Rich Hickey, author of Clojure.
He's right. Except that state that can be updated from multiple places in an unfathomable way is far more painful to debug than spaghetti code that's all on page.
BootCamp Drivers direct download—further help
If you've downloaded bootcamp drivers for Macs to run Windows 7 or 8, but still have problems, here's my summary of the main issues and solutions I know of:
- The download file won't open; or it doesn't seem to work somehow; or doesn't contain all the drivers you expect Do the download again using a download manager because sometimes the download appears to finish but hasn't really. There are a couple of download managers I know of for OS X:
Folx by Eltima, who have been doing Mac software for years iGetter has been working well for a decade - You get an error message saying that the drivers can't be installed on this computer model.In this case you may have one of 3 problems:
- You clicked the wrong download link. Check the instructions on finding your ModelIdentifier again carefully, and try again.
- Some Macs only get drivers for 32-bit versions of Windows and some only get drivers for 64-bit versions of Windows so if you install the wrong one, you'll have to start again.
- Older models don't support 64 bit Windows.
- Consult Apple's list at this page from Apple from June 2012.
- See if this page helps: Michael Anastasiou : BootCamp x64 is unsupported on this computer model.
- Late 2012 Macs appear to only get drivers for 64 bit Windows, in spite of the Apple website not saying that. In this case, you'll have to re-install a 64-bit Windows version.
- Try the Everymac page for a summary of which computers run 32/64 bit windows
- Older models don't support 64 bit Windows.
- Back to item one – your download didn't work properly. Get a download manager and try it again
- If you no longer have OS X on your machine, or if you did the download in Windows anyway, then opening-a-bootcamp-driver-download-on-windows-7-or-8-with-7-zip is the page that explains how to open the pkg file and the dmg file in Windows
- And finally the really obscure one: All you get in your download is drivers for a Motoral modem. I'm not sure what's going on here, so I'm grasping at straws but you could try this: in the download URL, replace the http://swcdn.apple.com/ by using nslookup to to see if you can change which server is 'really' serving your download, for instance:
http://apple.vo.llnwd.net/ http://swcdn.apple.com.akadns.net/ http://95.140.227.134/
Build mod_jk for centos
I reduced it to a script:
#!/bin/bash # Build the mod_jk apache tomcat connector from src tarball and install it # set -x srcball=$1 if [ -z "$srcball" ]; then echo The source tarball was not given - expected something like \"tomcat-connectors-versionxxx-src\" to be passed as parameter exit 1 fi pushd /tmp curl http://mirror.rmg.io/apache//tomcat/tomcat-connectors/jk/$srcball.tar.gz -O if [ ! -f /tmp/$srcball.tar.gz ] then echo $srcball.tar.gz not found in /tmp/. Couldn\'t build mod_jk exit 2 fi tar xvf $srcball.tar.gz cd $srcball/native ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs make cp ./apache-2.0/mod_jk.so /etc/httpd/modules/ popd
Sadly, the page whence I got my info has shuffled off its mortal coil and departed this interweb.
Make OS X Spaces work properly
For years I have shunned Apple's OS X Spaces as useless. I was excited about them for a good 2 minutes, which is how long it took to find out that if I had 2 spaces open, and I opened a browser in the 2nd space, then it flipped back to the 1st space. Completely not the point of having Spaces.
Until today. I found this setting in Mission Control:
So I un-ticked it. Perfect. Now I can have a space for work, a space for homework, with browser and mail and other windows open in each space, and it no longer flips between them except I want it to.