netatalk and os x playing up
I’ve spent my entire evening fixing my appletalk set up after I accidentally ‘upgraded’ my handcrafted netatalk with the stock ubuntu one. I crafted my own because the stock package doesn’t support encrypted passwords.
I’ve reinstalled, rebuild and rebooted netatalk on the server and I kept getting this error:
“The operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found. (Error code -35)”
Googling this error didn’t give me much and it took me a while to realize that googling for: error code -35 will give you no useful results do to the minus sign. In the end I discovered that it is not ubuntu but Apple to blame for the error. Apparently at some point in time the globalpreferences get fcked. So the solution is:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
Macbooks shock protection is shocking
Unfortunately I discovered today that the Hard Disc Shock Protection of my MacBook isn’t too solid. Since I’m moving around with crutches at the moment I do have a hard time carrying my laptop around the house. When I tried to put my laptop on the counter in the kitchen it slipped and fell down. It smacked nicely horizontal on the floor and I had some hope on HDSP, since this is exactly the situation it was designed for.
Unfortunately my screen showed a lovely horizontal stripe pattern which made me cringe, amplified by me involuntarily standing on my injured leg. Switching off and on gave a spark of hope when I heard the familiar startup sound of OS X. However after a few minutes it was still a gray screen. Verbose mode showed my that it was booting nicely until it was stopped by repeating occurrences of ‘disk0s2 0xe0030005′ messages which according to Google should prompt you to backup everything and get a new HDD. Unfortunately the backing up bit is too late, but next thing tomorrow will be the new HDD. I always assumed that nothing important on the laptop wasn’t backed up, so will see the coming days. I already discovered that I do have a backup of my taxes, unlike the ‘belastingdienst’ 