Yesterday, Sugarsync prompted me to install an update. After installation, it complained parts of it was installed separately and refused to run. I uninstalled it via /Applications/SugarSync\ Manager.app/Contents/Resources/SugarSyncUninstaller.command

Then I did a fresh install. Still no luck, it kept crashing. I fired up the Console to see if I can find any errors. I found some errors related to xfsmond, particularly:

10/11/11 5:43:46.788 PM [0x0-0x57057].com.SugarSync.Manager: launchctl: Error unloading: com.sharpcast.xfsmond

I fixed the permissions of the Launch Daemon for it via

sudo chmod 644 /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sharpcast.xfsmond.plist

And loaded it via

launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sharpcast.xfsmond.plist

Voila, now SugarSync Manager runs fine, no more crashes. Hope this post helps someone…

Recently, ICANN finalized and published a new document titled “Registrants Rights and Responsibilities.” The 2009 RAA included a provision that would require both registrars and their resellers to link to this new document from their website as a way both educate and protect domain registrants by ensuring they understand their rights and responsibilities when it comes to their domain names.

So here is the link to the document for those who are interested.

Whenever you upgrade a plugin in WordPress or WordPress itself while running under IIS 7, you get an error. This usually happens as the process was unable to delete the folder for the plugin or such. This issue is related to WinCache plugin for PHP and latest version fixes the issue.

Install the latest one at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/files/development/

Happy blogging

It was about time to change from old blog system, which is no longer supported. So, welcome to new software and design. I am keeping the old links up, but eventually will remove them. If for some reason you need to view the old site, the link is:

http://sems.org/index.asp

So excuse the mess while I clean up. Feel free to post about any errors and I’ll fix them asap

I have changed the database engine on sems.org and cleaned up the database as well. This should improve the performance quite a bit. If you experience any issues, please drop a note

Here is a great sale, Handango is offering 25% off for all platforms, just use code SPRING3 today to get

I have Luxio 32 Gb USB Flash Drive from SuperTalent and it had two partitions, one protected by AES encryption, one non-encrypted. It was working fine till yesterday. A week ago, I accidentally washed it. But knowing the usb flash, I let it dry and it was fine. Yesterday, it decided to quit working. It was recognized by OS, installed as a removable drive, with 0 byte size. It wasn’t even mounting under OS X.

I found the Dr. UFD from people who had 0 byte (or media not inserted errors, which I also did – it acted like a card reader without media) problems. Tried it, even though my drive is from a different manufacturer and voila. Now I lost the secure partition, which is not an issue, as I wanted to remove it anyways .

Dr. UFD is a low level format utility from PQI. It is available for dl from their site under FAQs, http://www.pqi.com.tw/faq_1.asp?ID=1171 for example.

If you have any issues with a USB Flash drive, this might save you

They are 50% off this week (till November 30th). Invisibleshields are great for protecting your devices and now you can get them in nice designs. Too bad they don’t have one for Blackberry 9700 yet

As the Black Friday approaches, more and more deals are leaking out. I found BlackFriday.info site has very detailed and organized info.

Also take a look at this Excel sheet, which allows you to search, compare different prices at different

After installing the latest developer build of Snow Leopard on my Mac Mini, the Forklift app from BinaryNights started to crash on launch.

I found a short article on
http://osgeeks.blogspot.com/2009/08/fixing-forklift-17-for-running-on-snow.html which summarizes a fix:

sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClient.framework

sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework/Versions/A/AppleShareClientCore /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework/Versions/A/AppleShareClient

sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/QuickLookUI.framework

sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/QuickLook /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/QuickLookUI

sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/QuickLook /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/QuickLookUI

This worked well for me. Kudos to its author