A confident secularist society would tolerate school religion -
A very interesting read by an atheist who thinks we should leave school scripture (“special religious education”) alone, and get over ourselves.
I do have to agree with some of the sentiment. Especially since the only socially acceptable intolerance at the moment appears to be intolerance of Christianity actually expressed, in word or deed.
I have just taken my iPad 2 in to an Apple Service Centre for Warranty replacement. What’s wrong? The SIM tray won’t eject. So a whole new device to replace one that is working perfectly except that I can’t get the SIM tray out.
If I didn’t want the engraving, it could be replaced as soon as tomorrow. With the engraving, 7-10 days :-(
A very interesting tidbit I found out is that they didn’t need to fill in the engraving I wanted as it is “in the serial number”. I assume that means that it is associated with my serial number rather than somehow encoded in the string of characters, however, I won’t rule out that completely. (The serial “number” is a 12 character string of uppercase letters and digits representing a 4.73838134 × 1018 address space.)
The most annoying thing though is that I have to replace my Telstra SIM. So I have to wait for the iPad to arrive AND the new SIM card.
How to Migrate Your Facebook Account and Data to Google+ -
When Google+ came out, it’s success was very much up in the air (remember Google Buzz?). However, it seems a lot of people have already thrown themselves into Google+ full force—Facebook may have 750 million users, but Google+ has already crossed the 20 million user milestone in only 30 days.
Recovering A Corrupt OpenLDAP Database On OSX Server -
Just as a reminder for dealing with slapd / open directory issues on OS X server.
Safari 5 (Lion) supports MathML
Lion is far more than just new user interface features. Apple have fundamentally rethought the human computer interaction at a much deeper level. There are radical changes to the nearly thirty year old document model and quite fundamental changes to the human interaction with the process model.
Applications without processes. Processes without applications. Did Lion just blow your mind?
These are very impressive, significant shifts.
If you haven’t read the Ars Technica in depth review of Lion, and you are interested in the geeky underpinnings of the changes, you owe it to yourself to read all 19 pages. John Siracusa has again written the best review out there of a new OS X release.
Lion Resume (system state autosave) just completely surprised me and surpassed my expectations.
My 2006 Mac Book Pro has a battery that has seen better days. It still holds a charge for a reasonable amount of time, but despite trying to recalibrate the System Management Controller, it will suddenly power off, rather than gracefully go to sleep while it thinks it still has some run time.
I had several apps open, including TextWrangler with never saved “Untitled” windows full of text. The laptop just turned off - no warning. Plugged in, rebooted and Lion began opening all the apps I had open and to my surprise, put all the unsaved text in my unsaved documents in TextWrangler.
And no, it wasn’t a built for Lion version. It’s version 3.5.3 from 10 Jan 2011.
I can confirm that Macs without the newer multi-touch trackpads (or an appropriate mouse) only have limited gesture support on Lion. I have a late 2006 Mac Book Pro with an early multitouch trackpad. It basically supports two finger touch but not three, so a lot of the Lion gestures are out.
I must say I’m still getting used to “natural”(!) scrolling. Great on an iPad, feels weird on a trackpad. Perhaps it’s just and adjustment period.
Booting into OS X Lion for the first time after install means spotlight reindexing all volumes. Opening Mail also triggers a full email migration to a new mail database format. This made my MacBook Pro pretty unresponsive for a while. Activity Monitor showed very little CPU utilisation, and a reasonable amount of free memory. Disk activity was clearly the culprit.
Time to disable spotlight for a while.
sudo mdutil -a -i off
To turn spotlight back on
sudo mdutil -a -i on
(Source: osxdaily.com)