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  • MacBook Air and Belkin 4-port Travel USB Hub

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    Well, the MacBook Air has a single USB port and I thought this wouldn’t be too much of a problem because I’d just buy a 4-port travel hub. Little did I realize how often the MacBook Air requires that you plug in directly otherwise things don’t work. So beware, here…

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  • iPhone cannot restore error 6 , -50, etc.

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    Wow, my iPhone got wedged with the Apple logo coming up and then the spinning wheel going on forever. This is apparently fairly common and there are not “many”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1343270&tstart=45 good resolutions for “error (6)”:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307120 or “unknown error (-50)”:http://forums.ilounge.com/archive/index.php/t-159056.html All the resolutions come down it seems to a single thing: #…

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  • Syslogd runaway

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    On my Macbook, suddenly syslogd is running away. Seems like http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071030233438149 suggests that this is because of Tie Machine, even though I have it switched off. You can go and kill it with /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor and hopefully the new instance won’t go crazy. In my case, I did this and…

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  • MacBook Air crashes with parallels

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    i just had these problems. With Parallels, you get a kernel panic and the equivalent of the blue screen of death. What happens is you get the message to hit the power button in a nice window floating on top. It’s never been a problem with the Macbook Pro or…

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  • Rewriting the Anagram program

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    As Calvin pointed out, its a pain to do the string length and other calculations, so I went back and rewrote the anagram calculation using the prime number trick. That is, assign a prime to each letter from ‘a’ to ‘z’, then you can easily tell if two words are…

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  • iPhone stuck at spinning wheel

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    Sigh, I’ve had this happen three times now, when I install a bunch of applications and press the HOME button to get back, the iPhone comes up with a spinning wheel and won’t stop. When I turn it on, the apple logo comes up and the spinning wheel is under…

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  • Anagram Solver

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    Calvin wants to solve anagrams. There are lots of great programs out there, but not much source. “Gtoal.com”:http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/anagrams.html has a good list of source code that is out there, but its hard to find a simple program. “Gtanag.mai”:http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/anagrams/gtanag.mai is perhaps the simplest program that is a C program. I’m sure…

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  • Zenphoto

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    OK, finally flopped Nextgen Gallery for ZenPhoto even though I can’t get the widget to work. But, let’s try integration. First, you should see a “Photos”:https://richtong.org/zenphoto button now at the top. You do need a password to see anything though 🙂 But to get it to actually integrate into the…

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  • WordPress Widgets

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    Quick review of widgets and WordPress. BTW, does anyone think the WordPress 2.5 is confusing compared with 2.3? sticking the really important plugins and settings to the right to be confusing and there are so many entries under Manage it makes no sense to me. h2. Thumbs up: * WordPress…

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  • Rainy Maui

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    What to do on a “rainy”:http://www.hawaiiweathertoday.com/?page_id=20 day in Maui, well thank goodness for the Internet: “Hawaii Show Time”:http://www.hawaiishowtime.com/Movies/index.asp?Isle=2. 10,000 BC looks good as does Nim’s Island. 1:30 and 1:45 shows or Horton hears a Who at 3:45, but the wind is picking up and “Beaufort scale”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale#The_modern_scale is 4-5. Snorkeling is…

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