Well, Chrome asked me what to do. Should I allow Skype to be launched & run off to do as the website instructed (a possible security risk)? Or should I “Do Nothing”? I accidentally clicked “Do Nothing”.

Now… what that did was seemingly permanently disable my ability to use the Skype-specific magnet URI.

To re-enable this function, I found that inside:
/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/
… is a file named “Local State”.

Inside there, I found a key “protocol_handler” with a hash table, and inside that was:
“excluded_schemes”: {…, “skype”: true, … }

I changed that to “false”, shut down & relaunched Chrome.

Boom. Works.

To get namazu to index hidden files:
1. Copy the sample config file somewhere.
2. Uncomment & change the line:
$DENY_FILE = “.*\\.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg)|.*\\.tar\\.gz|core|.*\\.bak|.*~|\\..*|\x23.*”;
… to:
$DENY_FILE = “.*\\.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg)|.*\\.tar\\.gz|core|.*\\.bak|.*~|\x23.*”;
… i.e., remove the |\\..* part.
3. When you run mknmz, make sure to tell it to use your new config file. I.e., ... -f /path/to/namazu.conf

ALSO…
remember to include that semicolon after your $DENY_FILE or $ALLOW_FILE pattern declarations. Without it, shit won’t work properly.

ALSO…
when programatically calling mknmz to create the index or namazu to perform a search, be sure to use /full/path/from/root as well as enclosing your query in “quotes”.

libdmtx is a library for generating Data Matrix images.

Steps require to install the libdmtx package and python wrapper on CentOS 5.2

yum install ImageMagick
yum install ImageMagick-devel
yum install python-imaging

Untar source, enter libdmtx-x.x.x directory.
./configure
make
(as root) make install

cd wrapper/python/
python setup.py install
/sbin/ldconfig /usr/local/lib
python test.py

Celebrate!

/sbin/ethtool -p eth1

You’re welcome.

What sorcery is this?

The pat answer on the Adobe forums is that some other process or program is running which maintains a connection to the Internet, which in turn causes the Operating System to disable these modifier keys under the banner of security. Now that sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me.

But when I shut down Firefox & bounced Illustrator, everything returned to normal.

WTF?

I launch it from his Dock… crash log reports BAD_ACCESS_something-or-other. No help there.
I try trashing his terminal preferences; no dice.
I downloaded iTerm2, as suggested by Adam, and bring that up on his Mac. It works.

So without thinking, I type: open /Applications/Terminal.app [Enter] into iTerm2, and it crashes as it has been.

Wait a minute.

open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app [Enter] … Success.

Somehow, Terminal.app got copied into /Applications (mistakenly), and that’s what his Dock shortcut was calling. Kill that copy, kill the shortcut, drag to Dock from /Applications/Utilities, and all is well.

I have no idea why having the app exist in a different place would cause this behavior… some mysterious callback shit, no doubt.

Following standard operating procedure results in:
Error: Can not listen for Adapter on (‘localhost’, 8086)

Make sure to disable or otherwise adjust SELinux and firewall settings to allow connections on port 80 and 8086.

Inside the WebKit-related <Location > directive of the Apache configuration file, use “127.0.0.1″ instead of “localhost”.

Inside your WebKit working directory, find the Configs directory, and edit AppServer.config. Change the line:
Host = “localhost”
… to…
Host = “”
… for listening on all interfaces, as the file describes.

Bounce both servers; experience victory.

Investigation: SSH into Xserve, verify permissions of folder, its contents and its parents, ownerships, group memberships, etc. Everything appears to be in order. What could be the problem?

Solution: Remove trailing space in folder name. Instead of “Software_DD-MM-YYYY”, creator of folder has named it “Software_DD-MM-YYYY ” with a space character at the end. Removal of space at the end = contents viewable.

Stupid computers.

Me: The R will win.

Gregg: Yeah, 100%. It’s a certainty.

Me: The ONLY thing that would guarantee a more landslide win for R in my town was if the D candidate was a proven illegal who killed a nun in a DUI accident and got caught fingerbanging her corpse by a crowd of third graders on their way to sunday school.

Gregg: I CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN.