As if I didn’t have a crappy morning already, my Mac OS X Mail had to start bugging during my morning routines by the computer. After countless crash-reports and relaunches I even rebooted, but without success.
I found some hints on Google, including one on disabling Growl Mail. This seemed to be the most realistic solution, but didn’t work. I also tried many other suggested workarounds like deleting ToDos in iCal, clearing some caches, hitting some keys when Mail starts and so on. Nothing helped. After even more relaunching and sending bug reports to Apple, and another five minutes of Googling, I discovered a thread that had solved the problem by deleting the GrowlMail.mailbundle directory from HD/Library/Mail/Bundles.
Luckily, that worked for me as well. So now I can finally start my day and look forward to whatever else Murphy has got in store for me.
I can’t understand why Apple has not included week numbers in iCal. Not even as an option. Well, luckily I found a php script that generates a calendar that you can import into iCal and that way get week numbers as “whole day” events. Ugly? A bit, but it might be worth it.
Continue reading ‘Week numbers in iCal’
After a long long long downtime, I’ve finally managed to get my home brewed discussion board up and running again. My friend M shouted at me on the 23rd of August at 11:52 AM that it’s throwing some kind of NullPointerException, but I didn’t have time or motivation to investigate it before today. Actually I’ve been on my way to bed for several hours already, but I just couldn’t let it be.
Continue reading ‘Manegen forum is back up’
When working inside screen over ssh in the Mac OS X Terminal application, it for some reason always hangs after the computer has slept. There’s seems to be no way to resurrect it, other than closing the Terminal and opening a new one, letting the old ssh connection die in loneliness.
However, this problem is avoided by either not using screen (magically, a “normal” ssh connection doesn’t hang the Terminal), or by using autossh to automatically restart a lost connection. I decided to try out the latter option.
Continue reading ‘autossh + screen = fully automatic relogin’
I’ve created my first Widget for Mac OS X. I started off creating it manually when I accidentally tripped over Dashcode, an application in Leopard that let’s you easily create your own widgets. It was up and running in a few clicks. Another couple of hours and it was ready to be released.
This widget displays today’s menu in the Exactum Unicafe restaurant in Helsinki. The whole week’s menu is viewable using the browse buttons at the bottom of the widget. This first version is really simple, but fully functional. In the near future I plan to extend it to support all Unicafes in Helsinki. UnicafeWidget is only available in Finnish.
The widget is free for download on the Projects page.