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Continue reading →: Theory on Aperture Slowdown
Under the hood, Aperture stores information on an image in two places. The first is in a SQLite3 database, and the second is in an assortment of plist files. One would venture that this approach is used for data redundancy purposes and that the data is copied between the two…
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Continue reading →: PowerMac G5 Power Supply Fix
If you’ve been having problems with the power supply unit on your PowerMac G5, Apple has finally come to the rescue! Apple has posted details on its Power Mac G5 Repair Extension Program for Power Supply Issues program. If you purchased your PowerMac between October 2005 and August 2006 and…
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Continue reading →: Unable to open database error?
An Annoture user can’t run the application because the Aperture SQLite3 database can not be opened. He’s getting the error from the program and from the command line when manually trying to access the database. Unable to open database file Any Mac OS X and SQLite3 gurus know why this…
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Continue reading →: Reading Between the Lines
If you’ve been following the Ted Haggard scandal, you’ve got to read this article, published in May, 2005, in Harper’s Magazine. Soldiers of Christ has some of the most delicious and prescient ironies on Haggard that I’ve encountered while following this story. His true beliefs and desires were sitting right…
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Continue reading →: November 8 COBA Meeting
The November 2006 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held this Wednesday, November 8, 2006 in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm. Around the World in 60 Minutes COBA members have been traveling around the world and have the…
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Continue reading →: Low-Key Hillclimbs #4: Highway 9
Learning from my previous meltdown on the slopes of Mt. Diablo, I decided to have a great warm up before the ride, have a water bottle filled with sugared water (Trader Joe’s Dixie Peach), and pace myself better in the beginning of the ride. The lack of a bike computer…
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Continue reading →: Low-Key Hillclimbs #3: Mt. Diablo
Last week’s Low-Key Hillclimb up Walnut Creek’s Mt. Diablo was not a good day in the saddle for me. I suffered greatly as a result of four critical errors in my (lack of) preparation: No warmup Went too hard in the beginning Lemon water No computer Read more below the…
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Continue reading →: Halloween
Another year, another Halloween! Having moved to Santa Clara, we got to see a new batch of kids. We checked out our new neighborhood dressed up in our Halloween costumes. Rae donned a mask to conceal her face, which means, yes, Rae and I went trick or treating for the…
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Continue reading →: Rotten Tomatoes Halloween Party
Update: Now with photos from the party! Cobra La La La La La La! I’m off to ride in the Low-Key Hillclimb Series ride #3 up Mt. Diablo, so I don’t have the time to post some more photos. Here’s one of me with members of the Cobra Terrorist Organization…
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Continue reading →: AppleScript System Events Slowness
In Timeature, I have the app tell Aperture to switch to the Library via AppleScript. What should be a very fast operation turns out to be glacially slow. Any AppleScript wizards care to explain why this is the case? Here’s offending code that you can run in Script Editor: tell…
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