Living with Mangee

04:15:00 - Dugg: Apple ticking off New Zealand Mac users. No DST updates for NZ time change.

Quoting Russell Brown on Hard News "At 2.00am on Sunday September 30, New Zealand Daylight Saving Time will begin -- a week earlier than has previously been the case. It's looking very much like Macs won't be there". Apple to date hasn't seen fit to supply a patch... and with a week before it happens there is still issues with NZ keeping in sync with the rest of the world.

Yes, I submitted it to digg.com Apple did update their 'advice' on manually setting your clock during the week until the old rules change it automatically - but this still doesn't help issues with international calendaring - e.g I've got an online EMC conference next week - and constantly rely on iCal to give me timely notice of international events, such as other online Apple User Group meetings, or online events. Not just iCal, but anything that relies of a (non local) timestamp relating to a local one. So far UTC based events still seem ok, but anything in NZST/NZDT is a bit confusing.

Back ups that store times in UTC (converted from local) are an hour out in tests, and this will be a week of wrong backups - while an hour isn't that critical (it's a memo to all backup admins) - what have we missed?

Assuming Apple updates NZ with the rumoured 10.4.11 updates (due 27th September?) - there will likely be another slew of changes of timestamps as they are fixed. Argh! Apple has likely known about this for 6 months.. but is New Zealand so insignificant that it is only "September 13, 2007" before Apple even acknowledges there is a problem?

Great job Apple.

http://www.drury.net.nz/2007/09/19/daily-savings-time-on-osx/
http://publicaddress.net/default,4488.sm#post4488
http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,727,hard_news_deriving_satisfaction_from_the_misfortune_of_others.sm


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21:08:00 - A week till mini y2k, and no Apple NZDT update...

With New Zealand daylight time set to roll on a week earlier than ever before - at the end of this month, there has been growing concern amongst Apple system administrators and users over the failure of Apple to release an official update the includes patches for the changes in New Zealand Daylight Savings Time (NZDT).( Fears were allayed with the recent release of a patch by WellDev member, Glenn Anderson. )
Thanks to the efforts of WellDev the Wellington developers group and others, Glenn Anderson of mactcp.org.nz has released version 1.1 of a small application that will patch the time zone rules in 10.4.10 - including the files /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland, /usr/share/icu/icudt32b.dat and icudt32l.dat, pending the rumoured 10.4.11 updates from Apple.

That should stop you having to (god forbid) manually adjust your clock downunder
Enjoy.

Current Mood: impressed

17:15:00 - SuperHappyDevHouse.nz | iPhoneWebDev | my Saturday

It was a day of baby sitting for me.. planted a few berry canes ready for harvest, kept an eye on my feeds from iPhoneWebDev, and anything I could glean from SuperHappyDevHouse. I did 4 loads of washing, experimented with a Bluetooth speaker (for the garage washing line - then decided iPod was just the same).
I also started contacting people about the 8th August. Potential exhibitors, speakers and other people into Games, geeking and gadgets.

Bring it.

09:44:00 - Avatar is hated?

Apparently no-one likes this avatar. It's me basking in the glow from the iMac. I kinda liked it a year ago, but apprently it scares the little girls I chat wth online.

So I changed default to the masked one. but no-body likes that either ... so I took a photo of an emu.. and thats the default now.

Your thoughts?

Current Music: macTV Show #135 - ‘Make Me Switch’ - Video VI - macTV Videocast

Current Mood: amused

09:41:00 - the whole "Buy me a Mac" thing.

( The prelude... )I had tried it - see http://nzmac.org/jo

Heh, I tried that whole "please someone buy me a Mac" thing. I got about $40USD since like 2003 -
See the Internet Archive for nzmac.org/jo ;)

In the end I got a job, worked hard, and bought an iMac G5. Meant to last 5 years, but cabbettenz likes it so much she ditched her PC, and won't let me near it ;) So maybe I need to do it again...
( Help me buy a Mac (budgeting advice? )
I'll settle for any Intel Mac that can play HD 1080i video (and preferably encode it in reasonable time too - but thats what having more than one mac is about -- distributed rendering with X-grid

Anyway - feel free to donate ;) Or tell me to get a real job that earns money so I can support both cabbettenz and lilblip AND buys new hardware every 18 months.

Current Music: macTV Show #130 - ‘Make Me Switch’ - Video II - macTV Videocast

00:46:00 - Go hack around on Mac OS X -- from the inside.

Onyx:~ jo$ ssh mangee@rm-my-Mac.WideOpenBSD.ORG
Password:
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+--------< http://rm-my-Mac.WideOpenBSD.ORG >-+
| rm my Mac - destructive hacking at its best |
|                               _ _           |
|                  ____________/ / \_.)_      |
|                  `.     ,'   @_@_/ ,'|      |
|                    `-.-'        , / /|      |
|                       `-.____,-'  | ||      |
| bash# rm -fr /&                \  \ ||      |
| [1] 1337                       |  | \|      |
| bash# ls                      /   \     ,,' |
| Segmentation fault            |    \   //   |
| bash# id                     /      |  ||   |
| -sh: id: command not found  |    ,-\ //     |
| bash#                       |   _\  \||     |
|                             (_`-(_____)/    |
|          http://www.pulltheplug.org         |
+---------------------------------------------+
( THe rest... )
http://rm-my-mac.wideopenbsd.org/ssh
and
http://digg.com/apple/Mac_OS_X_hacked_in_less_than_30_minutes


Heh.  Good fun

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Current Music: Central Park West - John Coltrane - The Best Of John Coltrane

Current Mood: amused