September 2009 – Page 3

Month: September 2009 (page 3 of 3)

Snow Leopard: dyld issue

Since updating my Mac running Snow Leopard to 10.6.1, I’m seeing the following message in the Terminal at least once after running every command:

dyld: shared cached file was build against a different 
libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache

Someone said online that you can clear the cache using the following command:

sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force

That returned the error:

update_dyld_shared_cache failed: vm address 0xFEEDFACE not found 
in /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/
Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libLAPACK.dylib

I was hoping to post a solution to the problem for other people, but I haven’t solved it yet! So if you have any ideas, please post a comment.

Update: Looks like the library that’s preventing me from updating the dyld cache is in the hardware acceleration framework. Here’s one proposed solution, which involves moving the offending framework, running update_dyld_shared_cache and then moving the framework back. I’m not entirely comfortable with that.

Links for September 11

September 11, 2009 / Rafe / 0 Comments

Steve McCurry: Remembering First Responders on 9/11.
The Big Picture: Remembering September 11.
rc3.org: Archive for September 11, 2001.

Links for September 9

September 10, 2009 / Rafe / 0 Comments

Wow.com: Pre-raid Trivia Pumps Up Enthusiasm. I just love the spirit of this.
Squashed: “The Government”. I loved this, simply as a bit of common sense.
Rands in Repose: Your People. Great piece on networking.
Atul Gawande: The Road Ahead. Commentary on last night’s speech by the President by my favorite health care commentator.
GOOD: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. One of the top five on the list of things that freak me out.
Rajith Attapattu: Survival tips for software engineers in a customer facing role. Good set of suggestions. I definitely concur with his suggestion that you learn about the tools that can give you the information you need to diagnose problems remotely.

Links for September 8

September 8, 2009 / Rafe / 0 Comments

New York Times: Robert Spinrad, a Pioneer in Computing, Dies at 77. Former director of Xerox PARC — which was maybe the most concentrated center of innovation in the history of computing.
Cash4Gold offers to pay its critics for their silence. If you don’t watch TV, Cash4Gold is a company that offers to buy gold from people at, as it turns out, far less than the prevailing market rate.
Here are a couple of looks at the current unemployment picture. Our current level of unemployment looks really grim when you fit it to the pace of recovery from recent recessions. Oh, and in total, about 200,000 fewer people have jobs now than had jobs ten years ago. It’s worth remembering that the economy must add roughly 150,000 jobs a month to keep pace with population growth.
James Surowiecki: Inflated Fears. Now’s not the time to obsess over inflation.

Links for September 7

September 7, 2009 / Rafe / 0 Comments

John Gruber: Regarding WordPress and Security. I think the number of people who should be running and maintaining their own content management system keeps getting smaller. The hosted blog tools are really good, and keeping everything running properly really is a pain.
Nate Silver: A Trigger — With Teeth? A trigger clause for the public option could be a good idea if the trigger is likely to kick in without real changes on the part of private insurers and if the public option is robust.
Chris Dixon: Is now a good time to start a company? The economy is not great, but I still don’t see a lot of good programmers out looking for jobs.

Links for September 5

September 6, 2009 / Rafe / 0 Comments

Richard Nixon’s health care reform proposal. I would gladly take this plan.
Brian Mastenbrook: How I cross-site scripted Twitter in 15 minutes, and why you shouldn’t store important data on 37signals’ applications. Good post on XSS vulnerabilities and best practices for dealing with security researchers.
New York Times: For Your Health, Froot Loops. Put this in your pocket for when people start yammering about businesses regulating themselves.
Tim Bray: On Music. A wide ranging look at the future of the music business. For all the complaining about the death of the music industry, an awful lot of really good music is being recorded.
Matt Mullenweg: How to Keep WordPress Secure. Shorter version: make sure you’re always running the latest release.

Matt Taibbi on health care reform

September 5, 2009 / Rafe / 5 Comments

Matt Taibbi has written what to me looks like the definitive account of the health care reform process thus far. I can’t find a thing in it to argue with. The most frustrating thing about it is that I have a hard time seeing how it could have gone any differently. It’s not as though anyone can point to any one bad decision that would have made things go more easily — this is how our government works.

The one thing that really does disappoint me is that when campaigning for President, Barack Obama said he would break through the gridlock in Washington by going directly to the people and getting them to put pressure on Congress to enact important reforms. I’m not sure whether he’s to blame for not harnessing the public effectively, or the public is responsible for not answering when he called. But we’re now stuck with the same dysfunctional lawmaking process that we’ve had for as long as I can remember.

Not only are we stuck with a government that is incapable of effectiveness, but we are stuck with a populace that is unwilling to demand effectiveness. The most energized portion of the electorate is operating in a fever dream of paranoia and stupidity so deep that they are indistinguishable from followers of Lyndon LaRouche.

Links for September 3

September 3, 2009 / Rafe / 0 Comments

First of all, happy birthday to my friend Paul, who doesn’t read my blog.

Guardian: CIA doctors face human experimentation claims. Just read the headline.
Tim Bray: Ravelry. Tim interviews Casey Forbes, the tech guy behind Ravelry, a site for knitting enthusiasts and covers everything from bootstrapping a business to scaling Ruby on Rails.
The Numbers Guy: Some Theorists Withhold Best-Voting-System Award. Voting experts weigh in on the new voting system for the Oscars this year.
Hanan Cohen: Spoken Directions to Web Content (aka “Go to page number”). A good, simple idea for improving Web site usability. This approach could also be extended to create a spoken instructions/shortened URL hybrid service for a site.

Links for September 1

September 1, 2009 / Rafe / 0 Comments

Ars Technica: John Siracusa’s Snow Leopard review. 23 pages of goodness.
How the economics of strip malls differ from the economics of commercial blocks in cities.
Jonah Lehrer: The Just World Hypothesis. One of the great moral insights I had at a relatively early age is that the world generally operates with no regard for or propensity toward just outcomes.
Dan Gillmor: Time Pundit’s Rant and (Partly) Misguided Sense of Privacy. You can’t expect email sent to a mailing list to remain private.
WebMonkey: Opera 10 Arrives. Opera has never caught on with me, but they’re to be commended for driving innovation in the browser market and putting the bigger browser makers to shame on a regular bases.

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