We are wont to say that it was not in our power to choose the parents who fell to our lot, that they have been given to men by chance; yet we may be the sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are of noblest intellects; choose the one into which you wish to be adopted; you will inherit not merely their name, but even their property, which there will be no need to guard in a mean or niggardly spirit; the more persons you share it with, the greater it will become. These will open to you the path to immortality, and will raise you to a height from which no one is cast down. This is the only way of prolonging mortality -nay, of turning it into immortality. Honours, monuments, all that ambition has commanded by decrees or reared in works of stone, quickly sink to ruin; there is nothing that the lapse of time does not tear down and remove. But the works which philosophy has consecrated cannot be harmed; no age will destroy them, no age reduce them; the following and each succeeding age will but increase the reverence for them, since envy works upon what is close at hand, and things that are far off we are more free to admire. The life of the philosopher, therefore, has wide range, and he is not confined by the same bounds that shut others in. He alone is freed from the limitations of the human race; all ages serve him as if a god. Has some time passed by? This he embraces by recollection. Is time present? This he uses. Is it still to come? This he anticipates. He makes his life long by combining all times into one.

/misc | May 12, 2009

/windows | May 12, 2009

/windows | May 06, 2009

1. BACKUP all critical data to an external drive and then disconnect that drive. Do not reconnect until you are SURE that everything has worked out.
2. Create the new user account and log in at least once. Do not create any new data under this account, as it would simply be overwritten in the ensuing steps.
3. Enable the root account
   • In Tiger: Applications > Utilities > Netinfo Manager > Security > Enable Root User
   • In Leopard: Applications > Utilities > Directory Utility > Edit > Enable Root User
4. Login as the root user and drag desired directories (iTunes, iPhoto Library, Keychains, etc) from the old user account to the new one. We are moving, not copying, the data.
5. Login as the new user and open a Finder window.
6. Right click on the new user's Home directory and select Get Info.
7. Under Sharing & Permissions, click "Apply to enclosed items" (Leopard users will need to click the gear icon first to reveal it).
8. That's it! If you run into any troublesome directories, try BatChmod for adjusting permissions (BTW, BatChmod can also remove ACLs added to a folder or file under Leopard). You may want to delete the old user account (System Preferences > Accounts) when you're sure everything is good. Finally, don't forget to disable the root account.

/mac | May 06, 2009

Missing Sync for Palm OS[335] An uncaught exception was raised
Missing Sync for Palm OS[335] *** -[NSPlaceholderString initWithString:]: nil argument

/palm | May 05, 2009

/mac | May 03, 2009

repeat
	set DATE_TIME to do shell script "date +%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S"
	set fname to DATE_TIME & ".png"
	do shell script "/usr/sbin/screencapture -x ~/Pictures/" & fname
	delay 3
end repeat

/mac | May 01, 2009