Snow Leopard 64-bit Weirdness

So, I’ve been running Snow Leopard for a couple of weeks now, mostly in 64-bit mode, which contrary to my initial expectations hasn’t caused any real problems with any software or hardware. The entire OS seems very stable and snappy, and I’m oh so happy. I have noticed a few weird quirks, though.

For one, it seems that whenever I try to run something in Quartz Composer, or just launching a Quartz composition in Quicktime, it will utterly fail to render properly. Everything is either garbles of what looks like old video memory (Safari windows, random images, multicolored visual noise) or just plain nothing. I came to think that this might be some kind of memory addressing issue, so i booted up in 32-bit mode, and presto, no problems at all.

That, on the other hand caused my Citrix Metaframe connection to one of my clients to stop working. Whenever I try to connect to the presentation server, I will get a Java exception thrown at me (a null-pointer one to be specific, which again might point at some kind of memory issue). Weirdness!

So to recap, the only issues I’ve experienced with Snow Leopard is Quartz not working in 64-bit mode, and the Citrix Java client not working in 32-bit mode.

Update: Seems I was wrong on the Citrix client only working in 64-bit mode. It seems that it has a bit of its own life, suddenly deciding not to be cooperative in any way, regardless of bitness. On the light side of things, opening up Java preferences (Applications > Utilities > Java-preferences) and clearing the applet cache does seem to resolve the problems, at least for some time.

Dreams

There can be so much more. Your mind already created your world. Why be content with just what you unconsciously bricked together? Start imagining. Your wildest dreams live right inside you. There’s no reason to chase them. Start putting them into everything you do. There’s no other way. Recognize that you live them now, and you will find that you are. Take back control. Create your own world, it’s what we all do. There’s no reason not to do it consciously.

Let go

Sometimes life points the fucking flash right in your face and fires it without warning. But when the purple dimples and traces fade from your vision and sight is recovered, the world isn’t at all what it used to be. Well it is, but you see it upside down, inside out, metatranscribed onto a swirling wall, inprinted with esoteric symbols, unreadable but screaming meaning and emotion in your face. And that’s when the torrent starts. Somewhere from the backwaters of your mind, it trickles it’s way from your subconcious, like tickling drops, moving their way forward in constant and rhythmic motion, slowly, barely noticeable gaining mass for each drop you let through. You don’t want to stop it. There is no way you can. As the frequency rises, the drops start interconnecting, becoming an unbroken line connecting you with an essence you didn’t even know you had forgotten, and much less carried with you every time-quantum of your life, from the very moment you was conceived in your mothers womb, to the place you stand today. As you allow the stream to move freely within you, the boundaries break, and pressure is released. The trickle becomes a river, washing over your existence. You move deeper, because you have to, because you need to see the other side, because this is what you were always meant to be doing. There’s only letting go now. This is it.

Apple’s In-Ear iPhone Headset…

Turns out to double nicely as a headset for your Mac! How sweet! Just got myself the in-ear iPhone headset today, and plugged it into my Macbook to listen to some music. I accidentally fiddled with the controls on the headset cord, and lo-and-behold, they actually worked for adjusting volume and play/pause/skip controls. Turns out, the little microphone in the headset is also recognized and connected to the Mac when plugged in, so it doubles as a full headset for Skype/iChat/whatever, even though it’s only plugged into the headphone port. Pure genius.

Free Wifi in Newark Airport

I get a lot of traffic to this page each day, so now that you’re here, why not take a look around at all the other stuff i keep here? Maybe you’ll find something interesting. Be my guest, please

Update: Unfortunately, it seems the fine folks at Newark have fixed this little glitch. It was nice while it lasted!

This will show you how to get free wifi from the Boingo hotspots in Newark airport. It’ll probably also work on other Boingo hotspots, but I haven’t tried it yet. If it works, please post a comment, would be nice to know. Now, read on and I’ll tell you how to do this in-between all my ramblings.

So, I’m sitting here in Newark Liberty International Airport (what a long name), and having a few hours to waste before my flight, I figured i’d try to find some open wireless networks, and have a little surfin’ fun. Unfortunately, as I expected, no networks accidentally left open was to be found, so another route had to be taken. I need my internet fix. So here’s how it works:

Boingo is kind enough to offer free wifi in all of Newark airport, with a little tricking that is. Trying their network from my iPhone, I noticed i had the option to get 15-minutes of free internet time, if I watched a 15-second ad, that is. Nice deal! Worked painlessly and let me browse the interwebs from my iPhone, but when I pulled out my laptop to write some email, I found that the offer wasn’t available when using a laptop. Doh!

So, what to do? All it requires is a little URL trickery. When you first connect to the Boingo network and open a browser, you will be presented with a Boingo “buy-some-access-time-now-you-rich-person-in-need-of-internet-access-for-the-outrageous-price-of-24.99-dollars” kind of page. We won’t do that. Please notice the unholy URL in your address bar. It’ll be something like:

https://www.boingo.aero/(S(j0vp4xi5o1h6fre12cg5hx55))/Home.aspx

Beautiful. To get your nice and free access, just change the “Home.aspx” part of the url to “FreeOfferAdMobile.aspx”, so the URL will look something like this:

https://www.boingo.aero/(S(j0vp4xi5o1h6fre12cg5hx55))/FreeOfferAdMobile.aspx

Hit enter, wait for the little “connecting” bar to finish, and of you go! Enjoy your free wireless internet access!

An ordinary aspect of life, perhaps?

Don’t you just hate it when the universe seems to be screaming some profoundly fundamental truth of your life right in your face, and you just can’t comprehend it?

Hi there, welcome to my new blog

If you are reading this, you probably came from my old blog, located at blog.exdev.dk. Well, that one is no more (a technical stupidity had me erasing the entire database), so you were sent here instead. Enjoy your stay If you were looking for my iPodLinux installer, you can download it here. Have fun, and thank you for visiting!

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