Month: August 2007
Safari beta 3 and PDFs issues macosxhints.com – A fix for Safari 3 beta crashes on PDF links
macosxhints.com – A fix for Safari 3 beta crashes on PDF links:
Safari 3 Beta kept crashing on PDF links for me. I found and removed an old Adobe PDF viewer plug-in, and all is well again. Use the Finder’s search feature to locate AdobePDFViewer.plugin (it should probably be found in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/), and delete it. Restart Safari 3, and the crashes may be gone.
My problem was more like this response:
I had a similar problem. Although Safari wouldn’t crash when opening a pdf the file would never open (Safari would just present a blank grey window). The culprit turned out to be the Acrobat 8 plugin. Removing it solved the problem.
Might also be worth invoking
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES
with Safari shut down.
But I can say that moving the plugin aside (I never use Acrobat and I think that must have gotten installed by mistake at some point) solved.
controlled substances
Yesterday morning I walked around the corner to Neils Yard Dairy and bought myself 200g. of the Montgomery’s unpasteurized cheddar.
Asked for it by name. The clerk, in a proper cheeseman’s cap, wrapped my interestingly discoloured wedge in that special white paper they use, glossy on the inside, folding it that way I can never quite master.
Now it’s 5:23AM PST, back in Vancouver, and the Montgomery’s cheddar really *is* a sovereign medicine for jet lag. And that is the reason it costs almost as much as heroin, in America.
US$30.50/lb? I’ve been right near where they make it, too: cheeses are consistently good round those parts.
“You never roll out a new product in August”
I think I liked it better when September meant new models from the car manufacturers and new TV schedules.
Today I received a message from a friend who has excellent connections in Washington and whose information has often been prescient. According to this report, as in 2002, the rollout will start after Labor Day, with a big kickoff on September 11. My friend had spoken to someone in one of the leading neo-conservative institutions. He summarized what he was told this way:
They [the source’s institution] have “instructions” (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this–they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is “plenty.”Of course I cannot verify this report. But besides all the other pieces of information about this circulating, I heard last week from a former U.S. government contractor. According to this friend, someone in the Department of Defense called, asking for cost estimates for a model for reconstruction in Asia. The former contractor finally concluded that the model was intended for Iran. This anecdote is also inconclusive, but it is consistent with the depth of planning that went into the reconstruction effort in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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And these are the ones who understand all that complicated money stuff
I’m sure I speak for the majority of Americans when I say that I don’t know how Tony Snow managed to survive on a mere $168,000 a year for so long. The suffering, it’s heartbreaking.
Why am I [leaving] — because I ran out of money. A lot of people at home are saying, well, what do you mean, you make all this money. Well, you know what, I made more money when I was in my previous career. And I made the decision not to say to my wife and kids, you know, we’ve finally saved up all this money and done these things, and you’re just going to have to give them away so Daddy can work at the White House. We took out a loan when I came to the White House, and that loan is now gone. So I’m going to have to pay the bills.
Look, I can see how someone (especially with health issues) might feel like they should grab an opportunity that would make them more money so they can save up a nest egg for their family. But to do it in a way that sounds like you’re crying poverty when you’re giving up a position of power that allows you to influence policy that could help people who are really in poverty is bullshit.
I have a hard time understanding how $168K isn’t enough to stay solvent in Washington or environs, without drawing down savings. And what does that say about the financial acumen of the repugnicans?
annals of bright shiny distractions
Yet More Prius iPhone Blogging!:
How does one rack up a high score playing Prius: The Videogame?
The instinctive strategy is to try to minimize the percentage of the time the gasoline engine is on.
But that cannot be right.
More to the point, when will we see the first fatal accident that can be attributed to nerds paying too much attention to the energy generator display or their all-singing all-dancing telephone? Or have we already and I missed it?
quote of the day
Our wretched private healthcare system has turned us into a nation of spiteful and small-minded misanthropes.
links for 2007-08-31
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this was a crummy story and the Atlanta papers should have cleared it up long ago: I hope they pay for their role in this at the upcoming trial.
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when food preservation becomes entombment . . .
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another observation on the shrinking GOP. if all that remains is the base, it will be along time before we another GOP president. 28% won’t do it.
mucho musical meta data
beaTunes ~ build better playlists:
What started out as a BPM detection tool for DJs, runners and dancers, has become one of the finest iTunesâ„¢ library management tools around.
beaTunes’ powerful inspection feature let’s you clean up your iTunes track data in a way unrivaled by any other software on the market today. Easily find typos or different spellings of artists’ names, automatically fill in the album artist names, and much more. No more R.E.M. and REM in your iPod’s artist list!beaTunes can even help you to find the titles of tracks that have no artist or title associated with them.
And once you have a clean collection, the built-in playlist generator works even better.
Experimenting with this tool. It might take the 2 week trial just to get through my library, but it has some seriously helpful features. I like the name normalization a lot, especially as it hunts up the anomalies for you, rather than expecting you to do it. Not sure how well the BPM stuff works, but it has been a wish of mine to have some good BPM data for exercise purposes. My early impressions aren’t all that strong: it assigned 192 bpm to a full album of Richard Thompson and it’s safe to say he wouldn’t get through a dozen tracks at the same pace.
I’m not sure what the color of music has to do with anything, but it claims to be able to derive it. More as it gets down to business.
things to see in Brooklyn
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
One of those guys I need to know more about. The geodesic dome, fly-eye dome, dymaxion car, all fascinate: maybe this is the place to learn more, at last.