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You can find directions on how to fix the Woot Watchter yourself or you can download it here at RobotFloos.

Instructions:

1. Depending on your operating system, go to the following directory:
   • OS-X: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles//Extensions/{a92aadf8-193f-4a62-8740-5cce81775afc}/chrome/
   • Windows 7/Vista – C:\Users\[Your UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[Your Profile Name]\extensions\{a92aadf8-193f-4a62-8740-5cce81775afc}\chrome\
   • Windows XP – C:\Documents and Settings\[Your Account Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[Your Profile Name]\extensions\{a92aadf8-193f-4a62-8740-5cce81775afc}\chrome\
2. Rename the file “wootwatcher.jar” to “wootwatcher.old” in case you ever want to revert back to it.
3. Now, copy the wootwatcher.jar file from the .ZIP file to the directory
4. Relaunch FireFox and enjoy your w00ting!

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All of my Mac Mozy Pro installations have started to freak out. I contacted Mozy support, and it turns out this is a known bug with Moxy Pro 1.6.0. The newest update to 1.6.2 fixes the following problem:

Symptoms:

1.) Mozy Fails to Launch at Start - Under System Preferences -> Account -> Login Items, for all of the users the Mozy Status item is set to launch, but the item is marked as “unknown” rather than “application”. Also Mozy Status does not appear in the Activity Monitor after startup.

2.) Mozy Becomes Hyperactive – About once a minute a “Mozy has finished backing up” window appears. However, no files have been backed up.

The Cure:

1. Force quit Mozy – you may need to do this via the Activity Monitor (Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor)
2. Remove Mozy from your startup items (System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items)
3. Uninstall Mozy (drag and drop Mozy from the Applications folder to the trash can and recycle it)
4. Restart computer
5. Install Mozy 1.6.2
6. Restart computer (because you didn’t remove the Mozy preferences file, you will not need to re-enter your account information)

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When you build iMovie projects, the program copies all of the imported assets in to a directory specifically for that project. However, if you import a new file with the same name as an existing file, the import will not be updated in the project.

Example:

1. You have a video and add a narrative called “My Narration.mp3″ that is 1:00 long saved to your desktop.
2. Later, you edit the MP3 on the desktop and add 15 seconds to it bringing the length to 1:15.
3. If you delete the narration from the timeline in iMovie and import the new version of the MP3 from your desktop, you’ll end up with the old copy that is 1:00 long, not the 1:15 version.

In other words, the original file you imported isn’t replaced, which makes sense to me as I can imagine scenarios where a user might accidentally change a file. The problem is iMovie never tells you that the assets haven’t been updated.

Here is what should happen:

1. iMovie should compare the two files and determine if they’re different
2. If the files are the same, it should prompt you that no updates have been made to assets
3. If the files are different, it should prompt you to overwrite the original asset or to add the second asset in to the project (and it should automatically rename the asset for you)

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Today I’m headed from Oklahoma City back to San Francisco. Before I arrived at the airport, I downloaded the User Agent Switcher for FireFox and added a profile for the iPhone. A lot of airports allow free wifi access for iPhones, and the User Agent will allow you to pretend that your computer is a iPhone. And it works perfectly.

I tried connecting to the airport’s wifi without the User Agent addon enabled, and I was promptly asked to pay for access. I turned on User Agent, selected the iPhone profile, and viola! Free wifi. After 15 minutes I’m asked to watch a 15 second add, and then access continues.

Knowledge is glorious.

Here are the iPhone Agent settings you need to use once you’ve downloaded the User Agent addon:

• Description: iPhone
• User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
• App Name: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)
• App Version: Version/3.0
• Platform: Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3

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Basically, we’d started converting a group of OS-X users to active directory, and problems with directory permissions were arising. However, once on AD the users lost permissions to access their original local folders (note: it has been a while, but it was along those lines).

I had been asked to find the solution (which is very simple) because I have a mad love affair with command line interfaces. These directions are fairly specific because not all of techs helping implement the solution had working knowledge of command line interfaces or OS-X. For advanced users this solution most likely seems obvious.

How to Change the Owner of a Folder via CLI (command line interface)

1. Open a terminal
2. Change to the /users directory
3. Enter the command: ls -l

This will display a list of the current directory, and all of the owners and permissions of the sub-folders/files within. The output will be similar to the following:

total 0
drwxr-xr-x 15 OnADNow OnADNow 510 Nov 9 11:59 OnActive.Directory
drwxr-xrwx 12 PreAD PreAD 408 Nov 9 10:47 PreAD

The third column tells us who owns the folder and the fourth column lists the directory names. In the output above, the folder \users\PredAD is owned by the user named PreAD. The problem is that the user, whose account on AD is named OnADNow, doesn’t have permissions to access his old folder called PreAD (ie – he can’t access his pre-migration folder).

Enter the command: sudo chown OnADNow /users/PreAD
This will change the owner of the folder /users/PredAD to OnADNow. Note: Issue the command with sudo and use the absolute path. The user name and path are both case sensitive.

Reissue the command: ls -l
The output will look similar to this:

total 0
drwxr-xr-x 15 OnADNow OnADNow 510 Nov 9 11:59 OnActive.Directory
drwxr-xrwx 12 OnADNow PreAD 408 Nov 9 10:47 PreAD

The owner of the folder users/PreAD/ has changed to the user named OnADNow. This changes the owner of the group to support, but it doesn’t change the ownership of the contents of the folder. If you change in to the directory /users/PreAD and issue the command ls -l, you will notice the contents of /users/PreAD still belong to the user named “PreAD”.

So, to change the ownership of the folder’s contents the -R delimiter must be used: sudo chown -R support /users/PreAD/
The -R delimiter will recurse through all of the sub-directories and change the ownership of everything in /users/test.

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