Month: October 2007

Recover from a ‘Library is locked’ iTunes error

Ran into this on Nicole's new laptop. The reason was because I had used cygwin rsync to copy over our documents from the old laptop and the iTunes Library.itl file ended up getting marked as read-only. macosxhints.com has this...

Windows

Vista Junction Points

Nicole has a new laptop with Windows Vista and it's been a bit of an adjustment. One thing that has been a bit confusing is that Vista has changed some of the familiar folders like "Documents and Settings" ("Users" is the new...

Windows

Solving rsync hangs with Cygwin

I was using Cygwin rsync on our two Windows laptops to copy our files over from the old laptop to the new laptop. Invariably, the rsync would copy a handful of files and then hang. Restarting the rsync would copy a few more files...

General

My last name is Error

I was trying to refill a prescription at Lucky's using their automated phone system. It ended with this: The first 4 letters of the last name on file are "Error - missing value". Is this correct?

General

PageRank 0

I changed my site's domain a month ago so that my old site http://marc.abramowitz.info does a permanent (301) redirect to my new site: http://marc-abramowitz.com but the old site still has a PageRank of 6 (according to...

ProgrammingPython

reviewboard – Google Code

Just started using this at work for code reviews and it looks impressive and useful so far. reviewboard - Google Code Incidentally, it's written in Python, using Django.

Books

The Fall of Hyperion

Back in May, I read Hyperion, the first book in a renowned 4-part sci-fi series from Dan Simmons (official site). This weekend, I finished The Fall of Hyperion. This book continues the story of the Shrike pilgrims from the first...