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callocon Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar

Sure, they can hold my shipments and destroy them, and I'd have to refund my customers money, but that wouldn't mean they could bring a lawsuit against my company because I was shipping something completely legal in my country to a country where it was not legal (if I had known, off course it wouldn't matter, but how can I be required to read up on US law to run my business).

callocon Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar

Except I don't have a warehouse in the United States. All I have is widgets located in Europe, I put them in a box and I ship them using parcel post to anyone anywhere in the world.

Yet you are saying that I am now beholden to US law because I interacted with a customer located in the United States ...

callocon Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar

So if I have a European company that sells widgets online, and I ship to the United States I now have to comply with US laws at my expense?

callocon Headphones for Hackers

I've got a pair of Sennheiser HD-490 Live's which use the same ear cushion as the HD-495 and I can't find any place online that sells them.

It may just be time to bite the bullet and purchase a new pair of headphones. It is not like they haven't given me my moneys worth and then some!

callocon TV is broken

Hold on ... Hulu has download limits in the middle of watching a program? I've watched Hulu from 5 AM till 5 PM almost uninterrupted, the only interruption is between shows they will say "You've been watching for 3 hours, are you sure you don't want to take a break?". That repeats every two hours or so.

Yes, the commercials can be grating, and are still annoying but I think that is a small price to pay for streaming my content when I want. Also they are not NEARLY as long as the commercials on TV and if a TV commercial is really loud (I'm looking at you eHarmony commercial) and you complain they will actually do something about it.

Hulu may have its limitations because of stupid studio rules, but overall the experience of watching content online with Hulu is pretty straightforward and easy.

callocon Headphones for Hackers

They seem to have missed out on Pioneer cans ...

I have the Pioneer SE-MJ71 steel wheel series headphones. I've used Pioneer headphones for a long time as a DJ, they have excellent response and range and for daily wear work perfectly. One thing I have noticed is that when I am wearing them while working that you need to pump very little volume into them (slide the volume slider all the way down) to get large and expressive sound. I've thought about getting an external volume control in line with the 3.5mm to be able to control it even better.

At home I also have an older Sennheiser headset that I don't use nearly as much anymore because the foam has deteriorated so bad that the plastic casing is pressing into my head when I have them on (which frankly is uncomfortable). I've wanted to get a replacement for a while. The one thing I absolutely love about the Sennheiser cans is that they came with a REALLY long headphone wire, and can be unplugged from the headphones and from the computer (So when I've accidentally stepped on the cord or spin around in my chair I don't send stuff flying!). They have gone through years of use, I've had them since I was 12... I am now 25. If I could get new foam pads for it I would do so in a heartbeat.

callocon Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Rojadirecta.org

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/court-refuses-give-sei...

The domain has still not been returned.

callocon New Features in Xcode 4.3

man xcrun man xcode-select

The tools are already available, just not in the normal path locations. Also if you are modifying the files installed by the CLT installer such that they get messed up you are doing it wrong.

callocon New Features in Xcode 4.3

I've had a LOT of good experience using clang instead of GCC for compiling a lot of different packages that say they require GCC. Honestly it is no surprise that Apple has stopped shipping an extremely outdated GCC and that they are not including a newer version of GCC due to the GPL v3.

callocon Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew

Actually it does. The binaries are all included in the .app, the secondary installer just places binaries in the various locations around the HD.

Look at man xcrun and man xcode-select. Both of which can be used to switch to different Xcode versions easily. In the future it looks like they are planning on making it easier to switch between different versions of Xcode.

And using xcrun one could set up a build environment for make/config with CXX/CC/and all other environment variables pointing to the right location in your /Applications/Xcode.app/ folder.

One thing I don't understand is why Apple didn't just symlink the various binaries into the Xcode app if the Xcode app is installed, instead of having to download another 170MB file.

callocon Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew

glibc is not used by the base system. So if you installed glibc yourself then the problem is not Apple's.

callocon Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew

Tell ruby to fix their shit and use clang instead.

callocon New Features in Xcode 4.3

Or you can have the user download the command line tools seperately and install those without first downloading Xcode. A 160MB download instead of a 1.72GB download.

callocon New Features in Xcode 4.3

Everything is now contained within the .app, so a re-install is rm -rf /Applications/Xcode.app and then re-install.

The command line tools are easily installed from within Xcode -> Preferences -> Downloads or by downloading the .dmg from Apple's developer website and installing it by hand. Neither are the end of the world.

callocon New Features in Xcode 4.3

If you install Xcode, within Xcode preferences in the Download pane you can have it download and install the command line tools for you. Works perfectly.

After that homebrew works without any issues.

callocon Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store

I was under the impression that dynamically loading code was no longer allowed. Not that apps have to be static, but unless it was part of the .app and signed it won't run in the sandbox.

callocon Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store

Xcode was not distributed through the App Store, an Installer for Xcode was distributed through the App Store.

callocon Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store

If you call `ssh` on the command line it will use Keychain to unlock your private SSH key.

That part is done. The application shouldn't be asking for SSH keys, it is completed already. Just use `ssh` as you would before.

callocon Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

An Apple ID is indeed free. I've had an Apple ID for downloading Xcode for years now. At the moment the only way to get an app signing key is by purchasing a $99 license (which also gets you publishing privileges in the App Store) but it is extremely likely that in the future getting a signing key will be completely free and will not require a $99 license fee. It won't get you App Store submittal and won't get you publishing on the App Store, but I think that is fair.

callocon Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Nope, and you don't have to. But for those users that are new to the platform (and I have watched quite a few) it makes them feel at home. They instantly know where to look for their apps, they can re-arrange them however they like. It is not for those of us who grew up on Mac OS, then Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, it is for those that have had an iPad or an iPhone and know there is a single location (home) where all your apps are. Launchpad fits that bill nicely.

callocon Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

It didn't break Qt, it broke Perian.

That being said, I've got a couple of 8GB MKV's and they all work perfectly. So caveat emptor and all that ... :P

callocon 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.

Thanks for letting me know that the movie is on Netflix. Going to watch it now :-)

callocon Ramos alarm clock

You'd be surprised how fast that alarm clock would stop working ... I'd just forget to plug it in at night :P

callocon Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

You just claimed that Linux hadn't been that way in a while... I just provided a counter-point.

callocon Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

That UNIX environemnt works perfectly well for me as a software developer and I don't see how it compares to Cygwin in ANY way shape or form. All my favourite tools are there and I can install more using homebrew. I build server backend software on Mac OS X and deploy on FreeBSD and soon Linux, I've never had an issue. Cygwin is COMPLETELY different, man is that crap a pain in the balls.

callocon Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

I've never had this happen, and I run Mac OS X on a MacBook Pro 5,5 with 4 GB's of RAM (core2duo at 2.33 Ghz). This laptop is from the mid-2009's.

My default set of apps that I run:

1. Safari 2. Mail.app 3. Terminal.app 4. Adium 5. Twitter 6. iCal 7. X11 8. MacVim 9. GitX 10. Activity Monitor

I have no slow-downs and I regularly compile the entire companies code-base on this little machine. Sure it isn't fast compared to some of the newer monsters out there, but I have had no issues with slow downs what so ever.

That being said, I don't use Chrome, and I don't have DropBox on my work laptop.

I keep hearing about people having really bad slow downs and I just don't understand it. Mac OS X has never been anything but "Just Works" for me.

11:29 up 69 days, 17:34, 11 users, load averages: 1.38 1.24 1.18

callocon Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

Apple's users are not people that dive into the command line. Apple's users are people that open the App Store and have their "package management" solution.

callocon Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

I've had to edit configurations files to get hardware working in the last month.

On a laptop we have here at the office I had to disable a certain driver from loading before a different driver or else the two would squabble over the wifi card and it would never show up.

The other thing that is more software related than hardware is that it is a MS Windows shop, all of the local domains are machine.domainname.local. This conflicts with MDNS as you could imagine, so the Linux machines are unable to access any of the resources on the machines named machine.domainname.local because MDNS would respond with a failure. Had to modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to fix that issue.

Linux is not without its failures. Saying it just works is certainly not the case. Whereas the Mac OS X machines I deploy come out of the box, get configured and are ready to go. Drivers work, software works, don't need to go googling for hours trying to figure out why ping won't resolve a machine.domainname.local address but dig is doing just fine.

callocon Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

I am a software developer and I use Mac OS X. I develop Unix backend server systems. I use Mac OS X as my primary build platform, then actually run on top of FreeBSD.

I use homebrew for almost all of the dependencies that I have, there are one or two that I compile by hand.

I've not had any issues. Best of all, I don't need the g* stuff to do my builds. I am perfectly happy with clang and the BSD tools available.

I don't understand why people purchase Mac OS X based computers then want to run GNU coreutils on top of it, or want to Linuxize their entire install. Off course something is going to break at that point, especially when build tools expect certain versions of certain tools to be available.

callocon Thunderbolt-DMA-land: Hacking Macs through the Thunderbolt interface

It does matter. The OS has to set up the device for DMA in the first place. If the device is never enumerated it just doesn't get access.