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Below is a small piece of thoroughly untested AppleScript (well, it worked for me at least once) that will process files you might have downloaded from a torrent and attempt to parse out show, season and episode information from the file name. ...more...

It’s been over two months, so I rolled a fresh Carbon Emacs installer. From CVS as of about an hours ago. Although, to be honest, it doesn’t look like there’s been a whole lot of activity in Emacs CVS lately. Enjoy.

I just tried to access one of my local dev sites (that is, running on my powerbook), and received the dreaded “mysql can’t connect to socket” error:

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock'

I was sure MySQL was running (I could access it via the command line mysql tool, and MySQL Administrator). And it used to work… But sure enough, there is no directory /var/mysql, and no mysql.sock file in it. :-/

After a bit of digging around, I noticed that the php.ini file (/etc/php.ini.default) had been updated on Feb 8th, about the time OS X 10.4.5 was released. Hmm. ...more...