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Safari crashes

…N_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00028038 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 com.apple.WebCore 0x95893818 khtml::RenderStyle::RenderStyle[unified]() + 36 1 com.apple.WebCore 0x958a48a0 khtml::CSSStyleSelector::styleForElement(DOM::ElementImpl*, khtml::RenderStyle*, bool) + 284 2 com.apple.WebCore 0x958a4670 DOM::NodeImpl::createRendererIfNeeded() + 108 3 com.apple.WebCore 0x958a45ec DOM::ElementImpl::attach() + 24 4 com.apple.WebCore 0x958a367c KHTMLParser::in…

pbxes.com (PBXes, i-p-tel): horrendously bad customer service

…immediately, then shortly thereafter Friday’s post was deleted too with no relevant explanation. So, my only choice was to pay for an account I did not intend to use, just for the “privilege” of deleting it. Note at no point in this saga have I been personally addressed by any representative of PBXes/i-p-tel; just sent automated messages and left to wonder about their motivations, which at this point seem at best bizarre; at worst, malicious, bul…

Goodbye, arnold

…but two aging machines—calamity and shrug—remain to be decommissioned. I’ve mentioned calamity a few times over the years; it predates arnold by a couple of years, having ably served as my parents’ DNS, email, Web, VPN and monitoring server. There’ve been no hardware failures, though I’ve upgraded the hard drives and SCSI card once and switched the backup medium from xfsdump on an external MO drive to the network via Bacula. I moved the email and…

Overriding DNS for domains in OS X Tiger

…Try running scutil –dns, where you’ll see multiple resolvers, each resolver with its own set of (search) domains and nameservers—it’s like a routing table for DNS. This architecture solves my problem much more elegantly than editing resolv.conf. You can even be connected to multiple VPNs simultaneously, with a private nameserver and associated domains for each VPN, and everything just works™. I rewrote the script to use this new mechanism, a…

…|| APE 1.0: http://www.haxies.com/ape/ 14:32 sabi> so, what's the deal with the SDK? 14:34 + miles [~miles@kidthree.ne.client2.attbi.com] joined #macdev 14:35 @Dr_Qwerty> it exists ;) 14:37 sabi> that's nice……

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