I was thinking back to one of my favorite comics this morning as I danced around the room. There are certain songs that make me just dance around like there is no one else in the world. Out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of my grooving and it made me write… Wind and branches Arms Grasshoppers and ants Feet Squint and squished Eyes Hula-hoop and grind ...
I formatted my iPod recently and noticed that Songbird still thought the Library had media on it. Loading up a factory restore didn’t help. To clear the iPod cache here is the location: In the profiles directory you will see a db folder. Remove all iPod* folders and restart Songbird. Now the Library will show the blankness that is your iPod.
Why stop a geeky tradition?! Here is 2008’s travel graphs. This year I did hit the 2 full trips around the Earth. I am not sure what 2009 holds, but I had a 30% increase in travel and I only have 17% to go before it is a full 100. Here is last years stats: Travel Days for 2007
Here is my quick secure guide for MySQL: Rename root user account mysql -u root -p use mysql; update user set user=”mydbadmin” where user=”root”; flush privileges; Set the root password for database mysqladmin -u mydbadmin password ‘the-new-password’ Drop default test database mysql -u mydbadmin -p drop database test; quit; Edit the MySQL server config vi /etc/my.cnf and under [mysqld] skip-networking <– Disables network access set-variable=local-infile=0 <– prevent against unauthorized reading from local files bind-address=127.0.0.1 restart mysql /etc/init.d/mysqld restart
I LOVE SONGBIRD, but it wouldn’t recognize my iPod Shuffle. I use this one to workout and need hopping tunes to keep my miles time down. If you have an iPod that refuses to be recognized here is the fix: Connect iPod Open terminal cd /Volumes/$IPOD_NAME where IPOD_NAME is obviously the name of your iPod visible on the desktop rm -rf /Volumes/$IPOD_NAME/iPod_Control Restart Songbird Done!