Month: August 2010
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-15
- WTF ?!! Military chopper just screamed overhead in #Adelaide parklands!! #
- @PremierMikeRann was that you tearing up the skies in a Blackhawk? #
- @MissPurroxide what is this about cheap xboxs? I’d buy one at that price! #
- @lala_lauren is that an Australian Mist? My girlfriend has 2. Beautiful cats. #
- @lala_lauren does she have a little beard? Look up the breed, they’re gorgeous affectionate cats #
- http://twitpic.com/2ewkyq #
- http://twitpic.com/2ewl7x my little old man, Rogue, enjoying lap time in the sun #
- @MissPurroxide Yes, i was very naughty and grabbed one, bargain price. #
- Very dusty, very hungry, been crawling around my roof for 5 hrs now! #
- @MenzFruChocs I’m excited! Must have showbag I’m sure 🙂 #
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-14
- I’m at San Giorgio (Rundle St, Frome St, Adelaide). http://4sq.com/cH4M3h #
- What camera is that? (@radiostarelle)http://yfrog.com/mi5wwj #
- I think tonight is a Clint Eastwood kinda night. So tell me punk….do you feel lucky? Well, do ya? #
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-13
- @iPaulie I finished Naomi Novik’s “His Majesty’s Dragon” overnight and it was also full of awesomeness! #
- I intend to be a part of unlocking the FourSquare Swarm badge.. help me achieve it! #AdelSwarm See details here: http://bit.ly/cSP77G #
- I’m at The Wakefield Hotel (Wakefield st, Divett Place, Adelaide). http://4sq.com/cYTxGD #
- I’m at Saracen’s Head (Moore Street, Wakefield Street, Adelaide). http://4sq.com/9C5co3 #
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-12
- RIP Claude – http://www.zoossa.com.au/fun-stuff/blogs/births-deaths-and-marriages?article=140364&postid=140364 #
- @hussykitten I like that photo of the bottle and reflections. #
- @3xl A rubber duck sounds perfect #
- Heading home, had enough for one day. #
- @lilyroseallen Morning #
- @missmonnie No don’t go! 🙂 #
- @missmonnie Yeah, just being dramatic 🙂 #
- @3xl Thanks for the links, interesting works. and I hadn’t come across them before. #
- Ordered Pizza delivery an hour ago or more, and still not here. grrrr #
- I knew it would rock up if I tweeted! Modern equiv to having a cig while waiting for taxi. #
- This is extra mushroom? Poor pizza Dominos! http://twitpic.com/2dyhpw #
- Really crap pizza from Domino’s. Cold, and rubbery. Delivery took way too long. Not happy Jan. #pizza #dominos #
- @shaunau I did. 2 freebies but I’ll take them on a quiet night! #
- @lala_lauren I normally dont mind Dominos pizza, for what you pay. But tonight’s was just as cold as the cardboard box. #
- @atub BTW .. I’m hoping to get along this month, what are the details? #atub #
- @evilpookie What about the chilli!!? Better than a pizza any day! #
- Just finished a 2hr music survey! I think my tastes may be a bit slanted towards the 80’s 🙂 #
- @anepiphany Get the mushroom pizza, OMG best pizza in Adelaide! and yay for the FourSquare win!! #
- wow, the helpdesk software I’ve been using for years (SysAid) is all over YouTube and Google ads today. Even iTunes and Facebook! #
- hey SysAid.. targeting right market, but we already use you!!! #
- @raven_wyld ooooh you got the Xperia? Nice! I was thinking about it, but opted for HTC Desire instead. (and am still waiting for delivery!) #
- @sara_ferguson what phone are you trying to use Twitpic with? #
- @raven_wyld I’ll be interested to hear how you find the X10. Probably will be jealous, I always had SonyEricson phones in the past. #
- I’ve favourited a YouTube video — Cute baby tiger http://youtu.be/idRc_KkInds?a #
- @MissPurroxide With the PS3 it takes ages to update, and sometimes does a batch much later (like next day) #
- @MissPurroxide mmm I dont ‘think’ PS3 can directly update Twitter. Just thinking it may be a delay thing for XBox. #
- RT @abcnews: Breaking news: Magnitude 7.2 quake hits Ecuador (That’s pretty damn big isn’t it??) #
- @sara_ferguson I think you’ll like the flexibility of FlickR, I’ve been using it for years and it’s great. Like your ink too. #
- OK, that’s enough from me for tonight. Off to bed with a new book tonight. G’night Twitterverse. #
- What am I doing up!!?? It’s 4am and I have to be at work in 4hrs #
- Though I did start, and finish His Majesty’s Dragon since I went to bed. #
- @RubyTombstone I have heard the #abc won’t let the Greens have it 🙁 #ausvotes #gruen #
iTunes – Error 5000 and Netware – A Solution
This is a bit of a digression from the norm here, although I haven’t really shown any particular focus on this blog yet, so why start now! I’ve been having an ongoing problem with iTunes and certain apps. When I try to download or update certain iPhone apps with iTunes I get the following error: stopped (err = -5000)
Originally this was only occurring with one app, and since downloading it via the app store on my iPhone worked OK I didn’t let it bother me. However, gradually more apps starting exhibiting the same behaviour. The error dialogue box seems to give a bit more information: There was a problem downloading “Camera+ .. the ultimate photo app”. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.
So now I have four iPhone applications, all with the same problem. They are:
Can you pick the common denominator? All these applications use non standard characters in their file names. Characters that some file systems aren’t going to be happy about.
This all twigged for me after I read the official Apple iTunes troubleshooting guide, it told me to look for the path: “\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Downloads\” and delete the downloads folder. But this is my work computer, and we remap our home directories to a network drive, and to be specific, to a Novell Netware NSS volume. When I looked there other apps had entries, but these particular apps didn’t, and that’s when I had a hunch.
I tried creating files and folders using those application names. You just can’t do it! You can use those characters in Windows, but not on a Novell volume, even with long filename support etc.
So there you have it, if you are getting that error, and you’re using iTunes at work, have a think about where your downloads are being saved, where your My Documents folder actually resides, and if it’s a network drive it may just be that it’s not accepting these non standard characters.
The solution is to either download using you phone, or move the iTunes download folder to a local Windows drive.
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-11
- I’ve used http://www.belowtheline.org to create my voting ticket, check it out! http://bit.ly/csgaQ9 #
- Bad link in my last tweet.. and shame on @idrewthis for a retweet without checking. the correct link is http://www.belowtheline.org.au #
- and my personal ticket, if you’re interested is: https://www.belowtheline.org.au/editor.html#sa-FEwxhijstuvKJHGLMopklcdeDCBAmnyzfgqrabPONI #
- @_Kel_ Yumm! I’d love to try those! http://twitpic.com/2dju5a #
- I chipped in 2 tell @TonyAbbottMHR: uphold ur promise and meet w refugees. Help @GetUp send him a msg he can’t miss http://is.gd/ec9FJ #
- I’ve favourited a YouTube video — Cruz with Ball, the ball wins at the end!!! http://youtu.be/emxI-nRGWBE?a #
- This is great, an intelligent animal like a horse needs toys! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn3UxlPIJhg #
- A leg humping by Drew, I’m jealous! #spicksandspecks #
- ALP time warp ad is brilliant!!!!! #austvotes #
- I’ve favourited a YouTube video — Gruen Nation | Ep. 3 | The Pitch: Republic of Everyo… http://youtu.be/O4jI1atQwp4?a #
- I’m on a twitter revival! #
- @oliyoung Congratz on the job #
- Well if anyone’s reading, goodnight all. Enjoyed all your tweets tonight, made me feel less home alone. #
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-10
- Can you get from Amazon to Piratebay in 6 clicks? No google, no keyboard, just mouse clicks! I just did, I’m pretty impressed with myself 🙂 #
- Recount! It was 5 clicks, even better than I thought. I’ll post links later today if no one can beat me. 5 clicks from Amazon to PirateBay! #
- @evilpookie Yeah, but I really wanted an Android phone. #
- I’ve favourited a YouTube video — The Presets – This Boy’s In Love http://youtu.be/ZTSYQkyknK0?a #
A Trailblazer?
I’ve been using the internet for some time now. In fact I’m not ashamed to say that my first experiences were with Lynx! So I think I have a pretty good handle on finding my way about, and finding what I need.
So when I read a post today on Gizmodo that talked of a competition, where, with no keyboard, no google or bookmarks allowed, participants where challenged to get from one site, to another totally unrelated site my interest was peaked.
At lunchtime when I had a few minutes spare I took up the challenge for myself. The starting site was amazon.com and the destination piratebay.org I imagined a convoluted journey through a bizarre assortment of sites, but instead found myself at my destination in only a few clicks. I suspect posting that path here may be a bit of a spoiler for anyone wanting to try it out, so why not give it a go yourself before reading on (and then post your results in the comments!)….
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Here’s how I did it, each bullet point represents a click.
- At Amazon I realised they had a blog, this seemed the most likely source of external links.
- The very first article today mentioned an LA Times article, and a newspaper is likely to have a lot of links!
- At the LA Times website I quickly headed for the Technology section of the paper.
- A handy tag cloud on the site had ‘piracy‘ as a keyword
- Here it was just too easy, the final link click that took me directly to thepiratebay.org was in an article titled “Even Pirate Bay can be downloaded on Pirate Bay. Dated August 17, 2009″
So that’s it, 5 clicks, about 2 minutes of my time. Anyone got another challenge for me?
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-09
- Still waiting for my HTC Desire to rock up, damn #Telstra 🙁 #