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Re: Blackberry: How to Change Your Wallpaper

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:33:29 -0000

Trying out the comments..

Re: Blackberry: How to Change Your Wallpaper

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:08:44 -0000

Oh, yeah, totally agree. Awesome screenshots.

Re: Trying To Make Sense of The Brokerage Bust

Quinn McHenry — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:57:19 -0000

While those displaced by this are unlikely to appreciate the analogy, I like your darwinistic spin on capitalism and the upbeat message of your post. I had a great discussion yesterday (the kind where lips moved instead of fingers, if you can believe it) the gist of which was "if a computer can do your job, you have a bad job." Not exactly in line with the financial services condition, but in both cases you should be able to feel the looming obsolescence of your job role. This has been a long time coming and, as you allude, is necessary for our society to survive in the long run.

Re: Decompress and extract a tgz or tar.gz archive in a single step

Quinn McHenry — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:48:42 -0000

Oh, yeah, I'll admit that command is easier, although back in 2003 it only seemed to work in some linux distros. I was using Solaris (probably 7 at the time) and that tar didn't have that cool option. I don't have a Solaris box handy now, but I would be surprised if that hadn't crept its way in yet.

Should be noted that 'j' in place of 'z' in your command will extract a bz2 archived tar file. J. Really. I guess all the appropriate letters were on vacation.

Re: Mac OS X install gcc compiler

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:51:38 -0000

Keep looking down the list.. you'll need a version 2.x of the developer tools. Like this:

Xcode 2.5 Developer Tools
Xcode 2.5 is an update release of Xcode developer tools, providing bug fixes over Xcode 2.4.1. Xcode 2.5 can be installed on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) or on Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5).

Re: Search for text in vi or vim

Quinn McHenry — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:51:32 -0000

I bet there is a slick way to do that, but I honestly don't know that way. My technique is to search for something else that doesn't exist in the file..

/jkdsjklsd

will do the trick. If someone else knows the guru way, please let us know! I'd love to know how, too.

Re: iPhone Programming: Set UITableView Accessory Arrow Style

Quinn McHenry — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:50:07 -0000

Whoo! Nice catch of my dysclipboardpastia syndrome. I fixed the recipe accordingly. Thank you!

Re: Redirect to another web page using PHP

Quinn McHenry — 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.

Re: How to empty or clear the contents of an existing UNIX file

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

Nice.

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

Quinn McHenry — 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: Word 2007: Shrink Your Document by One Page

Quinn McHenry — 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: OS X: Easily edit hidden configuration files with TextEdit

Quinn McHenry — 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: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

Quinn McHenry — 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: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent

Quinn McHenry — 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 and delete all core files

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

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

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

Quinn McHenry — 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: PHP: Create a File on your Server

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

Thanks andy -- I've fixed the post.

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

Quinn McHenry — 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: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Quinn McHenry — 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: Mac OS X gain root/superuser access using sudo

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

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

Re: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent

Quinn McHenry — 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: Tar and compress a file in one step

Quinn McHenry — 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: MySQL: Use CONCAT to include text in SELECT results

Quinn McHenry — 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: Using iPhone 3G S and iPhone 4 Voice Control Commands

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

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

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