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bad interpreter: No such file or directory

January 31, 2012 Work/Geek

Categorized by me as “WTF???”. I did have sh installed in the bin-folder, but as usual, Google is my friend, found this perl snippet

perl -i -pe's/\r$//;' <file name here>

Solution provided by vbrummet

British pair arrested in U.S. on terror charges over Twitter jokes

January 31, 2012 Anything but the other

If you in the nearby future, or I would guess I could cut the word “nearby”, have plans to travel to the U.S, you must not under any circumstances offend the country in any way, what so ever. If you do you might end up as a suspected terrorist and be refused to enter the country…forever. It happened to a British pair since the guy had written some funny Twitter tweets…read all about it in DailyMail

Snow Leopard – Trash can won’t empty

January 30, 2012 Work/Geek

For some reason that the “Secure empty trash”-function refuses to tell me, it would not totally empty my trash on our Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I stumbled across this Youtube-clip that got me started http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTY8kHd0Hw [video:youtube:lPTY8kHd0Hw]
Point is that you need to go to the terminal and do a

cd ./.Trash
sudo rm -rf *.*

to get the files deleted. If you watch the video don’t worry about all the warnings of how dangerous the command is and also the thing he says that the command can have change – it won’t change, this is a basic Linux/Unix command. Anyhow, this helped me out and I got to empty the trash totally. I guess it is a feature, but I hate the fact that it cannot empty my trash without me using command line sudo rm…