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Annie Lennox Mashup…
A brilliant mashup (thanks to @lkahney), showing Annie Lennox’s talent and beauty. To me, she is a perfect counterpart to Freddy Mercury…
– Dave
Spirited Away…
Posted by Dave Mark on Jul 31, 2009 in Movies
Have you seen the movie “Spirited Away”? It is one of my all time favorite movies. It is an anime masterpiece created by Hayao Miyazaki back in 2001. It was originally written in Japanese, but Disney did a brilliant job bring the film to the US and dubbing it in English.
Do NOT let the fact that this is anime keep you from this experience. To me, this is a must see movie, a perfect choice for an evening with your favorite people, especially if any of them are kids. The movie can be a little scary for very little ones, so keep that in mind.
Normally, I’d embed the trailer in this post, but the YouTube trailers are badly done and the properly formatted trailer from TCM is not embeddable.
Here is the link to the TCM trailer.
Here is the link to the wiki page.
Happy viewing…
– Dave
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Interesting Video Woz Interview…
Posted by Dave Mark on Jul 28, 2009 in Apple, Steve Wozniak
Woz was in Cologne playing a Segway polo match and did an interview for a German site.
Very interesting discussion on GPS potential as well as some technological dreams…
– Dave
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Balancing Bricks…
Posted by Dave Mark on Jul 28, 2009 in video
From my buddy Todd, an amazing bit of balance work. Honestly, I expected this guys arms to just start getting longer as he went… 
– Dave
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US Festival on Facebook…
Posted by Dave Mark on Jul 27, 2009 in Music, Steve Wozniak
Remember the US Festival from the early 1980’s? Well Woz just sent out the word that a Facebook page has been created for the festival. Check out the video for Van Halen doing Jamie’s Crying…
– Dave
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Trouble Adding Printer – Permissions Problem…
I just got a new MacBook Pro. Lovely machine, love the new keyboard. Noticeable speed increase.
I migrated my old account to my new machine using the Migration Assistant. I went to print and noticed that my print drivers did not make the leap over to the new machine. No problem, I’ll just add a new printer in the print dialog. Simple, right? Wrong!
When I clicked on Add Printer, a dialog appeared asking me to select a user in the _lpadmin group. Since I am the only user on my machine, I typed my name and password. No dice. I was told to please enter a user in the _lpadmin group. In other words, I am not in that group.
Hmmm…
So I went into Terminal and typed this command:
id davemark
“davemark” is my short name (as you might have guessed). The id command tells you about your id and tells you what groups you are in. I am not in the _lpadmin group. That is not good. Time to turn to Google.
Turns out lots of folks have run into this problem. Not clear what causes it, but fortunately the fix is pretty straightforward, though not at all obvious.
I went back into Terminal and typed this line:
dseditgroup -o edit -p -a admin -t group _lpadmin
If you want to read up on what this command does, type this command in Terminal:
man dseditgroup
In a nutshell, this adds you to the group _lpadmin, which is what I wanted. Worked flawlessly. Here’s the page that turned me on to this command. Thanks, Google!
– Dave
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Great Quote From “Love and Death”…
Napoleon is flirting with Diane Keaton’s character, Sonja…
NAPOLEON: Will you be more difficult to conquer than Russia?
SONJA: Well, I weigh less.
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Deleting Files From Your iPhone…
This is pretty interesting. A while back, my buddy David sent me an email asking about the process of deleting files from his iPhone. He had deleted some mail messages and then gone to the search page and found the messages even though they were deleted.
Search page? iPhone OS 3.0 introduced a search page, to the left of the home page. Press your home button to bring you to your home page and either drag to the right or press the home button again. This brings you to your search page. Using Spotlight (reverse indexing), the search page searches everything stored on your iPhone. This includes music, email, apps, photos, and even the trash!
Giving the user the ability to search deleted files is an interesting choice on Apple’s part. There’s no way to restrict searches so deleted files are not searched. In addition, there’s no simple way to “really delete” files so they are scrubbed from the persistent store. Not really a problem, unless you’ve got sensitive material on your iPhone that you really want to delete.
Enter my buddy David again. We cooked up this experiment which he was nice enough to run. He deleted some emails, then searched for them and verified that search found them and that he was able to open the deleted emails by clicking on them in search.
Next, he built a giant playlist that consumed all the free space on his iPhone. The theory: Apple maintains a list of deleted items and returns the memory to apps as requested. When an app needs more memory, they get that memory from the deleted list once regular memory is used up.
David ran the experiment and, as expected, as he filled his iPhone, items disappeared from the deleted list. Pretty interesting. Try it yourself…
– Dave
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Excellent Magic Trick…
Posted by Dave Mark on Jul 24, 2009 in magic
From Woz. I am a sucker for a good magic trick. I know it’s all done with mirrors and secret compartments, but I still enjoy the presentation. This one is from a Dutch TV show and it really worked for me…
– Dave
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House on the Rock…
Posted by Dave Mark on Jul 23, 2009 in Architecture, photography
Words cannot describe the beauty of this house on a tiny island off Rhode Island. Woz sent out this picture:
The original is from this slideshow on the New York Times site. There’s also a terrific article on the history and maintenance of the house. Will try to get there myself on my next visit to Rhode Island. What a place!
– Dave
