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Re: Snow Leopard - Remove MobileMe / iSync menu bar icon

facebook-636175747 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:12:32 -0000

Actually, I just checked and parallels has released a new build to cover a lot of the snow leopard problems... so maybe I can finally update. woot woot! :)

Re: Snow Leopard - Remove MobileMe / iSync menu bar icon

facebook-636175747 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:08:43 -0000

Windows kidding aside... only parallels 4.0 will run with Snow Leopard. Even it won't run in 64-bit mode. To get a stable parallels install you have to boot snow leopard in 32-bit mode. :(

Re: Snow Leopard - Remove MobileMe / iSync menu bar icon

qmchenry — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:01:11 -0000

I thought it was an old version of parallels.. 2.5 maybe? I think that might be the version that would let you run Win 3.1. This is all hypothetical, anyway because... Windows? Really? :-P

Re: Google Reader: Use the Send to Feature to Share Posts in Other Services Like Twitter and Facebook

davak — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:52:45 -0000

Hey, Quinn! Welcome to TechRx! ;)

Re: Google Reader: Use the Send to Feature to Share Posts in Other Services Like Twitter and Facebook

qmchenry — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:21:03 -0000

That's really cool! I was wishing for this exact functionality last week.

Re: Using iPhone 3G S Voice Control Commands

Mike — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:22:35 -0000

Arg,.. I like the old way of just holding the home button while the application was running .. it used to shut down applications gone astray very nicely.

Oh well.

Re: Using iPhone 3G S Voice Control Commands

qmchenry — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:08:06 -0000

There doesn't appear to be a way to turn it off (other than an option when the phone is locked with a passcode). But there is still a way to force quit an application that's gone astray:

Press and hold the power button (top of iPhone) until the red "slide to power off" slider appears (a few seconds). Then press and hold the home button for a few seconds until the home screen reappears.

Re: MySQL: Use CONCAT to include text in SELECT results | MySQL | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:17:42 -0000

Oops! Sorry about that! It's been fixed now. We had to fix hundreds of posts when we migrated to a new CMS, but this one escaped detection! Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: Tar and compress a file in one step

qmchenry — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:11:34 -0000

it would be:

tar -cf - /home/eaips/var/fileName | gzip -c > /home/eaips/var/fileName.tar.gz

Re: Solve PHP error: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent | PHP programming | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:15:34 -0000

Your database query may not be returning a valid result. It's good practice to make sure the result returned from your mysql_query command is valid.. something like:

if (!$result) {
die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
}

Dumping the error message may help in this case, too.

Good luck!

Re: Mac OS X gain root/superuser access using sudo | Mac system administration | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:45:54 -0000

Yeah, a prompt ending with a hash # symbol usually denotes root's shell prompt.

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim | UNIX | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:14:57 -0000

Sure thing -- just add

:set number

to the file .vimrc in your home directory.

Sometime when you get bored, type :set all while in vim.. it'll show you all the available options. Chances are if there's some behavior you don't like in vim, you can tweak it.

Re: OS X: Easily edit hidden configuration files with TextEdit | Mac system administration | Tech-Recipes

Aron Grinshtein — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:43:31 -0000

Thanks I was trying to set up RoR using Dan Benjamins install and you helped me figure out how to find the .profile file. Thanks.

Re: Leopard: Recovering from a Dock Disaster (Like accidentally dragging a large number of files to the dock instead of a folder)

qmchenry — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:08:49 -0000

I totally clicked through to see if there was a screenshot... :-)

Actually, though, backing up the dock config is a great idea. It actually seems like it could be a cool way to maintain several different dock configs.

Re: PHP: Create a File on your Server | PHP programming | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:11:10 -0000

Thanks andy -- I've fixed the post.

Re: Google Chrome: Use a Command Line Switch to Open in Incognito Mode

qmchenry — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:46:34 -0000

For those of us fortunate Mac-only rock stars who might be a teensy bit jealous that Google doesn't love us enough to share the new browser wealth, what is incognito mode?

Re: Find and delete all core files | UNIX | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:57:16 -0000

I like that! Nice bit of code. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Solve PHP error: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent | PHP programming | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:00:39 -0000

That's great -- thanks for sharing! I haven't run into this before, but now that you point it out, it makes sense.

Re: Find a file by name in UNIX/Solaris/Linux | UNIX | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:30:32 -0000

Yeah, totally. Normal output goes to "standard output" which can be redirected with normal measures. It's actually a nice thing that those messages are sent to "standard error" so you can redirect those but keep the more interesting responses.

find / -name something 2> /dev/null

Re: OS X: Easily edit hidden configuration files with TextEdit | Mac system administration | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:44:50 -0000

Try looking for .bash_profile in your home directory (/Users/yourusername/.bash_profile). In my Leopard install, .bash_profile is used. I don't have a Tiger (version 10.4) installation around to check, but I suspect this may have changed in Leopard. I have both files in my home directory, but I checked and only .bash_profile is used when a shell starts.

It isn't a problem if the file doesn't exist. You can create the file in your home directory and it will work. To make sure that it is working, you can place a temporary echo command in the file, something like:

echo "running .bash_profile!"

When you run the Terminal app to start a shell, you should see that text printed out.

Re: Word 2007: Shrink Your Document by One Page

qmchenry — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:20:40 -0000

Oh, man, that bugs, me, too. All apps should do that. Actually, all printer drivers should do that or have that option. The worst for me is when I print something and get an otherwise blank sheet at the end with header/footer (that I didn't really want to begin with). Nice find in the forest of options that is Word.

Re: Facebook: Email Photos from your Cellphone to your Account

davak — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:47:22 -0000

Oh, yeah, you are right! SMS/Text messaging rates shouldn't come into play. Thanks for the correction.

Re: Facebook: Email Photos from your Cellphone to your Account

qmchenry — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:39:57 -0000

These are emails, not text messages, right? Still dependent on your plan and you should check first, but most plans don't charge per email, only per text message. Or am I missing something?

Re: How to empty or clear the contents of an existing UNIX file | UNIX | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:33:42 -0000

Nice.

Re: Redirect to another web page using PHP | PHP programming | Tech-Recipes

qmchenry — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:48:15 -0000

Thanks Robin! We recently migrated to WordPress and some of our code blocks didn't quite make it.