Mutant's Mumblings http://www.gammaworld.org A lone wasteland mutant... Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:17:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 O’Reilly MacDevCenter apparently dead http://www.gammaworld.org/2009/07/oreilly-macdevcenter-apparently-dead/ http://www.gammaworld.org/2009/07/oreilly-macdevcenter-apparently-dead/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:15:41 +0000 admin http://www.gammaworld.org/2009/07/oreilly-macdevcenter-apparently-dead/ I rely on O’Reilly for a lot of technical resources. I was pretty disappointed to find that they haven’t updated their Mac area for almost a year. I guess I expected better of them, but Mac doesn’t appear to be a big priority for them. When I went out looking for XCode books and they had barely anything. How disappointing. http://macdevcenter.com/

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Unresponsive Script

Script: chrome://ar/content/aroverlay.js:74

It is due to some incompatibility with how the addon works and GMail’s interface. I’ve not found a replacement for this functionality in Firefox 3.5. You can uninstall the addon or disable it and wait for an update. I submitted a bug to the developer.

]]> http://www.gammaworld.org/2009/07/aroverlay-js-gmail/feed/ 0 OpenOffice 3.x on Leopard 10.5.x http://www.gammaworld.org/2009/07/openoffice-3-x-on-leopard-10-5-x/ http://www.gammaworld.org/2009/07/openoffice-3-x-on-leopard-10-5-x/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:59:25 +0000 admin http://www.gammaworld.org/?p=9 So I’m a new Mac user… Yes, I’ve “switched”, someone put me in a commercial so I can be a dork.

Anywho, I determined I’m NOT using M$ Office for Mac and that I am going to make due with OpenOffice, and VMWare Fusion for running Office applications natively. Except…. OpenOffice was constantly freezing whenever you opened it. I have no love of MSOffice, so I REALLY want this gorram thing to work so I don’t have to boot up VMWare for anything other than an occasional non DirectX10 game. Everytime I go to load up OO Calc it freezes with the stupid pinwheel of death thingy.

So I spend a stupid amount of time working out issues like Java versions (which Apple handles in the most retarded fashion… EVAR), OO updates and finally find an inoccuous post that you have to startup your X11.app before you open OO. That seems to work, but in order to actually use and edit an Excel spreadsheet in OO you have to have a blank Calc sheet open first, then open up your Excel spreadsheet.

So — the solution that worked for me, on an iMac (9,1) Leopard 10.5.7, Java SE6 64bit, OpenOffice 3.1.0 is this:

  1. KEYBOARD HEADSMASH!
  2. Update Java manually from the OSX download site. (This one worked for me.)
  3. Open System Preferences and move the Java versions so that Java SE6 64bit is first
  4. Open your X11.app (I simply type X11 in spotlight)
  5. Open a blank Calc worksheet
  6. Open your Excel Spreadsheet.
  7. PROFIT!

ugh.. I’m pretty sure since I’m a new slobbering mac user I’ve done something to dork up my system that I had to run through these steps, but I will say that this link makes me believe I’m not the only clueless MAC’er out there to have this issue.

ONWARD!!

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So here I am, back to blogging. I’m hoping that this effort lasts longer than some of my other efforts.. I’ve started this blog in different incarnations no less than 4 times in the last 7 years.. blaaagh software I’ve used has been varied: Serendipity, Nucleus, Drupal, Moveable Type, Roller, then of course the bevy of online blogging sites like Y360, Typo, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, MySpace… ahhh.. the list goes on and on. I know these systems very well, and I ghost blog for other people, but never really kept it up myself. My longest run was 2002-2004.5, it was awesome I was really blogging a lot and enjoyed the shit out of it. Then a horrifying server explosion took out my blog and 234 engineers with it.. It was a dark day indeed, no one sent ME sympathy card…. :)

So here we go again, my own personal mumblings.. A mutant; mumbling in a wasteland where likely no one listens.

Wish me luck.

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