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Radio UserLand 'Slacker Bug' Not Fixed in v8.1

Based on the previous upstreaming test post, I know that the 'one-month slacker' bug was not fixed in Radio UserLand version 8.1.

Q: WTF is the 'one-month slacker' bug?
A: If you write a post, whether to the home page or one of your categories, on a day which is exactly one month after your last post, Radio UserLand gets sick. Although the new post is entered into the database with the correct date, it is rendered to the web site using the date of your month-ago post.

So, all you slackers, don't let the moss grow on your categories or your home page. My test post today (10/7/04) was one month after the last post (9/7/04) in my Items To Review category, triggering the bug. My test post from 10/7 appears on 9/7, along with my 'real' 9/7 post.

This second test post is also going to all categories.

These Are Not The Droids You're Looking For

This is not the post for which you are looking, but will test Radio UserLand upstreaming after the version 8.1 upgrade. This is the first post since returning from Gnomedex 4. Later, I'll test post back-dating (via Mark Paschal's unsupported Radio To The Past) for my Gnomedex comments. This test is posted to all categories.

Weekend Blogger

weekend mode.... [jenett.radio]

Mac OS X Fragmentation

Notes and Tips: Mac OS X Fragmentation. Here's the official word on Mac OS X file fragmentation from Apple. [MacInTouch] [dws.]

Salvaging MacOS files in a UNIX World

Salvaging MacOS files in a UNIX World. Abstract: Mac Users usually don't use suffixes such as .doc - after all, we've got resource forks! But what to do, if such a file (or thousands!) ends up on a *NIX machine (such as OS X Server!) without that ressource fork? O... [macosxhints] [dws.]

An overview of a generic UNIX filesystem hierarchy

An overview of a generic UNIX filesystem hierarchy. Did you ever wonder what exactly should be in the /usr/bin directory? Or maybe what goes inside the /usr/local/sbin directory? I found a great resource of the standards for UNIX describing all the directories in a basic UNIX ... [macosxhints] [dws.]

Report: Mac OS X 10.3.3

Report: Mac OS X 10.3.3. We've got a ton of advice again today about the Mac OS X 10.3.3 update. [MacInTouch] [dws.]

Mac OS X: Your Mac won't start up

Mac OS X: Your Mac won't start up.

Nothing can be more frustrating than turning on your Mac only to find that it won't start up. Instead of seeing the Finder, you see a blue or gray screen, an icon of a broken folder, a kernel panic, a flashing question mark, or a computer that just sits there. What are you going to do now? A million things could make your Mac act this way. Don't worry. It's usually just a simple issue you can fix yourself. [Apple Computer Top Mac OS X Documents]

[A Father and his two girls] [dws.]

Mac OS X: Keyboard shortcuts

Mac OS X: Keyboard shortcuts offers common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. By meryl@lockergnome.com (Meryl). [Lockergnome’s Technology News]

Aunt Tillie's OS X adventure

In a pair of recent essays, Eric Raymond tears into the open source community -- rightly so -- for its failure to deliver software that Aunt Tillie can use. He's spot on. One of his comments got me wondering, though:

If the designers were half-smart about UI issues (like, say, Windows programmers) they'd probe the local network neighborhood and omit the impossible entries. If they were really smart (like, say, Mac programmers) they'd leave the impossible choices in but gray them out, signifying that if your system were configured a bit differently you really could print on a Windows machine, assuming you were unfortunate enough to own one. [Eric Raymond: An Open-Source Horror Story]

As it happens, I'd never tried printing to a Windows XP queue on my home network from my Mac, and I wondered how well those Mac programmers Eric talks about handled that case. So here, for your Flash viewing pleasure, is Aunt Tillie's OS X Adventure. ... [Jon's Radio]

Apple RSS Feeds

Apple has put up a web page of all the RSS feeds it offers. [FS Consulting Inc's Weblog]

10.3: Create bootable ISO Image CDs using Disk Utility

This is simple - but I haven't seen it described quite this way before. I made a couple of coasters before trying this particular approach. Now that Disk Copy is merged into Disk Utility, this seems to work reliably if you ... [macosxhints] [dws.]

New Book - How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther

How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther is a thorough presentation of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther for beginners and intermediate users.

In this hands-on guide, How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther, Kirk McElhearn shows his readers how to get the most out of OS X Panther. Features such as Exposé, iChat AV, .Mac, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD are explained and illustrated in detail. The book provides easy methods for networking and customizing the Mac and important details about computer security, such as encryption solutions. [MacMegasite] [dws.]

Need to review this "external

Need to review this "external hard drive with Radio" thread:

Re: Utilize Apple iDisk for Radio?. Simone Bettin wrote a WebDAV Client Tool for Radio. This solution does not require you to mount your iDisk. Once I got it configured I never had to look at it again. In other words, it works beautifully.

http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$7026#7046 [Radio UserLand Messages]

RSS Feeds from Apple

Apple has posted a very useful page listing all of their available RSS feeds including Knowledge Base articles & downloads. You can subscribe to any of these feeds in a news reader such as NetNewsWire to have the latest headlines delivered to your desktop. [MacMegasite] [dws.]