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Cockpit Recorder iPhone Export File Permissions Issue

legs o'clock — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:09:33 +0000

After recording videos with an Installous version of Cockpit Recorder, I decided I was ready to purchase the export option.

I backed up all of the videos to my local machine, deleted the app, installed the App Store version, and did the in-app export purchase.

After I moved the videos back the app recognized the videos, but crashed when attempting to export.

The videos are stored in /var/mobile/Applications/randomnumbersandletters(folder with CockpitRecorder.app)/Documents/Videos

The videos were all owned by root:mobile

Within that directory I did:

chown -R mobile:mobile .

After that I was able to export videos. I’m still unable to record new videos. I think it may be related to the GeneralData.plist file. I’ll update this when I figure it out, or comment here with the answer and I’ll update the post.

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legs o'clock — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:23:20 +0000

we are BFFs, this is a criagslist missed connections.

Bought Geocache

legs o'clock — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:03:42 +0000

roadtrip 2010

iPhone app stuck on “Paused” and iTunes prompting repeatedly for your password?

legs o'clock — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:51:00 +0000

For the past two days Skype has been stuck since I tried to remove it from my iPhone 3.1.2 with jailbreak. Usually plugging the phone into the computer and letting it sync with iTunes would resolve this issue but for some reason it kept disconnecting right near the end of the sync process.

I then ssh into my phone and checked the /Applications folder but couldn’t find Skype.app listed there. I then looked in /var/mobile/Applications which is a bunch of folders with strings like 71A7E798-AAB8-4D3F-95B6-326E185FC25A.

Rather than spending the next 20 minutes using the CLI to browse these folders I fired up FileZilla to sftp into my phone, and browsed to /var/mobile/Applications and used the nice GUI to look through each folder.

All of the functional apps contained

Documents
Library
tmp
AppName.app
iTunesArtwork
iTunesMetadata.plist

I eventually found a few of the folders to only contain the following subfolders:

Documents
Library
tmp

Like any reasonable person I tried to backup the “71A7E798-AAB8-4D3F-95B6-326E185FC25A” style folders before deleting by moving to my local PC but that wasn’t working for some reason. I still recommend trying it in case you mess anything up.

I removed the ones I found containing only documents, library, and tmp. I then rebooted my phone and uncle paused Skype was gone. Magic-ish.

First?

legs o'clock — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:00:07 +0000

I just ate cinnamon toast crunch with hemp milk. That is all.

Official Correct Websense Service Shutdown/Stop and Start/Restart Order

legs o'clock — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:04:46 +0000

I got this list from Websense Tech Support:

Shutdown the Websense services in this order:

“ApacheTomcatWebsense”
“Apache2Websense”
“Websense Usage Monitor”
“Websense Reporter Scheduler”
“Websense Log Server”
“Websense Information Service for Explorer”
“Websense Explorer Report Scheduler”
“Websense Logon Agent”
“Websense DC Agent”
“Websense Network Agent”
“Websense Filtering Service”
“Websense User Service”
“Websense Policy Server”
“Websense Policy Broker”
“Websense Policy Database”

Restart in the opposite order.

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Worlds creepiest thickest potato chip

legs o'clock — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:32:03 +0000

My grandfather found this in a bag of Herr’s potato chips today. At first I thought some bread or a cookie had fallen in the bag. But after a quick smell test, it is indeed some freakish form of potato.

Photo credit amandoo

Bidding starts at $25.

Verizon FiOS | how to setup remote control to change volume on the set top box (STB)

legs o'clock — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:10 +0000

I plug my FiOS box into a 22″ Acer monitor using an HDMI to DVI cable. I have an old Boston Acoustic 2.1 computer speaker set that I plug in for sound. Changing the volume required standing up and walking over to the speakers. Commercials are approximately 470% louder than regular television programming, so it’s nice to control volume remotely.

These instructions are for the Philips RC 144 Remote:

1. Press and hold the STB key
2. While holding down STB, press OK
3. Release both keys, the device keys will blink twice.
4. Press 9 – 5 – 5, the STB key will blink twice
5. Press OK

Volume is now setup to change the volume on the Verizon box rather than the TV.

Visit this page if you have another remote or want to download the user manual for your Verizon FiOS remote.

VirtualBox vboxdrv | Ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-14-server

legs o'clock — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:05:43 +0000

I recently upgraded my kernel which broke VirtualBox, I got the following error:

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Re-setup the kernel module by executing

‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’

as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary

Usually this is fixed by running:

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

I then found this post which applied to the generic kernel and indicated that I may be missing the kernel headers. Since I am running VirtualBox in Ubuntu Server 9.04 I ran:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.28-14-server

and then

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Working again.

Moving MySQL to a new server (Ubuntu Server 8.10)

legs o'clock — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:20:55 +0000

This short guide will help you move all users, databases, tables, etc from server1 (current server) to server2 (new server).

Stop the mysql service on both servers:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Setup a temporary directory in the home folder of your user on server2. (This is because we don’t have root access remotely.)

mkdir ~/varlibmysql

On server1:

sudo rsync -axv –progress –stats /var/lib/mysql/ user@server2:~/varlibmysql/

On server2:

sudo rsync -axv –progress –stats ~/varlibmysql/ /var/lib/mysql/

chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/

At this point if you try to start mysql, you will most likely see the following error:

error: ‘Access denied for user ‘debian-sys-maint’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)’

To fix this (on server2):

cd /etc/mysql

sudo mv debian.cnf debian.cnf.backup (creates a backup of your original)

On server1:

sudo cat /etc/mysql/debian.cnf

(highlight and copy the contents of this file to your clipboard)

On server2:

sudo vim /etc/mysql/debian.cnf

press i on the keyboard to begin editing

paste clipboard into file

press Esc, type :wq and press Enter

Start the SQL service on server2:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

And you’re all set…