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Cycling home from work yesterday

Sport

Yesterday I broke my own record with something between 5 or 10 minutes “the wrong direction” setting the new longest time home record, due to heavy snow. Started out from Fornebu I had to struggle quite hard, but from Lysaker to the opera building the plows had been working pretty hard. From the opera to Bryn I had to use the road, so that went without any problems…but then it got worse. Had to walk up from Bryn to Hellerud, then using the road to Haugerud and yet again walk the last kilometer since no one had done any attempt to remove any snow in Haugerudhagan.

Stopping at the harbor, there is a boat out there

Pretty good conditions alongside the harbor.

Passing Middelalderparken, had to walk about 100 meters, not easy to cycle here

My bike starting to get more and more heavy due to all the snow and ice

Had to walk…

UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: No such file or directory

Work/Geek

Got the error yesterday while trying to install WebSphere using RAFW on an old Linux installation, having the media-folder mounted from a network share on a Windows XP-box. I had unzipped the tar-files containing the installation binaries on my own laptop, then just copied them using Windows Explorer to the pc where I had shared out the folder. Apparently it should be no problem doing this, I could without any problem navigate down the folder structure on the Linux machine viewing all the files. But still I got errors such as the

UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: No such file or directory

and later while changing the log level to =ALL, I found

/usr/RAFW/product/actions/install/was/common/install_update_was_common.xml:89: /usr/RAFW/media/linux/X32/was/70/patches/was70_fp13 not found.
but, it was there, I know…

So, after receiving a tip from my colleagues, I deleted the media tree, using ftp transferred the tar-files containing the binaries to the pc with the share, installed Cygwin and unpacked the files using the tar command. Voila…problem solved…stupid, stupid!!! But problem gone, on to the next…

About 12 hours of downtime

Work/Geek

Yesterday my homepage experienced about 12 hours of downtime due to the hosting server host.hostean.com being unavailable. Not a good thing, but always good to figure out that it is not my fault. Have not seen any explanations of what the root cause was, but as I could see MySQL was struggling pretty hard.

Imperial State Electric in concert yesterday

Music

Yesterday me, Espen and Sigurd went to see Imperial State Electric live in concert at John Dee with their lead singer Nicke Royale, formerly known from the great band Hellacopters. Really love the energy they created on stage, very limited small talk in between songs, play one then on to the next – just as it should be. Just like when Nicke performed together with Hellacopters at Hove some years ago, they played about five songs, then he said “Tjänare Norje”, and kept on playing!!! How cool is that??

Serena Ryder – Is it O.K

Music

Serena Ryder, bought by chance, mostly because she did a cover of Bruce Springsteen and his song Racing In the Street. A bit country I would describe it as, kinda like Melissa Etheridge maybe. Elin did really like the cover art on the inside of the cd cover

Mac OS X: Yet another update on the issue of corrupted home folder

Work/Geek

After successfully getting access to all my files using the install DVD I did a reinstall. When finished I created a user with the same user id as before. Then logged on and became a bit confused by the fact that it had the same wallpaper as before the crash. Turned out that the reinstall had not deleted anything in the old home folder, and when creating an identical userid I got access to all the old files.

A bit surprised by the fact that a complete reinstall is not really what I thought it should be, but hey…who cares right now!!!

Mac OS X: No need to kick it….yet!

Work/Geek

Must admit that I’m still mad because our Macbook Pro decided to crash and not give me access to all our files, but at least I’ve just found a workaround.

Using the Install DVD, insert it and reboot while holding the c-button (makes your Macbook boot from CD/DVD). When the menu appears, from Utilities choose Terminal. With root privileges you have full access to the disk. Then insert a memory stick with enough space and voila. You will find both your memory stick and your hard drive in the folder /Volumes

Using copy (cp) you can copy all the files missing, and a voila…just reinstall the whole thing…and then up and running again.

Still pissed that the home folder got corrupted, but at least I managed to save all the files which I did not have a backup of (I rule!!!)

Mac OS X: Can I kick it?????

Work/Geek

“….The file system directory in any of these disk image formats can become corrupted. This is usually as the result of an improper shutdown….”

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/fixfilevault.html

Improper shutdown my ass!!! Yesterday evening I started my rsync-script which moved about 50 GB of flac-files from our MacBook to the external disk, which I have done many times before. Also knowing that after a period of inactivty after the script have finished the Mac would do a shutdown. No problem at all. So this morning I got up and wanted to unmount the disk, but for some reason it would not accept my well known password. After a few tries I rebooted the machine and voila…no account other than the guest account was available.

Did some research during the day and realized that I would maybe have been able to get around the problem if logging in using another account and then enable root…but…using the guest account, seems impossible. Fu¤%!!

Luckily I do not think we have lost much data, but am I really pissed – YES!!! We have bought according to my standards an expensive computer with an operating system as expensive as the hardware, and then I find info saying “…disk image formats can become corrupted…”. If it had been my Linux-distro which I have costed me…zero…I could have managed, but OS X…aaaaarrrghhhh!!!

So complete reinstall seems to be the only way…shoot!!!

At my doctors office

Anything but the other

Just had to take a picture of this poster providing information about flu, where someone had added a small piece of information “Look up!! Youtube Chemitrails!!!” Conspiracy theories all over. Better “Look to your orb for the warning”

And the old man, down by the river
Well he walks up and he walks on down
To the spaceship that’s parked at your doorstep
And it’s waiting to take you away now

Hjem