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May 27, 2005
10.4.1 kernel panics, RAID and data integrity
I made notes as I went along and I include them below because perhaps some day they will help someone who finds themselvesNotesWell, with the backup finally finished (and earlier than expected because Impression is incapable of splitting large files over more than two DVDs; I had to handle the largest file by hand) it was time to try and get this RAID up and running again.Another boot from the Tiger install DVD and more fruitless clicking in the Disk Utility UI.... I tried "diskutil list", "diskutil destroyRAID /dev/disk2" ("does not appear to be a RAID master"), "diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ Untitled1 disk0" (stalled at "Creating Partition Map"), "diskutil eraseDisk JournaledHFS+ Untitled1 disk0" (also stalled at "Creating Partition Map"), "diskutil eraseDisk JournaledHFS+ Untitled1 disk1" ("Partitioning encountered error Bad file descriptor (9) on disk disk1"), "diskutil partitionDisk disk0 1 JournaledHFS+ Untitled1 10GB" (stalled again), "diskutil partitionDisk disk1 1 JournaledHFS+ Untitled2 10GB", "diskutil repairVolume disk0" ("Error (-9958) encounterd attempting to verify/repair disk0", "diskutil repairVolume disk1" (same error), "diskutil repairVolume disk2" ("Can't open /dev/rdisk2: Resource busy").Next avenue: fsck.
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Posted by wincent at 7:28 AM
May 26, 2005
The Internet: a wretched hive of scum and villany
The Internet is an unedifying place.
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Posted by wincent at 3:10 PM
May 22, 2005
piratewatch.org
I've just launched piratewatch.org, a developer community with one goal: to share information to help one another to efficiently combat piracy. It's an idea I've been mulling over for a while; that pirates have turned "sharing" into a fine art and that perhaps we would do well to use their own weapon against them.
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Posted by wincent at 7:13 PM
May 18, 2005
What's in a name? FileMaker Pro Advanced
I just read this article at rumor site Think Secret, where they claim that "FileMaker Developer" will be renamed to "FileMaker Pro Advanced". I know that some have question why I chose to name my new product "Synergy Advance", but this move by FileMaker seems a little bit ridiculous to me.
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Posted by wincent at 5:09 PM
May 17, 2005
AEGizmo, AEBuildAppleEvent and Mac OS X 10.4
"AEGizmo" is the name for a set of APIs developed by Apple's Jens Peter Alfke between 1991 and 1995.
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Posted by wincent at 2:53 AM
May 10, 2005
GoDaddy vs Network Solutions
Network Solutions' time in the sun has ended. It's GoDaddy's turn now.
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Posted by wincent at 11:32 AM
