Archive for May, 2008


There once was a very expensive VPN client called VPN Tracker 5.2 Pro.

It had a younger brother called VPN Tracker 4 Personal that lived at Amazon.

Their parents would do a cross-upgrade so that buying the little brother from Amazon and upgrading him was signifigantly cheaper than buying the big brother himself.

Five days of waiting, and little brother arrives. In a box sealed with scotch tape, and a serial number that claims to already be registered. Amazon says this was the last one they had in the whole wide world.

Five days of waiting, to save a few bucks, and I still paid full price.

The end.

Posted by ChrisKnight on 5/30/2008 at 11:19 pm under Geek Bits, General.
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Pelosi vows to prevent fight at Dem convention
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
Thursday, May 29, 2008

(05-28) 20:17 PDT San Francisco — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will step in if necessary to make sure the presidential nomination fight between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama does not reach the Democratic National Convention - though she believes it could be resolved as early as next week.

Isn’t this the same Pelosi who promsied to end the war in Iraq by cutting funding? If she keeps this new promise as well as her previous ones, I expect the DNC will be a cage fight and the ‘winner’ will be the last one with a heart beat.

Posted by ChrisKnight on 5/29/2008 at 12:16 pm under Soap Box.
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Just a quick note on how upgrading to yesterday’s 10.5.3 release broke iCal, what didn’t fix it, and what did.

I upgraded yesterday, and everything seemed fine. It wasn’t until this morning that I tried to access my iCal, and I received an error dialog letting me know that iCal could not move the Calendar Cache due to a permissions problem.

I manually checked permissions on ~/Library/Calendars/Calendar\ Cache and the file was owned and writable by me, as well as the containing directory.

smeg:~ merlin$ cd ~/Library/Calendars
smeg:Calendars merlin$ ls -al Calendar\ Cache*
-rwxr–r–+ 1 merlin staff 532480 May 28 17:39 Calendar Cache
-rwxr–r–+ 1 merlin staff 311296 Feb 11 15:33 Calendar Cache~1

Running Permissions Repair inside of DIsk Utility did not help.

Moving the old Calendar Cache files out of the way did fix the problem, and the new iCal was able to upgrade and rebuld its databases:

smeg:~ merlin$ cd ~/Library/Calendars
smeg:Calendars merlin$ mv Calendar\ Cache Calendar\ Cache.bak
smeg:Calendars merlin$ mv Calendar\ Cache~1 Calendar\ Cache~1.bak

If you found this page because you have hit this problem, then I hope this helps.

-Chris

Posted by ChrisKnight on 5/29/2008 at 9:08 am under Geek Bits.
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