Chris Carey

Find out which program is using which port on OS X

Chris Carey — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:53:51 +0000

lsof -i | grep LISTEN
or
lsof -i -P | grep

OS X Mountain Lion Background Image

Chris Carey — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:50:33 +0000

Excited for OS X Mountain Lion http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/

Here is the full size background image from the upcoming OS:

Using PHP to create a MySQL datetime

Chris Carey — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:02:51 +0000

For reference
$datetime = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Changing Calendar Colors on a Jailbroken iPhone running iOS 5

Chris Carey — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:54:00 +0000

iOS 5 changed the database that deals with Calendar colors. The value is now a hex value just like CSS uses (something like #fe6548)

- Install sqlite3 via Cydia (you must have Cydia in “Developer” mode so it lists the command-line utilities)

- ssh to your iPhone (as user mobile)

- Run sqlite3 and open the calendar database

iPhone:~ mobile$ sqlite3 /var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb

- Issue the SQL commands to change the calendar colors:

sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#9FC6E7' WHERE title = 'Chris Carey';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#FF7537' WHERE title = 'Work';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#D06B64' WHERE title = 'Important';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#B3DC6C' WHERE title = 'School';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#4986E7' WHERE title = 'Chris & Nasique';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#AC725E' WHERE title = 'Health';

-Quit sqlite3

.quit

-Quit ssh

exit

If needed, kill the calendar app or reboot the phone to get it to reload the new colors

Twitter API, PHP precision and scientific notation

Chris Carey — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:20:40 +0000

If you use PHP and the Twitter API, be on the lookout for this issue.

Twitter IDs are up to 141 quadrillion (141 million billion). These Twitter IDs exceed PHP’s default precision of 14. So your Twitter IDs could be converted to scientific notation by PHP.

A Twitter ID of 141675395434037249 will be stored as 1.41675395434037249E+17 once PHP gets it’s hands on it.

This could cause code that has been working great for a while to stop working.

Edit your php.ini and set precision to 20, or use
ini_set(‘precision’, 20);

Debian squeeze libmysqlclient.so.15

Chris Carey — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:48:40 +0000

Here is what you need if you have some binary on Debian squeeze which wants libmysqlclient.so.15

wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mysql-dfsg-5.0/libmysqlclient15off_5.0.51a-24+lenny5_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i libmysqlclient15off_5.0.51a-24+lenny5_i386.deb

mBuzz Maintenance Page

Chris Carey — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:53:53 +0000

mBuzz Maintenance page. The ‘Like’ and ‘Comment’ buttons both function. It sent the Likes and Comments into an IRC channel that could be seen during the upgrade process.

Show or Hide hidden files in Finder OS X

Chris Carey — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:39:01 +0000

Here is how it’s done via the Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder
How to Hide Hidden Files:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE killall Finder

Thanks Brooks Andrus

Google Search Globe

Chris Carey — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:26:21 +0000

Google is working on this open source data visualization project Search Globe, check it out. I’m a big fan of creative data visualization.

MacBook Air 2010 Faces of Death

Chris Carey — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:01:49 +0000

My MacBook Air 2010 has been crashing a lot. Here is a sampling of some of the screens of death I’ve experienced over the past 3 days.

I’ve read that this is an issue with the Macbook Air’s when attached to an external monitor (link). It certainly does seem more common when connected to a monitor. However, I’ve got the crash when using the laptop without connector as well.

Also, when connected to some monitors with VGA, there is a wavyness to the screen image which look like jagged vertical saw blades.

Blue screen of death (no external monitor):

White screen of death with magenta screen of death on the external monitor:

Red screen of death with white screen of death on the external monitor:

Frozen screen with white screen of death on the external monitor: