April 16th, 2011 § 2 comments § permalink
If you’ve not heard about the 1Password Plugin I’ve developed for Quicksilver, then I suggest you check it out (along with Quicksilver!)
Since GitHub doesn’t allow input forms within the README files, the ‘Donate’ button is redirected to this page, from where you can donate.
I thank you all for your support, and look forward to developing some more! (Note that this isn’t a donate button for the work I’ve done on Quicksilver itself)
June 16th, 2010 § 1 comment § permalink
Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4 has been released, and I’m sure everyone is immediately rushing to download it.
I did the same, but was left staring at the message:
The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
Retrying the Installer, booting into Safe Mode and downloading the combo update all failed to work.
Delving a little deeper into the Console log files (found by opening Console.app from Applications/Utilities, clicking ‘Logs’ and the left hand side, then install.log) revealed that my install was failing due to the message
The operation couldn’t be completed. Too many open files in system
How could this be possible? The installer was the only thing running for me, and I had plenty of RAM and disk space, so what gives?
It turns out that – from this handy post – Snow Leopard only allows each process to have a maximum of 256 files open at any one time.
You can change the defaults (as shown in the link above) by typing this command into terminal:
launchctl limit maxfiles 1000000 1000000
This will set the max files per process to 1,000,000, which is more than enough.
Trying the installer again having entered this command into terminal worked perfectly!
Let me know if it fixes your problem.
May 27th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
All websites now use URL extensions that redirect for easy to remember URLs.
A recent example is Google’s http://google.com/pacman – a simple / and one word is much easier to remember than say /google_pacman.html (which is still keeping it simple!)
(I’m sure if you looked into it, the files aren’t actually stored in a /pacman folder either 
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There are URL shortening methods out there, such as http://bit.ly and http://tiny.cc, but I feel these don’t give you enough power for customisation. And what if you have your own domain that you want to use?!
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