Just another (NERD?) weblog

Recently I installed iTunes 10 on my Mac, but the streaming server function from my server broke. I could see the server, but when I clicked to open the shared device, I couldn’t see a song. After some research, I came across this explanation someone (a developer which works with the package) gave:

I found that my dmapd had the same problem as mt-daapd when it came to interoperability with iTunes 10. It seems that iTunes 10 requires aeMK/com.apple.itunes.mediakind included in the response to a “GET /databases/1/items.” Ensuring that dmapd included this in its response fixed the server’s ability to work with iTunes 10. As it has been pointed out, forked-daapd already does this.

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Apple came up with Safari 5 last week, it has some nice features like Reader, Extentions and DNS Prefetching, but also some pretty annoying things like the URL Completion list. It doesn’t work that well because it searches in your history on URLs, but also on the name of a website.
It’s turned on by default and there is no option to turn it off in Safari’s preferences. Though it is easy to turn them off, in the Terminal.
Fire it up and type

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari5IncludeFancyURLCompletionList -bool NO

Now restart Safari, clean your history, and you should get rid of that nasty completion.

Update: seems it does not work…

Hey, guys. Is there an easy way to split an array of 100 integers for example and write 3 numbers per line separated by whitespace into a file ?
#include “realeasyfunctions.h” / Split100intArrayWrite3xLineWithWhitespaceInto(FILE* f);

from bash.org

Because somebody asked me to search some people to do this,I decided to put it on my blog too and hope that there is some reaction on it.

If you have access to an iPhone and/or iPod Touch, try playing the first 30 seconds of Big Buck Bunny encoded with 7 reference frames (4.5MB). Please report using the comments below:

- Your hardware type (2G, 3G, 3GS, Touch, …)
- Your model number (Settings -> General -> About -> Model)
- Your version number (Settings -> General -> About -> Version)
- Does it play with or without artifacts
Anything else that might be important

Follow this flowchart and you’ll know it!
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