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Wow.

Formatting a drive for OS 9 drivers when host machine cannot boot OS 9 (Mac OS X)

MacInTouch Home Page: "Following up on the issue of lost Mac OS 9 disk support, readers offered a workaround that uses the Unix command line:

[Wayne Linder] The only computers that will show the option to place Mac OS 9 drivers onto a hard drive while formatting are computers that will boot Mac OS 9 themselves. However, you can do this via the Terminal via the diskutil command. Here's an example, assuming you want the drive to be named Bob and the BSD name is 'disk1:' (findable under System Profiler - look for BSD Name under the interface of your connected drive).

sudo diskutil eraseDisk HFS Bob OS9Drivers disk1

That should result in a newly-formatted disk with Mac OS 9 drivers. The usual caveats apply while mucking around in the Terminal.

[Samuel Smith] Any Mac OS X Panther Mac can format any drive with Mac OS 9 disk support (OS9 Wrappers); you just have to use the command line.
To do it, you must login with an administrator account. Open Terminal, and type df - you will get something like this:

Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s9 156286104 131354216 24419888 84% /
devfs 222 222 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [247] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [250] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [250] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk1s9 156286104 130560384 25725720 84% /Volumes/ABEHD
/dev/disk2s3 157013088 29323962 127689126 19% /Volumes/SamHD1
/dev/disk2s5 233152182 72232390 160919792 31% /Volumes/SamHD2

Note the /dev/diskxxx name of the volume you wish to reformat - for example, ABEHD is /dev/disk1s9.

* Open Disk Utility
* Select the volume (not hard drive) you wish to format and click on the unmount button
* Go back to Terminal
* Type in:

sudo newfs_hfs -w -J -b 512 -v volname /dev/diskxxx

where volname is the human-friendly name that you see on the desktop and diskxxx is the device name shown by the df command above. So, to reformat ABEHD:

sudo newfs_hfs -w -J -b 512 -v ABEHD /dev/disk1s9

The -w adds the OS9 wrappers
The -J makes it journaled
The -b 512 sets the block size to something smaller than the default 4096 so you can fit more files on a disk. If you prefer the default then don't include the -b 512. If you set the blocksize to smaller than 4096, it will complain that it is not optimal but will still work. (I don't think you can set the block size to anything smaller than 512 which is the sector size on most drives.)
* Go back to DiskUtility, select the grayed-out volume, and click the Mount button.

Voila, you have a hard drive with Mac OS 9 wrappers."

Sun's Java Apps page

Remote Apps Webpage

For years every installation of Sun's Java runtime environment for Windows has included a Java WebApp tool. The tool goes to this page and installs the Java apps (.jnlp) referenced here. The page includes the developers email address in the footer; it's not very fancy.

It seems like an irresistible target for hackers. I hope that server is awfully secure.

I tried seeing what the apps do nowadays. When I checked years ago they were worthless toys. It takes a very long time to install them now ...

On the unreliability of AMEX services ...

Our System is Not Responding

* You may experience intermittent delays. We apologize for this inconvenience.
* While we are working to correct the problem, you can:
o Try again by hitting the Back, Refresh or Reload buttons on your web browser
o Come back later

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This is the 2nd time in four days I've tried to pay my AMEX bill and found their system is down. I'd like AMEX to owe me $10 every time this happens to compensate for the hassle. Multiply that by a million customers and maybe they'd invest in better systems.

GraphicConverter beta fixes OS X induced duplicate EXIF orientation tag

GraphicConverter beta release

context menu item to remove double orientation tags added

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This is the 2nd or 3rd feature I've asked Thorsten Lemke about that he's added to GC. You don't get that kind of service from Photoshop! I hardly ever get the chance to send the guy money, since he asks for a pittance of an upgrade fee only once every few years.

One of the previous requests I had was for a quick way to create copies of images that were cropped for printing. Thorsten added a feature that makes quick work of chopping large numbers of images for making 4x6 and other print styles.

This new feature fixes a problem Apple inflicted on users of their Image Capture utility. In several versions of OS X the Image Capture utility duplicated the EXIF orientation tag while auto-rotating an image. So images ended up with the original tag plus an EXIF=1 (top left) tag. This confused some image editing and printing software. Basically Image Capture corrupted the JPEG EXIF header on cameras (Canon for example) that sensed image orientation and modified the orientation tag. Some versions of iPhoto tried to rotate the image a 2nd time and really mangled things.

Apple quietly fixed this in an OS X release, but they never released a utility to repair all the images with corrupted tags. Now there will be one with the next release of GC.

What a great piece of software. Please charge me an upgrade fee Thorsten!

My adventures with Blojsom

Quick Notes Blog: October 2004

Ok, I give up. I burned about 4 hours learning about the state of blog servers. I liked Blojsom because it installed under a java web server (Tomcat) and because it's the starting point for the future OS X Tiger integrated browser.

Ultimately though I gave up on it. I can see why Apple is going to use it in Tiger, but for now:

1. This is WAY too raw for a non-engineer to setup and run safely -- unless one has a lot of time to learn about it. For example -- there really doesn't appear to be a way in the GUI admin console to DELETE a post. Hmm. That's kind of a major omission. I also removed the "default" user since I wasn't using it -- uh-oh, That destroyed my site. I'm sure it's easy to fix by editing the config files directly -- but that's not going to work for me.

2. Most of the blog clients I tried had one problem or the other working with it. I think everything in the XP world of blogging is raw. OS X apps are much more mature and better tested.

3. There don't seem to be any true bookmarklets for Blojsom. That's critical. My potential users are NOT going to install software and they are NOT going go to a special site to create a posting.

I've spent way too much time on this problem -- including running through a few open source syndication servers. I think there are some good solutions, but they require far too much installation overhead for my uses. I suspect the integrated Tiger server will be JUST what I want, but I'm not going to buy an OS X server for my employer (even if they permitted it!).

Really, what I want is something that combines the brilliant simplicity of Google's Blogger with the ease of installation & initial setup of Blojsom.

Update: Just as I was about to pull the plug I saw very quick responses to my inquiries from the Blojsom's developer. They may address some of the key issues and are evaluating the problems I ran into. Maybe they just needed a grouchy end-user like me.

I think Blojsom has the right approach. Tomcat/JBoss with a WAR web app is the right deployment for a lot of small business and corporate settings -- and only Blojsom does this. If they can address the key issues they'll have a product they can sell, as well as provide free via the BSD license.

So I won't quit just yet -- especially if they can build me the bookmarklet they've promised!

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