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#86: Building bsddb.so for Python
Solved!on February 22, 2010, 12:31 AM UTC — from 
yliu
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I want to build the _bsddo.so module for my Python install, and link it to an installation of BerkeleyDB 4.8 on my OS X 10.6 machine. OS X 10.6 comes with Python 2.6 and a stock bsddb module, but does not ship the actual binary _bsddb.so, which makes the entire...
#79: DigitalColor Meter RGB color space defaults on Snow Leopard
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on December 26, 2009, 03:29 AM UTC — from yliu
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OS X ships with a nifty digital pixel color meter called DigitalColor Meter, which outputs the color of the pixel under your cursor in whichever color space you choose (Hex Vlaue, 8-Bit for web development, for example). In Leopard, your preferred color space...
#74: Building just readline.so for Python on OS X
Solved!on December 20, 2009, 07:40 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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I want to build the readline.so module for my Python install, and link it to an installation of GNU readline. As much as I dislike the entire "what's Free" argument about this nonsense, readline simply works better with packages such as IPython than the crummy...
#67: Unknown password when importing a client certificate in Firefox
Solved!on October 06, 2009, 12:52 AM UTC — from yliu
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When installing a StartCom client certificate for Firefox, a box pops up with "Please enter the password that was used to encrypt this certificate backup". I tried my root password, admin password, a blank password, and Firefox Master Password to no effect...
#65: Default password for X509Anchors on OS X Leopard
Solved!on October 01, 2009, 11:43 AM UTC — from yliu
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The System keychain X509Anchors (in /System/Library/Keychains) is locked by a password. This password is not the system-level administrator password. I need to unlock it.
#61: MacBook Pro network access slow on battery in 10.5.8
Solved!on August 08, 2009, 10:30 PM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.8 on the MacBook Pro 15 in (early 2008), my wireless network speed plunges when on battery power, compared with adapter power. Ping to the nearest network router on AirPort Extreme should be ~1ms (and is when on adapter power...
#49: Subversion 1.6.2 explodes on first network access
Solved!on May 28, 2009, 06:05 AM UTC — from yliu
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After compiling Subversion 1.6.2 from source on OS X 10.5 Leopard, the compilation is apparently successful, but svn dies when it tries to connect to the network for the first time. Crash log reports that symbols are missing from libneon.dylib.
Crash report...
#32: MenuMeters Memory Meter reports negative page faults
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on April 15, 2009, 04:25 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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The latest build of MenuMeters (1.3 as of this posting) can report negative values for its VM Statistics. For example, the page faults value can roll over INT_MAX to report -1,800,000 page faults, when I've ran the same OS X session for ~18 days. While it...
#30: Eclipse fails to launch with shared library error
Solved!on April 02, 2009, 06:49 AM UTC — from yliu
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After upgrading to Eclipse 3.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5, I receive an error message at launch:
The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library
#23: Compile tsocks 1.8.x on OS X
on March 05, 2009, 02:49 PM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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One persistent problem that I run into is that I need to access certain network resources through a SOCKS proxy server. This works great for web resources, but I also need SSH and Subversion access. SOCKS support in these tools are woefully inadequate or...