Month: August 2010

  • Panasonic’s New AG-AF100….DCinema game changer?…maybe.

    You kinda knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Canon 5D MKII came out a couple of years ago, set the budget DCinema market on it’s head and caught the traditional ENG/Video guys (Sony/Panasonic) totally off-guard. Well I think Panasonic — for now, until Sony comes out with their NEX-VG10 Camera — is…

  • Evom…Video encoding/transcoding doesn’t get any simpler…

    If you’re a mac user you’re gonna love this little gem. Grab a copy of Evom and prepare to be amazed at how simple video encoding can become. This little app from the “Little App Factory” is literally the definition of a OSX app….simple and powerful. Just drag a video over the drop zone, choose…

  • The Ultimate File Transfer Utility for Windows

    I’ve been posting mainly about OSX for the last little while, but no worries, I haven’t given up on Windows…yet :-). Someone today was asking about a good WebDAV client and after searching around for a bit, it seems like there is really only a couple out there. But really none of them can beat…

  • OSX Server: Could not setup Mach task special port 9

    com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10f860.cron[43786]): Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access If you’re seeing this warning/error in your OSX Server log files, it is more than likely caused by cron running jobs for mailman subsystem. Even if the Mail process is disabled in Server Admin, OSX will try to run these cron jobs.…

  • Duplicating service settings under OSX Server…

    This mainly applies to how you deal with a backup DHCP server and it’s configuration, but might also be useful for backing up other service settings. One of the things that kinda bugs me about how some services are configured in OSX Server is the fact that the configurations are stored in the directory. For…

  • MySQL Replication howto for Snow Leopard…

    We recently upgraded our servers from old XServe G5’s running Tiger to the latest greatest running Snow Leopard. In this small howto I will deal with the procedure I followed to setup mysql master-slave replication between two new servers. I start out with two (master, slave) empty DB’s, setup the replication and then import my…

  • MySQL: Transfering users and priviledges to a new server….

    So this was a great big mystery this morning. How the heck do you transfer the users and their privileges out of a old mysql server and “import” them into a new server. We recently upgraded from OSX 10.4.11 to a couple of spanking new Snow Leopard servers and during the mysql export/import cycle this…

  • Nerdlogger has moved….

    Not that you should really care too much about this, but I’ve moved nerdlogger.com to wordpress platform (from blogger). This will hopefully give me more flexibility in order to provide more services.

  • WordPress import plugin for blogger fix….

    Version 0.2 of the blogger plugin for wordpress 3.x has a small little bug in it that produces the following error: Something went wrong. If the problem persists, send this info to support: HTTP/1.0 403 Invalid AuthSub token.Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8Content-Length: 167Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:16:35 GMTExpires: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:16:35 GMTCache-Control: private, max-age=0X-Content-Type-Options:…

  • Restarting into Mac OS X using the command line, when running Windows…

    Okay so this only works in Boot Camp 3.0+ which comes with Snow Leopard (10.6). If you ever find yourself in Windows and need to quickly — using command line — change your boot option to reboot into OSX (process known under OSX as blessing) you can use the following command:c:\progra~1\Bootca~1\bootcamp.exe -StartupDisk “Mac OS” Shutdown…