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Perl WWW::Mechanize test fails – odd address for HTML::Daemon->new(LocalAddr =>)

Mark — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:23:22 +0000

This has me scratching my head. UPDATE: I can explain it! It’s Apple braindeadedness. It would appear that something changed with Lion, maybe even as recent as 10.7.2 Host lookups go to DNS first, then to /etc/hosts. And it would …

OS X Lion Mail app corrupts attachments

Mark — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:13:41 +0000

I’ve had the Mail app on OS X Lion crash a few times on me lately. No idea why. But at the same time I seem to have been experiencing a lot of corrupt attachments. One PDF came through part …

Errors exporting Keynote presentations to PowerPoint

Mark — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:00:11 +0000

I generally write any presentations I do in Keynote. I’m not a fan of Microsoft Office at the best of times – it’s awful in Windows and not a lot better on the Mac (my chosen desktop platform). Mostly I’ll …

Problems installing DBD::mysql on OS X Snow Leopard

Mark — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:57:48 +0000

After a colleague showed me the excellent MySQL Workbench the other day I thought I’d install the packaged MySQL on my Macbook, to do a bit of Catalyst developing. When it comes to extra Perl modules, I always install everything …

Stop X11 running an xterm on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Mark — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:52:37 +0000

It’s always annoyed me how this is the default behaviour in OS X. It used to be a case of editing an xinitrc, but now it’s a simple ‘defaults’ edit… defaults write org.x.X11 app_to_run ”

Capture YouTube videos for offline viewing on a Mac

Mark — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:32:25 +0000

Joshua Johnson has put a neat post on MacAppStorm about little known shortcuts in OS X, and this one is a particularly great little nugget. Only today I was watching a mate’s video on YouTube, but I wanted to watch …