Here is part of the reason we have newer cars now:

I find that just fascinating – the newer car was so much stronger it didn’t even have to fire its airbags in a 35mph collision. The occupants of the 2010 model walked away from a crash that would have killed the driver of the 2000 model.

And of course we have the classic new v old crash test, a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu versus a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air.

Ka-freaking-pow.

I mean yeah, the steel bumper in your old ass car may be able to hit things in parking lots without getting so much as a scratch, but damned if that old car won’t royally mess you up in a crash!

All are good, I like number five the best:

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

 

This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.

 

When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.

 

Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness.

As long as I don’t care about sleep.  At all.

This server is not bound to AD, fsck turned up a clean filesystem, and I re-ran the combo update in case it was able to succeed where it had failed before.  I also repaired permissions.  In Console PasswordService was reporting “Unable to locate search base: -1″ and “Can’t contact LDAP server”

The fix was to use a Time Machine backup to restore the /var/db/openldap folder.  I had to select “keep both” and then head in via single user mode.  If you’re a novice who got screwed here:

hold down command and S on boot.

fsck -fy

mount -uw /

cd /var/db

mv openldap openldap-corrupted

mv openldap\ [press tab and it will fill in the spaces appropriately for (original)] openldap

reboot

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It is important the second to last command look something like mv openldap\ \(original\) openldap  I can’t remember the exact \ usage, that’s why you’re using tab autocomplete, but also remember the second openldap, which is what you’re renaming it to.

After rebooting all services were up and running again, including mail/calendar/contacts/etc.

“The Second Date Story”   If you’re a sucker for a sappy tale, spend a few minutes on this one.  It’s a great read.

Guy goes on a mountain bike course with his dog Lilo.

This one is a bit old but if you’ve never seen the tech, it’s pretty interesting.  The basic idea is that to reduce overheating in athletic performance the best method is to cool blood more or less directly.  Blood circulates and acts as an internal refrigerant line, taking heat away from the body in the most effective manner possible.

Japan marks 6 months since earthquake, tsunami

“In each image I’ve incorporated myself twice, once as the Iranian and once as the American. In some of my images I see conflict and in some I see peace and calm with my two selves. This exploration is a growing one and much more work will follow this blog post.”

Photos with slow shutter speed.  Love number 14!

Guy goes down an alpine snow course in the summer on a single track coaster without using brakes. Considering how slow 55mph looks on camera in a car this guy must be hauling ass at points!

The Recording of The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Special Orchestra CD

The main one that gets me is that I turned on a number of services and always enabled SSL, using a self signed certificate because in this case I’m only providing service to a couple people where it’s trivial to accept the cert permanently.  When trying to access iCal Server either via the web or iCal itself I received varying messages.

From iCal on a Snow Leopard client I got “Then account information was not found. The server has not specified a calendar home for the account at [blah blah blah].”  Via a web connection I got “Calendar service is turned off” when it was clearly turned on (and rebooted, etc.)

The fix is to use the Server application, go to Hardware, then Settings.  Click Edit next to SSL Certificate.  Even though I had never edited this setting before, by default both Mail and Web had my self-signed cert selected and iChat, iCal, and Address Book did not.  After selecting the certificate I was able to access all services normally.

I do not know why Lion Server had those boxes unselected.  In future 10.7 server setups I will be interested to see whether this was a recurring issue or a one-time failure.

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Lion Server feels unfinished.  I very much agree with “macshome” take on afp548.com.  They are trying to make a server OS iOS-simple and in many ways they’ve succeeded.  However there has to be all those settings accessible somewhere.  I hate that Server Admin Tools do not come on the server by default – what were they thinking?  Further, the lack of MySQL and relegation of so many functions to the command line borders on silly.  If I wanted command line I’d be running CentOS or debian or RHEL.  You know, sources with good package management, backports of security patches, and the knowledge Apple won’t unceremoniously overwrite your configs out of the blue.

It’s a love/hate relationship, what can I say?

Apparently the CalDAV specification outlines essentially a per-domain authentication instead of per-user. So when you add multiple calendars to Lightning all calendars from the same domain use the same login as the first time it was entered. The second (and 3rd, 4th, etc) calendars will fail to load because Lightning is providing only the user1@example.com password for all calendar.example.com calendars, including user2, user3, etc.

The solution is to step outside of Lightning and configure delegation so the user1 has access to the calendars of user2, user3, and so on. I used iCal to add each account and then added the two primary users to all 5 of the calendars available. Write access must be granted, otherwise as of Lightning 1.0b2 it will fail.

Side note, I’m not entirely sure it’s necessary but in order to lookup users to delegate to at least according to the manual, in Kerio Connect 7.2 you must use the auto setup utility (for the main account. and possibly for Address Book as well?) I could be wrong on that but I think I remember trying under the manual config and the auto-complete did not work.

After configuring delegation in iCal add the primary user first and then all of the other accounts – it will now work as it should have in the first place. Hope this helps some random internet searcher! (I’ll never know since spammers essentially made me turn off all user registration.)

CalDAV for iCal 4.0.4:
username user@server.example.com
server https://server.example.com/caldav/

CalDAV for Lightning 1.0b2:
username user@server.example.com
server https://server.example.com/calendars/server.example.com/user/Calendar

CardDAV for Address Book
username user(server.example.com)
Yes the server is in parentheses.

server address https://server.example.com:443
Check the port in your admin page.

Configuring CardDAV within the iPhone will not work. You must use the iPhone Configuration Utility. If you’re savvy enough to have configured your own services so far this utility is a breeze to use. Fire it up, go to Configuration Profiles and fill out the General and CardDAV sections. In case you’re pulling from two different servers or with two (or more) different usernames, it’s easy to add multiple sets of settings. After you’re done, connect your phone and click the install button.

I am kind of stunned at how well this is working compared to all other Calendar and Contact syncing apps I’ve used. I used to have to wait for Google Calendar to finish writing (over the network) on my phone or I’d lose data, and every form of contact syncing other than the paid mobileme service has lost contact data including phone numbers, custom labels, etc. Syncing via iTunes with Google Contacts periodically duplicates some contacts. Syncing contacts using exchange is a nightmare, it dumps all custom labels and all but ~3 of the phone numbers per contact.

This solution not only maintains my contact entries perfectly but also syncs over the air. When inputting calendar data on my phone – which I do constantly – I don’t have to wait for network operations to finish, I just put in the data and sleep it. On top of all this I synced the contact data to my phone and after verifying it’s accuracy deleted the old information, expecting to have to reconfigure favorites. I didn’t. The transition is seamless. I can’t guarantee that for everyone, so make your backups first!

At one point I was pretty into least-adjustments-possible photography, but after going through the raw vs jpeg debate one more time I realized adjusting photos is part of the craft. Nothing you see is the “true” photo anyway, it’s all just a bunch of 1s and 0s. Either the camera interprets the data and makes permanent decisions in the form of a jpeg, or you make reversible decisions later on.