Filevault fixes, FW 800 fixes, etc

I plugged my stalwart 3G iPod into my g5 dock yesterday, iTunes launched and then gave me a -36 error and failed. Ok, so now my song list on the iPod was hosed. I tried again, same thing.

I tried to restore the iPod but that locked up - even Panther. I had to hard reboot the mac. Several more attempts at this , and several hours later, I took my iPod to Comp USA to replace it under my TAP warranty.

I got home with a new 40 (and new accessories too!) but this iPod behaved like the last one. What the hell?

so I mounted my iTunes library over the net and plugged my iPod into the laptop. It synced fine. ok, great.

I ran DiskWarrior on the G5 and it fixed some disk errors, but the iPod issue remained.

So I unplugged the iSight and usb hubs (I have two, daisy chained) and now it worked! Ok, hmm. I plugged the iSight back in, still worked. Then I plugged the two hubs in, crash. Hmm.

I then plugged in just the first hub and it worked. OK. I plugged in the second hub and it still worked, but the updating would do three songs quickly, pause for two seconds, then three more, etc.

I unplugged the iSight and the Mac kernel paniced. Hmm.

So I went and checked everything and sure enough, the power brick for the second USB hub had fallen off the end of the power strip it was plugged into!

I plugged it back in and the iSight and now my iPod is syncing just fine.

So, at least on a dual g5, the power draw of the USB bus affects the power draw of the firewire bus, and can cause an iPod to lose enough power to cause the hard drive to shut down, which then locks up Panther.

Great. 9 hours to figure all this out.

All bricks are now zip tied to the power strip.

Yes indeedy my braces came off this morning! My teeth are so smooth!

I now have retainers for life - I wear them 24/7 for a week, then just at night. I’ll be using Opalecence to whiten my teeth this week.

I also picked up an Oral-B Deluxe 7900 teeth care system at the store!

I am sooooooooo excited!

Thanks to Jim for this link to Ballmer’s iPod

This made my week!

Disney Pins from Living in Oregon

I made a shadow box (well I removed the velour and added cork, might paint the cork later) for my Disney Pins collection

The Sherlock in Panther has this neat feature (was this in Jag?) When searching for a movie, in the “near” field, you cannot only enter a zip code or city/state/zip, but you can enter a name from your address book and Sherlock will use their address for the search!

Safari seems slower than Mozilla for opening my movabletype edit pages - Something for Apple to work on. Maybe it is the server interaction with the cgis that Safari is waiting too long for.

Actually this seems to be related to blocking popup windows for some reason - turn it off and Safari is fast again.

Bookmarklets like:

javascript:d=document;t=d.selection?d.selection.createRange().text:d.getSelection(); void(window.open('http://www.blah.cgi?is_bm=1&bm_show=trackback,category,convert_breaks &__mode=view&_type=entry&link_title='+escape(d.title)+'&link_href='+ escape(d.location.href)+'&text='+escape(t),'_blank',' scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=580,status=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes'))

still do nothing in Safari, whereas they work in Mozilla. However, you can head over to this site for a fix!

To Maggie’s spoiler I respond:

I have not seen it yet, but I could have told you this is what it would be. I told my bro after part 2, the search for sexual satisfaction, no wait, that was American Pie. At least that was funny. heh.

These guys, the Walwackoffs, had no idea what Matrix was when they made it - then it was a huge hit, so they had to make something up, and it shows.

Matrix is the Windows of movies - People like it partially because it is cool, and mainly because everyone else lilkes it.

I’ll go see it - I love special effects, but it won’t be a Mac OS X of a movie, like Finding Nemo was.

Keep on swimming keep on swimming

I’ll be there with Lucien and friends from PMUG!

I mounted my iPod in the Taurus using a mount put in by Martindales and a custom holder I built to mount to the bracket.

You can see it here.

I’ve been wanting a mount for my iPod for some time. Check out the pictures of what I have so far.