Angry Dome

The ambassador at vintage cocktail lounge, best new use of...

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:16:12 -0700

The ambassador at vintage cocktail lounge, best new use of absinthe

Netflix Error Code: N8156-6013

Fri, 21 May 2010 21:58:48 -0700

If you have updated silverlight recently, and now can’t playback netflix streaming content, getting an error message such as N8156-6013:

You can fix it by simply deleting the “Playready” folder located in /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/ and reloading your browser of choice.

Apparently the media keys or similar file used to authorize your account aren’t readable by the newer version of Silverlight, or they weren’t updated along with the plugin update. Either way, deleting that folder and reloading my MST3K fixed the issue for me.

So the Flash 10.1 RC Installer (which sometimes asks you to...

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:29:00 -0700

So the Flash 10.1 RC Installer (which sometimes asks you to force quit the finder), is actually a wrapper around a standard Apple OS X .pkg installer. Just right (or control) click, and select Show Package Contents, and browse to Contents/Resources.

Not only can you install the plugin this way (and skip the “Flash Installation Manager” it tries to install as well), I did it just now with Safari open as I was writing this. And it worked ok (even loading the adobe flash version checker page showed the right version), but you will probably want to quit / reload your browser before you go off to youtube or something.

iPhone HD photos?

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:24:02 -0700

iPhone HD photos?:

These may be fake or just mock ups, but it sure does look pretty.

10.6.3 v1.1 Server Combo Update

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:34:00 -0700

If you have updated your servers to 10.6.3 recently (or just installed a server fresh), you will want to make sure you have installed the v1.1 version of the combo update. The old build didn’t include the /usr/sbin/serialnumberd fix for the multiple nics causing serial number issues (Apple KBase ts2959). Just like with 10.5.8v1.1, the v1.1 update wont show as available for server running the 10.6.3 update, so you wont know if you need to run the update until you get a serial number error (which is not exactly a friendly way to help us sysadmins).

You can tell if you need to run the 10.6.3 v1.1 update by using md5 on your /usr/sbin/serialnumberd

(/usr/sbin/serialnumberd) = cdb6ed2faa6f4cb32a01d67d7a28e395

Is the proper md5 hash for the 10.6.3 v1.1 update, along with the a server updated to 10.6.2 then ran the 10.6.3 update.

For reference, the build number of the os after the supplemental update is 10D578.

More Useless Fliers

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:28:30 -0700

More Useless Fliers:

My friend Josh created thinkstank which begat this.

Disable iWork registration nag screen

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:59:54 -0800

Simple way to disable the iWork registration prompt:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork09 RegistrationHasBeenSent true

Gladstones bar in LAX, Virgin / Alaska terminal. Cosmopolitan...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:15:35 -0800

Gladstones bar in LAX, Virgin / Alaska terminal.

Cosmopolitan is mostly vodka, but it is their “special”, so worthy of investigation. Not a bad drink (not a value either).

Recreate the LKDC in 10.6 in one command

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:43:00 -0800

Delete /var/db/.configureLocalKDC and reboot.

(Or if you are creating the image, make sure to remove this from the .dmg before deploying)

(Or if didn’t notice this until you deployed a few hundred machines, you can use ARD to just push a unix command as root, rm /var/db/.configureLocalKDC)

Scenery passing on my train ride to Chicago for advanced camp.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:55:00 -0800

Scenery passing on my train ride to Chicago for advanced camp.

Quick way to review Affinities for your SAN

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:57:07 -0800

I still haven’t gotten around to cleaning up this space, but a quick one liner to let you see all your folder affinities in one place, compliments of the find command and cvaffinity.

From the terminal, run the following:

find /Volumes/SANNAME -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec cvaffinity -l '{}' \;

And now you have a nice list showing you the affinity set to each folder, up to 1 level deep, on the volume SANNAME. If you want to go more granular, increase maxdepth to 2,3,etc.

And if you want to change an affinity on a folder after it has files in it, sometimes the files will not be moved to the new affinity, but you can let snfsdefrag do that for you (note: this can negatively impact your performance while the command is running, use the affinity name as labeled in your volume .cfg file, have backups, etc. etc.):

snfsdefrag -vr -k Affinity -m 0 /Volumes/SANNAME/foldertochange

Test post

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:04:14 -0800

Here

At the backlot bar in LAX, southwest / us airways...

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:16 -0700

At the backlot bar in LAX, southwest / us airways terminal.

Sandwich was palatable, and one can’t go wrong with 24ozes of sam Adams for the 16oz price.

Beer

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:39:53 -0700

Beer

A short test rant

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:39:21 -0700

Playing with the iPhone app