http://kusno.mudiarto.com A journey of a thousand miles begins with opening your door. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:33:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lately I have been having problem with slow DNS lookup while browsing. You can see it when I browse, it took some time in the "looking up for youtube.com ..." for example. I googled around and tried several solutions as suggested by others. Using Open DNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220) and verizon? (4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/10/os-x-leopard-dns-performance-problem-enabling-local-name-server/ I am collecting several useful mercurial tricks for me : - See diffs when committing in vim see : http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/DiffsInCommitMessageInVIM but instead of using the instruction as is, I have to modify the string a little bit to work in my mac: what I did is replacing : $EDITOR "$HGTMP/msg" "$HGTMP/diff" || exit $? with ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/07/mercurial-tips-tricks-for-mac/ In a lapse of judgment, I set my hard drive permission to disable readonly for all user, except myself & admin (Using hard drive get info - sharing & permission ). The reasoning was because I can see my root when I enable wireless sharing. It turned out to be a ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/07/reminder-to-self-never-set-the-permission-of-the/ I am missing batch renaming functionality that I used to have in windows -> "ren *.xxx *.xxx.orig" in my macbook. But using utility "mmv", I finally can do the same in mac & windows. You can download the utility from here : http://www.joel.lopes-da-silva.com/articles/computer-science-technology/62-tips-tricks/79-mmv-under-mac-os-x-leopard-for-mac-intel.html some example usage : http://debaday.debian.net/2007/06/13/mmv-mass-moving-and-renaming-files/ Tags: macmmv linux ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/07/batch-file-rename-in-mac/ Sometimes I got problem settings breakpoints. I found this solution in apple discussions: x As saggymac said: "The default setting for debugging libraries and frameworks is Load Symbols Lazily. On occasion this causes breakpoints to not be hit. Turning off this setting makes it take longer to start debugging, but hits breakpoints more ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/06/iphone-simulator-breakpoints-problem/ I am trying to compile a simple command line for experiment, and it is somehow not as obvious as I thought. Here is a the very simple program I copied somewhere from internet #import <Foundation/foundation.h> int main( int argc, const char* argv[]) { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; NSObject *object ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/06/objective-c-simple-command-line-program-and-compilation-2/ First, to install nginx do this : sudo port install nginx then use this configuration - this is only for testing, with setting for my os x (for access log / pids). It also use proxy to merb # nginx using macports installation # for my local testing user kusno staff; worker_processes 1; pid /opt/local/var/run/nginx.pid; error_log ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/06/my-os-x-nginx-configuration/ I got a strange problem, and unable to play any kind of movies in my iPhone simulator. iPhone just gave a very unhelpful error messages - "The movie could not be played" if I try to play it from internet. Fortunately, if I play the movie locally, I can see ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/06/divx-decoder-problem-during-iphone-development/ Put : $DB::single=2; to enable breakpoint in the code. Don't forget to run with -d Tags: perldebug http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/05/perl-breakpoint/ Somehow I cannot render .xml content type with merb 0.9.2; maybe I messed up something in my configuration. I keep getting this error : No Template Found : ...... create.xml.* although I'm pretty sure that I have create.xml.builder in the specified directory. It seems like the builder was not registered correctly. I ... http://kusno.mudiarto.com/2008/04/merb-092-xmlbuilder-problem/