Aug

29

I am hoping someone out there can help me. I have a file on my system that I can not delete. I have tried secure empty trash, trash with shift+option, rm -f filename, even tools like ForceEmptyTrash and TicklerTools. Nothing is able to remove this file. I can’t even get the file permissions or data info on the file.


It shows up in the Finder until you click on it, and then it disappears. Notice it has no file size. It actually used to live in an old bundle that got renamed and removed during an automatic upgrade of TextMate. I tried emptying my trash today and the status bar just froze. At first, I tried deleting the app and the finder would hang. So I went in to see what could be causing it. Oddly enough, an ls (of any kind) on the directory just hangs as well. I was hoping I could change the name and file permissions and get rid of it, but I am unable to do anything with the file (if it is even a file at all).

If I open TextEdit and browse to the directory the file is in, the file name is shown, but gets hung on calculating size when I try and highlight it. Opening the directory in the finder, shows the file name like shown above, but as soon as you click on it, it disappears. Right clicking on it, allows me to chose open, but nothing happens. I’ve tried creating another file in the directory with the same name and trying to delete it, but that doesn’t work either it just deletes the new file and leaves this old remnant behind.

How the heck do I delete a file that appears to be there, but isn’t?

Aug

28

I’ve finally decided to setup an account on a shared server environment and consolidate all the domains I control. After some research, I chose to go with TextDrive.

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Aug

24

Details for a local IT get together:A group of technology professionals and enthusiasts in Fort Wayne, Indiana are gathering for an initial event appropriately named: Geek Dinner. The first Geek Dinner will be a meet and greet happy hour. This gathering is for you if you have an interest in operating systems, databases, programming, web design, mashups, have a blog, and are obsessed with Flickr. The Geek Dinners will help define a greater presence of the Web and IT in Fort Wayne. This is an open invitation, please feel free to bring your colleagues and friends. Here are the details:Event: Geek DinnerWhen: Monday, October 2, 6pmWhere: Club SodaThis event is also posted on upcoming.org:http://upcoming.org/event/100766

Aug

23


Looking for BREW and Symbian software device developers! Are you looking to join an up-and-coming company developing cool technology? Do you want to be on the technological forefront in mobile technology? Our client is looking for an exceptional, energetic senior software design engineer to join their development team. All team members are expected to solve complex issues end-to-end. They expect each team to own the solutions i.e. design, development, implementation, documentation and maintenance. Successful candidates will have experience working with one or all of the following areas of expertise: wireless and/or embedded development, as well as client/server applications development. Responsibilities include software product design and development in a shipping product environment. Candidates will have 5 years software development experience with a demonstrated proficiency in C and C++ and experience with XML and HTML and Mobile device software development experience in one of the following operating systems, ?BREW? or ?Symbian?. Candidates will have a demonstrated record of strong problem solving and communication skills and will be a self-motivated individual contributor, a team player and out-of-box, creative thinker.

If this position describes you, please forward your resume to: dbenveniste At kforce Dot com

Aug

22

I would just like to publicly endorse 37 Signal’s Writeboard. I’ve been using it a lot lately. I’ve been putting thoughts together on a number of things including white papers and apps I am going to be building. Collaborating is a breeze and couldn’t be any easier. Rock!

Aug

22

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of posts around Dave Winer’s initiative to mobilize RSS feeds for his Blackberry. Great idea! However, I’ve been doing this for years. I worked on a project for Qualcomm back in 2001, doing the first ever EVDO trial in the States. Part of the project was building a content portal. At the time we didn’t include RSS and were just harvesting mobile formatted sites and games. A couple of years ago, I added RSS and I am even adding more functionality today. Soon I’ll have a real release under a very mobile friendly domain.

If you would like to use the portal as it stands today, just go to mikekrisher.com with your mobile device (Pocket PC, Smartphone, or Symbian device). Support for Blackberry and Treo coming soon.

I appreciate what Dave Winer has done with XML and RSS. The man clearly has vision. I’m happy to see that someone of his caliber is pushing RSS on mobile devices, it makes perfect sense.

Aug

19

Under the guidance of my superior, Sean ‘bash script’ Brown, I set out this afternoon to get Rails and PHP 5 running under Apache 2 on my Fedora 4 development server. I already had Apache with PHP5 running, so I jumped in during the fcgi download step. One of the only changes I had to make was changing the top path to reflect where I already had Apache installed. Only other change was, I had to add a LoadModule call for the FastCGI module in my Apache config file. As so:

LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so

I also had to change some file permissions that were not owned by Apache. Thanks to this post on Rails Forum.

Lastly, I wanted my Rails apps running on port 81, so I had to edit Apache config to listen to port 81, and set up the Rails app virtual host to use 81 as well.

All worked easily and I now feel my development server is complete. Let the building begin!

P.S. Listening to Thom Yorke’s album ‘The Eraser’ while doing so, totally set the mood.

Aug

19

Congrats to my fellow Fort Wayne native, Zach Klein, and his company Connected Ventures. They were purchased by InterActiveCorp earlier this week. I’m including Zach’s post below, it says it all.

Very very cool for a group of four guys getting together and simply making something. I have much respect.

Zach, next time your in Fort Wayne, the first celebratory round is on me.

– Mike


Connected Ventures + IAC:
My partners and I are proud to finally announce that we have sold a majority stake in our company to Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp, which spun off Expedia last year and currently owns TicketMaster, Bloglines, Ask, Evite, Match, and many successful others.

Having grown CV from a startup to a sustainable business, we’re now curious just how far we can take this. Admittedly, only a couple of years out of school, we knew we couldn’t do it alone, and are excited to have been matched with Mr. Diller and the talent he has assembled on his end — people like Michael Jackson, their president of programming, once the executive at BBC responsible for Da Ali G Show and Trading Spaces, who most recently chiefed USA Networks.

Friends have asked me whether we are moving — nope, we’re staying in the same spot, just a few floors above our apartment. Little else is changing. We still don’t have to dress up for work, but now our kitchen cabinents are filled with snacks. Best of both worlds, really.

Oh, and I guess you can technically buy stock in us now, since we’re part-owned by a public company. Point your broker to ticker IACI.

Finally, I thank those, especially my best friends and family, who have advised and encouraged me so thoughtfully over the past few years. And, most importantly, thank you Jakob, Josh and Ricky for inviting me into our partnership and this opportunity. We did good.

See also:
» Official Press Release
» Lots of news stories
» Screenshot of Bloomberg terminals on Wall Street

Aug

11

Via MocoNews, I see that Viacom and Adobe have entered into an agreement on using Flash for online video distribution (didn’t realize that needed an agreement), but the deal included FlashCast. Obviously, I’m interested.

My first question is, did Viacom come into a licensing agreement to distribute the Flash Lite player (which enables FlashCast)? Otherwise, how would the MTV generation get the client installed on their phone? Viacom MVNO perhaps? I’m interested in hearing more details on this one. The only other FlashCast deployments that I know of went through the carriers, which control the handsets. Viacom doesn’t own/control any handsets so I am interested in hearing how the player is going to be distributed.

Aug

5

I like the overall view of this article. Mobile phone interfaces as hard to use for the majority of people. Good interfaces cited include the iPod of course. Difference being that the iPod doesn’t do as much as a smartphone does. Mobile 2.0 should be all about the interface.

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