Currently Prairie Locator is a one-way conversion. Reverse conversions may become available in the future but I have no timeframe to provide at this time.
I see this thread a lot on FireCore and various other forums. Running XBMC under ATV2 works fine and then one day it starts crashing back to Lowtide after a random amount of time.
What’s actually happening is ATV Updater Service is checking for updates with Apple and once an update becomes available it tries to prompt, of course XBMC isn’t designed to allow Lowtide prompts take the responding view and it crashes.
The easiest way to solve the issue is to SSH into the Apple TV, install a text editor (I prefer VIM, but Nano works too) and add a block to the hosts file so that when the updater service checks it doesn’t actually reach Apples update servers.
ssh root@apple-tv.local
apt-get install vim
vim /etc/hosts
Make your /etc/hosts file look like the following
## # Host Database # # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry. ## 127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost ::1 localhost fe80::1%lo0 localhost 127.0.0.1 mesu.apple.com
You’ll notice the last line adds 127.0.0.1 mesu.apple.com. Once you have added that line, save the file and all will now be good in the world of XBMC.
Keep in mind, if you choose to update your ATV2 in the future, you will need to edit this file and comment or remove that line so it can connect to the update servers.
Recently released is my newest application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Celsius, a simple weather application powered by Environment Canada. A must have for every Canadian with an iOS Device! Check it out at http://www.celsiusapp.ca
After spending a few hours exchanging emails with developer Vadim Shpakovski while trying to troubleshoot an issue with CodeBox we managed to come across a solution that wasn’t initially apparent.
If you’ve ever been working with an application and noticed the Recent Files history is empty, then you have likely ran into the same issue I did.
Luckily, the solution is simple. In your OS X System Preferences, under Appearance ensure Number of Recent Items is not set to None.
If you ever need to completely remove Xcode due to application issues or future upgrades, you can run a single command from Terminal to remove it.
sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
Of course, /Developer is dependant on where you installed Xcode to.
If you’ve ever faced that truly … testing … task of needing to remove a whole heap of hidden .svn directories from a folder and it’s myriad subfolders because some idiot did an SVN Checkout rather than Export to a development server, you’ll love this Terminal command:
find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
You can run it from inside any folder to remove all .svn folders from it and all it’s child folders. Beautiful.
Rdio.com launched version 1.0 of their iPhone app today. It’s quite the improvement over the previous version which I thought worked fantastic. Next I am hoping to see a lot more content for Canadian users. It’s funny that there’s a great majority of Canadian artists that are not available due to licensing restrictions.
I recently purchased a DroboFS and one of the only hiccups I have had with it is getting it’s shares automounted properly under OS X 10.6.4. Surfing the net there is all kinds of lame-ass solutions such as adding the shares to the Login Items profiles, which works if your user gets automatically logged in on system boot, but then you get a Finder window that pops up. Rather annoying when other solutions are possible. Normally in past environments I would just add the share to the /etc/fstab file and you’d be cooking with fire, but I wasn’t having any luck with this DroboFS.
