This is my first ILS landing into KPHL (Philly) from KABE (Allentown) with X-Plane on the VATSIM network.... This is after I misunderstood the runway that Approach told me to land on, and then he very calmly told me to 'go around' ... hehe

All I heard him say was I was approved for runway 27 ....  kphl, has a 27L and a 27R ...  I went for the L when I SHOULD have heard him tell me R .... anyway, he gave me another chance (on L this time, and I made it.

Tags: flightsim

If you're thinking about buying Neverwinter Nights 2 for the Mac.... don't. I have two Macs, both Intel. Both above the minimum requirements for Neverwinter Nights 2. The game installs fine, however upon start it just crashes and sticks some debug info in the Console.app. It does this on both my Mac Pro and my Macbook Pro. I started thinking about it and decided that it must be because I have a case sensitive filesystem. I sent an email to Aspyr asking them to let me know which files I should 'rename' or 'symlink' so that I can get the game running. Oh my, look at the B.S. I got back on this one:
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Tags: leopard, games

I've been TRYING to use Entourage 2008... I REALLY want it to work. However, so far I've wasted so much time it's absolutely amazing. I've had to rebuild my calendar from scratch so many times at this point I almost don't even need a calendar -- I've got everything memorized!

So, I used to use Snerdware's product for syncing my Exchange calendar with iCal, which definitely wasn't perfect, but was useable. I've upgraded to Leopard and some changes in Sync services has rendered their product useless. So I waited patiently for Microsoft's release of Office 2008. Man, is the joke on me or what?

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Tags: Macintosh, Microsoft

I wrote an applescript that you can use to ignore people not on your iChat buddy list ... shared here for those who may want the same functionality. Here is a picture of it enabled via iChat preferences. Save the applescript in your /Users/username/Library/Scripts/iChat folder as something like "Auto Accept Buddy.scpt" and then choose it as a Run AppleScript for 'Text Invitation' in your iChat Preferences.




Click through for the applescript.


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Tags: Applescript

UPDATED -- I attached the zip of the applescript application here as well (and it's updated to handle quitting cleanly as well as exception catching)

I decided to write a script that would automatically quit Xtorrent if my VPN tunnel went down. I wrote it so you could use any network connection (or should be able to), but only tested it with a VPN connection. The script runs in the background and will automatically spin up the VPN of your choosing and will kick up Xtorrent for you as well. It checks every 6 seconds to determine if the network connection is down, and if it is, it quits Xtorrent and tries to bring the connection back up. Once the connection comes back up, it will restart Xtorrent. Figured I'd share the Applescript in case anyone else out there was interested in the same thing. Click for the script.
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Tags: Macintosh, OSX, Applescript

My father, Howard J. Colson, Jr., retired recently and I got a copy of the newspaper article! I've read it several times and couldn't be a more proud son. I love you dad.

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iClip crashes and hands your system if you copy large blocks of text (100's of megabytes will easily reproduce the issues -- all I want is for iClip to IGNORE anything that big!). The only way to clean it up us to delete your iClip cache in the Preferences directory.

iClip does not work correctly with Java Applications (particularly Eclipse and IntelliJ). I have reproduced the issue, made a VIDEO of how to reproduce the issue and sent it to Inventive for them to investigate, and they have no desire to help. Instead they asked me to basically re-install their buggy application (that I've paid for by the way) and do their debugging for them.

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My company's (Synchronoss/SNCR) CEO (Steve Waldis) on the CNBC show "Fast Money".
Here it is.