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Girl Geek Dinners Workshop @Apple Store, 16 May 2009, Rome
«Women! The knife grinder is here!» – Apart from funny jokes ;) the italian Apple Store together with Girl Geek Dinners Roma organized on May 16, 2009, a workshop about mobile lifestyle (focusing on the iPhone, of course).
Let’s start from the beginning: what are the Girl Geek Dinners? Linda explained to the audience (nearly 20 people) that a geek is a person passionate about technology in a broader sense: the GGD is a group devoted to aggregate women interested about the internet, new medias and technologic lifestyles. Women are often underestimated in geek communities, and this embarassing clichè generated a lot of discussion in the past, and it’s still unsolved (in my opinion).
The GGD italian group was born in 2007 in Milan, and then arrived to Rome in 2008, and is also present in Bologna and in the Marche and Emilia-Romagna states.
So, the GGD group tries to generate a “critical mass” of geek women, to abolish a stereotype that “computer programmers / power users” are only men: in GGD events boys listen and girls talk, [ .. ]
Playing with Audio Units via AU Lab to gain 5.1 surround
The right session shows a document open on an aggregate audio device between soundflower (2ch) and a Creative SBLive with 6 channels: the flower receives sound input from iTunes and routes it to the card channels, using all the 6 speakers.
Making the CCacheServer Kerberos Ticket server actually Work(tm) on OSX
If you’re wondering why the CCacheServer daemon, that caches in memory Kerberos tickets obtained via kinit(1) is NOT starting .. that’s because of a strange bug regarding the LimitLoadToSessionType specified into the agent .plist, located into
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/edu.mit.kerberos.CCacheServer.plist
on OSX 10.5 systems.
You simply have to comment out these two lines:
I've already got Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6
And this is the proof:
( Of course, if you know about SystemVersion.plist, skip this entry ;) )
10.5.2 Odissey: a small journey in Mac OS X services and components
Well, I’m really happy with OSX 10.5.2. Even I’m not the one that blamed Apple for the translucent menu bar that everyone dislikes.. well, I like it. I don’t care about the TM menu bar tool, because I haven’t bought (yet) the nifty Time Capsule, I like the spinner in the Airport menu and, most of all, I really like the updates to the BluetoothSCOAudioDriver.kext that drives my bluetooth headset.
Spotlight also feels faster and faster on every upgrade, and I’m a heavy spotlight user, so this makes me really happy. Thanks Apple engineers!
Back to the topic: why odissey? Because as per my battery hints, I managed to make my MacBook2,1 SHUT DOWN while at 74% of the “Writing files” phase of the combo update… resulting in a completely broken system, as every geek could imagine :). Apple updated some libraries, and upon reboot simply nothing worked, and the darwin console was filled with lots of error messages.
how to keep your apple notebook battery healthy
3 simple rules:
- DO NOT leave your charger connected when the battery is charged, even when you go to sleep.
- DO let it discharge completely, when using it wait till it reaches 0%, when sleeping it leave it alone, when you’ll wake up and you’ll open it, a resume from suspend to disk will greet you. OSX FTW.
- Monitor it and show off OSX performance counters to your friends (images courtesy of CoconutBattery.app and System Profiler.app)
Extracting data from Apple Safari's cache
Five minutes ago, I overwritten the super-shining-new CSS stylesheet that implements the current color scheme, because i wanted to restore the original one and put it in a new theme for this site, so that people who enjoyed the old theme could continue to use it. But, as the most kiddiest system administrator, i uncompressed the original files from the backup archive OVER the current ones..
How to backup with time machine on a network share
Ingredients: Debian, Netatalk, Avahi, some trickery.
Step 1: recompile netatalk adding SSL Support: blackmac.de.
You can safely ignore the ”.passwd” stuff, because afpd uses PAM for user authentication.
Hint: disable the atalk protocol handlers in /etc/default/netatalk, for a faster startup:
