is the universal binary from here. Hopefully it’ll download faster from my site. Don’t link directly to the file, if you do anti leech will be turned on.

Download MythFrontend-.20.2-Universal.dmg

Update
Hot linking has been disabled. Also moved the file. Link has been updated.

Update
You can find svn packages here. For intel only unless otherwise stated in the filename. If you’re using leopard, your remote should work in all of those svn packages.

To use the svn versions your backend will have to be using a svn version too. If you’re using mythbuntu then you can follow these instructions for upgrading to the svn version. Might work with the official ubuntu too.

Mythtv release-0-21-fixes (Intel only.)

Using version 0.20-fixes of the mythfrontend for osx. Downloading a newer version, very slowly, might upload it here too. Could probably compile it faster, then this download. Downloading at less then 20 KB a second, and the file is around 70 MB. Darn google found nothing, when searching for “MythFrontend-.20.2-Universal.dmg”. The name of the file. Mythbackend doesn’t crash when using the frontend on the backend.

MythFrontend-.20.2-Universal.dmg slow download

Update
The frontend still crashes, but the backend hasn’t crashed yet.

All I need is the free TextWrangler, made by the same people. The included Text Edit program would be good enough, if it could successfully open php files. Pretty sad, notpad in windows can open php files. Could use nano, in a terminal, that’s included by default with osx.

Searched google for “osx mythfrontend remote”, and went to the same site I downloaded the frontend from, didn’t think of just trying the remote. They applied a patch for the remote, and I just tested my remote and it works.

Link

A cool free program, that you can drag an image on, and it gets colors from it, which you can use for whatever you want.

Download colorate

Trying wine on my new mac mini, it just installed starcraft, even know there’s probably a mac version of starcraft, I don’t have it. Darn it doesn’t work, worked in linux with wine. Maybe it’ll work with the no cd crack.

OS X intel compiled wine download

Update
Found starcraft osx native installer. Doesn’t work. Ejects the cd, bastards. Damn it have to download mac version from bittorrent or something, and then use my pc cd key. Damn I hate you blizzard. The file is over 1 GB, and I don’t feel like opening any ports to speed it up, so I’m not going to download it.

All you have to do is edit /etc/smb.conf. Don’t want to search for a gui to do it. Don’t need a gui, easy to edit a file. Had to change the name of my laptop too, I don’t think samba likes ‘ in the name of the computers.

sudo nano /etc/smb.conf

I saw it in stock, won’t say where, because if you want one, you can get off your lazy ass, and go look for one. I wasn’t looking for one though, and don’t have $250. Trying to decide if I should sell the iBook my uncle gave me. He doesn’t care if I sell it. But its missing one key, because it won’t go on right. It’ll go on, but it’ll be sticking up on the bottom, the thing that holds it down broke or something. Not buying a new keyboard for it. Might be able to get $250-$300 out of my other laptop, won’t go under $250. The battery is almost new. Not sure how much I can get from my iBook. Probably won’t sell it, will sell the other laptop, I like osx better then linux, and windows. If I sell the iBook, I won’t be buying a wii. Rather have a mac mini, then a wii.