WebM and VP8 land in Chromium

WebM and VP8 land in Chromium: "A developer preview of WebM, a high-quality, open, freely implementable, and web-optimized video format was announced today. Initial support for WebM, including its video codec VP8 will be checked into Chromium later tonight. You can try it by building Chromium yourself or watch for it in the dev channel build in the coming weeks.

Posted by Jim Bankoski, Engineering Manager and Frank Galligan, Tech Lead

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Change Snow Leopard NTFS to be Read Write

Copy from Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
Rename the original /sbin/mount_ntfs tool:

sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig

Create a script like this:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@“

save the script to /sbin/mount_ntfs

sudo chown root:wheel /sbin/mount_ntfs
sudo chmod 755 /sbin/mount_ntfs

Enjoy R/W access to NTFS volumes...

In case you don't like it

sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig /sbin/mount_ntfs

and everything is back to R/O.

Move Podcast Producer to different hostname

sudo changeip old_ip new_ip old_hostname new_hostname what somewhat
But still the link to Podcast URL still does not work.

Google Search 'change "Podcast Library URL"' give some insight available at Apple Discussion Forum

The key message copied here:

Check /Library/PodcastProducer/Shared/Server/member_preferences_.plist
There should be entries for server_host, tunnel_agent_host & tunnel_server_host that will need to be updated while PCP2 is shut down, which should handle it.

It works!

Single Sign-On Unavailable - Mac OS X Snow Leopard Open Directory

Check this out

This can be fixed by running
/usr/sbin/changeip which is an python script

seem I need to change the new hostname and new hostname to be different temporary for the changeip to modify some configuration files to be effective.

Rerun Apple Setup

There are files in /var/db
ls -al .*Done
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 0 Apr 2 17:34 .AppleSetupDone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Apr 2 17:33 .AutoBindDone
---------- 1 root wheel 0 Apr 2 09:57 .WOLShutOffDone

Will this help re-run the setup

Bringing improved support for Adobe Flash Player to Google Chrome

Bringing improved support for Adobe Flash Player to Google Chrome: "Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used web browser plug-in. It enables a wide range of applications and content on the Internet, from games, to video, to enterprise apps.

The traditional browser plug-in model has enabled tremendous innovation on the web, but it also presents challenges for both plug-ins and browsers. The browser plug-in interface is loosely specified, limited in capability and varies across browsers and operating systems. This can lead to incompatibilities, reduction in performance and some security headaches.

That’s why we are working with Adobe, Mozilla and the broader community to help define the next generation browser plug-in API. This new API aims to address the shortcomings of the current browser plug-in model. There is much to do and we’re eager to get started.

As a first step, we’ve begun collaborating with Adobe to improve the Flash Player experience in Google Chrome. Today, we’re making available an initial integration of Flash Player with Chrome in the developer channel. We plan to bring this functionality to all Chrome users as quickly as we can.

We believe this initiative will help our users in the following ways:

• When users download Chrome, they will also receive the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. There will be no need to install Flash Player separately.
• Users will automatically receive updates related to Flash Player using Google Chrome’s auto-update mechanism. This eliminates the need to manually download separate updates and reduces the security risk of using outdated versions.
• With Adobe's help, we plan to further protect users by extending Chrome's “sandbox” to web pages with Flash content.

Improving the traditional browser plug-in model will make it possible for plug-ins to be just as fast, stable, and secure as the browser’s HTML and JavaScript engines. Over time this will enable HTML, Flash, and other plug-ins to be used together more seamlessly in rendering and scripting.

These improvements will encourage innovation in both the HTML and plug-in landscapes, improving the web experience for users and developers alike. To read more about this effort, you can read this post on the Flash Player blog.

Developers can download the Chrome developer channel version with Flash built in here. To enable the built-in version of Flash, run Chrome with the --enable-internal-flash command line flag.

Posted by Linus Upson, VP, Engineering

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resize netboot image for MacOSX server

resize netbook image

Gentoo stage3 with Synology

Follow http://dsmg600.info/howto:chroot_gentoo and check

ash shell in Synology seem prevent to call chroot saved in other directory. Copy chroot from the bunzipped stage3 to /bin/ will solve the problem

Bridged networking (aka "shared physical device")

configure bridge for virtualization

vmware-rawdiskCreator - Use entire disk instead of a single partition

Follow this vmware-rawdiskCreator - Use entire disk instead of a single partition

fdisk /dev/disk?
Disk: /dev/disk? geometry: 977/32/63 xxx sectors

/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s xxx -a lsilogic -t 1 rawdisk.vmdk
rm rawdisk-s*.vmdk

edit the only file rawdisk.vmdk and replace the two lines inside

createType="fullDevice"
RW xxx FLAT "/dev/disk?" 0

Seem vmware-rawdiskCreator can do the same
/Library/Application\ Support/Vmware\ Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk? 1 lsilogic

modify lines inside
# Extent description
RW 63 FLAT "s320g-pt.vmdk" 0
RW 409600 FLAT "/dev/disk0s1" 0
RW 624727682 ZERO
RW 5103 ZERO

replace with
RW 625142448 figures FLAT "/dev/disk0" 0

stardom NAS gcc and glibc version

GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.5, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 3.4.4.
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.11.12-fa0 system on 2005-09-07.
Available extensions:
GNU libio by Per Bothner
crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy
BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc
NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
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build Chromium OS and Chrome

Still fail at building chrome from source. Cheat and pull the binary to bundle with the OS and other 300+ pkg into an USB. Let see
Try with gentoo amd64 to build chrome

Subversion over https for Snow Leopard Server

Instructions from Apple

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Subversion/Repository
mkdir -p /tmp/project/branches
mkdir -p /tmp/project/tags
mkdir -p /tmp/project/trunk
sudo svnadmin create /Library/Subversion/Repository/project1
svn import /tmp/project/ files:///Library/Subversion/Repository/project1 -m "Initial import"
sudo chown -R www:admin /Library/Subversion/Repository
sudo chmod -R ug+rwX,o= /Library/Subversion/Repository
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites/0001_any_443_.conf

content of 0001_any_443_.conf

DAV svn
SVNParentPath /Library/Subversion/Repository
SVNListParentPath on

Don't enable WebDAV inside Web->Site(443)->Option as suggested by check this out

yum list extras

yum list extras [glob_exp1] [...]
List the packages installed on the system that are not available
in any yum repository listed in the config file.