NIWeek Session, Guinea Pigs Needed

If you have an application that didn't turn out as well as you had
hoped, please consider turning it into fodder for our NIWeek session --
The Good, Bad, and Ugly.
The idea is that Christina Rogers or myself will attempt to resolve your
issues and present them during the session. Of course your app will be
kept anonymous, no fingers pointed or snickering. We will hopefully be
able to show how the app could have been written more clearly, more
efficiently, or with a better UI. It will be a very interactive session
allowing audience members to comment as well, and hopefully everyone in
attendance will learn something.
So if your app seems like good a good guinea pig, please consider
submitting it to [email protected], otherwise I'll ke
ep asking.
Greg McKaskle

Alice when you use HyperlinkShader, are you shading just your CSS files or the iWeb file too. I would not use this application on your iWeb file as the "file" they're referring to here is the index.xml file within your domain file. Eeek. I don't want any third-party messing with that.
I reviewed the source code they posted at their web site and nowhere did I find any reference to manipulation of the TemplatesInfo.plist file. That's the file that would have to be altered to remove registration of your third-party templates. Well, that's the file that tells iWeb to include the template in the list. The actual files have to be installed to the template directory as well.
If it isn't too much trouble, recreate the situation on your machine and send me your PLIST file once the templates have been booted out of the list. Also, check this path and let me know if the actual template files are missing:
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/Shared/
All of my templates are installed to this folder, but other developers may not be using the 1.1 installation location so theirs may be in the old location:
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/About Me/
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/Blog/
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/Movie/
...and so on...
If the templates are still in the folder(s) that's one thing. If they've been unregistered in the TemplatesInfo.plist, that's another. There's no reason that HyperlinkShader should be going anywhere near either of these things. They're totally unrelated.
Suz

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Alice when you use HyperlinkShader, are you shading just your CSS files or the iWeb file too. I would not use this application on your iWeb file as the "file" they're referring to here is the index.xml file within your domain file. Eeek. I don't want any third-party messing with that.
I reviewed the source code they posted at their web site and nowhere did I find any reference to manipulation of the TemplatesInfo.plist file. That's the file that would have to be altered to remove registration of your third-party templates. Well, that's the file that tells iWeb to include the template in the list. The actual files have to be installed to the template directory as well.
If it isn't too much trouble, recreate the situation on your machine and send me your PLIST file once the templates have been booted out of the list. Also, check this path and let me know if the actual template files are missing:
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/Shared/
All of my templates are installed to this folder, but other developers may not be using the 1.1 installation location so theirs may be in the old location:
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/About Me/
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/Blog/
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/Movie/
...and so on...
If the templates are still in the folder(s) that's one thing. If they've been unregistered in the TemplatesInfo.plist, that's another. There's no reason that HyperlinkShader should be going anywhere near either of these things. They're totally unrelated.
Suz

Guinea Pig VIs for NIWeek Session

We have been asked to repeat the NIWeek session -- The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly.
Basically it is the review and attempted improvement of LV diagram code
by a member of the LV development team. The presentation is typically a
slide or two of overview for an application, then jumping into LV to
look at the before and after code. The audience members get into the
act as well, and hopefully everyone learns something in the process.
To do this requires VIs that someone is willing to offer up for review
-- we call them our guinea pigs. We will remove the hints about
ownership and will keep everything anonymous.
If you have an application that you wish had turned out better, maybe
its performance was less than you'd hoped, maybe t
he UI is a bit homely,
perhaps there were features you wanted to add that seemed impossible or
really hard to do in LV. You can send the VIs directly to me using the
address Greg.McKaskle at ni.com along with a descriptive email of what
the app did, what it didn't do, what was hard, etc.
Thanks in advance.
Greg McKaskle

Greg,
Most of the applications I've written have turned out less then I
anticipated (they're still ok, imho)... Is there a maximum size of the
application? (Would 600 vi be too much?)
Is it a good idea to do an improvement session in the newsgroup? NIWeek is
just too far away for me.
Regards,
Wiebe.
"Greg McKaskle" wrote in message
news:Qg0hc.3324$[email protected]..
> We have been asked to repeat the NIWeek session -- The Good, the Bad,
> and the Ugly.
>
> Basically it is the review and attempted improvement of LV diagram code
> by a member of the LV development team. The presentation is typically a
> slide or two of overview for an application, then jumping into LV to
> look at the before and after code. The audience membe
rs get into the
> act as well, and hopefully everyone learns something in the process.
>
> To do this requires VIs that someone is willing to offer up for review
> -- we call them our guinea pigs. We will remove the hints about
> ownership and will keep everything anonymous.
>
> If you have an application that you wish had turned out better, maybe
> its performance was less than you'd hoped, maybe the UI is a bit homely,
> perhaps there were features you wanted to add that seemed impossible or
> really hard to do in LV. You can send the VIs directly to me using the
> address Greg.McKaskle at ni.com along with a descriptive email of what
> the app did, what it didn't do, what was hard, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Greg McKaskle
>

My tabs will not restore after starting Firefox -- even with the option to restore my tabs and windows is checked in the "options" window. I'm losing tabs from previous sessions that I need to keep open every time I need to restart. Thanks for any advice!

Is there something else I need to tweak to get rid of this annoyance instead of simply clicking the check box? I'm losing tabs from previous sessions that I need to keep open every time I need to restart. Thanks for any advice!

Make sure that you do not use Clear Recent History to clear the <i>Browsing History</i> when you close Firefox.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Clear+Recent+History
It is possible that there is a problem with the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
Delete the sessionstore.js [2] file and possible sessionstore-##.js [3] files with a number and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
* Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Deleting sessionstore.js will cause App Tabs and Tab Groups and open and closed (undo) tabs to get lost, so you will have to create them again (make a note or bookmark them).
See also:
* [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
* [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
* [3] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_profile_files_created

My MacAir has to go in for hardware repair, and I was told that if diagnostics couldn't trigger the error, it would be returned to me to guinea pig the specifics with a log. Why can't the crash reports generated by the computer itself be used?

My MacAir has to go in for hardware repair, and I was told that if diagnostics couldn't trigger the error, it would be returned to me to guinea-pig the specifics with a log. Why can't the automatic crash reports generated by the computer itself be used? I would think they would be the most accurate and specific record of incidents, and could easily be identified with the computer serial number. What am I missing in this scenario?

What you're missing is that diagnostics software doesn't cover everything in any laptop made by anyone.
Intermittent problems, and genuine hardware induced faults typically, or course, are hard to pinpoint.
jet fighter planes contain 1000s of sensors and multimillion dollar live diagnostics and still can't "see" more than 60% of hardware potential faults.
Lucky you, the Air however contains extremely few parts, there isnt much to diagnose on one.
The Air contains 90% fewer parts than a typical laptop from a mere 7 years ago.

What is going on with the new update? It's a nightmare, poor wifi, facetime disconnects, maps are horrendous..are we guinea pigs and not product users anymore?

What is going on with the new update? It's a nightmare, poor wifi, facetime disconnects, maps are horrendous..are we guinea pigs and not product users anymore?

lll wrote: I think that this iOS was release a little bit to soon..
Yes, but they had to get the iPhone 5 into the channel, and iOS 6.notReadyYet was all they had.

I opened Firefox accidentally so pressed cancel but it opened it anyway but didn't restore my last session (which I needed) and can't find how to restore it - help!!!

I opened Firefox accidentally so pressed cancel thinking it wouldn't open Firefox if I did that but it opened it up anyway but didn't restore my last session (which I needed) and now I can't find how to restore it - help!!!
== This happened ==
Just once or twice
== I opened Firefox accidentally and clicked cancel thinking it wouldn't open Firefox if I did that.

You will find that bookmarking a page (clicking the star next to the address, or going into ''Bookmarks > Bookmark this page'' is precisely what you need to remember pages. It is a very widespread function in web browsers, and it is very ''very'' helpful in many situations, including remembering the location of pages you want to see later, providing easy access to pages you use frequently and other stuff too.
If you want to know about session restore, there's an helpful support article [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Session+Restore here] which I believe also has information on version 3.0. However, I do urge you, once again, to update, because older versions (including 3.0) are no longer maintained and have known security vulnerabilities. Besides, you will not loose any functionality at all (unless you are using add-ons that are no longer usable by newer versions, in which case you need to contact the add-ons' authors for support and ask them to update their software), it's free, and very easy to do.
If you need any further help at all, whatever it is, tips, troubleshooting, walkthroughs, feel free to ask here.

Win2008r2 RDS farm with "Remote Session Environment" set, Need on screen keyboard as well.

I have an RDS farm with select users running an app for their session, I use the following GPO:
http://i.imgur.com/DaKpW76.jpg
This works great, however, I also want an on screen keyboard to load with it as well... This setting disables most login scripts I have tried.

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Sorry to disappoint you, but as per my research there is no any default path to set for all users to display on-screen keyboard. You need to start manually or need to develop some script to start on logon. For developing any script or program, I suggest you
to contact our MSDN forum.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

How many sessions would I need for BBP?

Hi friends,
I am going to work on preparing a BBP document for Benefits implementation. Could you please guide me on how many sessions of workshops would I be needing for different components of Benefits module? I need to prepare presentations for each session. So, it would be great if you could also help me in dividing the module components into different sessions.
I have to perform these activities for PA and OM modules as well.
Your guidance would be a great help for me.
Thanks in Advance,
Sanjay.
P.S. - Appropriate points will be awarded.

Hi,
Preparation of blue print comes after you gather all the requirements, discuss the gaps with the clients. Gathering the requirements and mapping them to SAP will be done in series of workshops. You may have two workshops for each module and two workshops to discuss integration requirements. Once you are clear on the requirements and the Gaps, plan for a workshop on initial draft blue print discussion. This discussion would be for the design and content of the BBP. Later one workshop to present the complete blueprint to the client whci would include all the main stakeholders of all the modules. Later small changes can be made with individual discussions and go for sign off.
If you are particular abut the number of sessions, it depends on the complexity of business requirements. If the requirements are many and complex in nature, you need more sesions to understand the scenarios completely. Once you are clear with the AS IS and TO BE, preparation of BBP will become an easier task.
Regards,
Suhasini

How can i move ALL of my Iphoto/aperture pictures from the internal hd to a external hd at one session? just need to how to do this. (I know this is a long process; just looking for a faster method).

looking for a way other than post and click.

I'm not at all sure what you mean by "post and click", but if you wish to move your entire iPhoto Library, then follow these steps:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506
As far as I know, you can set up Aperture to access its library on an external drive; I tried to find some info for you and found this support site for it - you might want to check it out. Also, you might want to check the manual on how to move the library.
http://www.apple.com/support/aperture/

Why do "Professionals" use us guinea pigs for Beta BS?

No rollback to the 3.6.16, most add-ons don't work, you close it and run utilities and it says close it first, but you look hard and must reboot, doctors "practice” medicine until the other “Professionals” in law practice sue practicing medicine goof ups and Survey says #1 cause of death in the US Iatrogenic Death, doctors. We can’t even “test drive” this happy horse, and opt out. Now that is what is wrong, as in this phrase, “New & Improved, designed by Professionals, Labor Saving Devices.”, "designed by" is the only thing right and that is 100% wrong. The Professionals have us 120 Trillion in debt, yet they blame the unwashed masses, their victims, Firefox has joinedthem, truly “Professionals” and how we labor at Labor Saving Devices. @ my initials, art oshea.

I had to call off my evil twin brother shown below, he called Guido, the uh, legitimate businessman, (bookmaker) and wanted to whack all Professionals. I had to beg them off. He is very unhappy with Firedfox 4.0 @ my initials, art oshea

MIDI Regions don't play "the note before" (in session -- quick help needed)

In Logic 4.8.1, if a note was recorded at 4.4.4.237, it would play on the downbeat if playback was started at bar 5.
However, in Logic 7.1 the behavior is different -- notes played slightly before the beat don't play on the beat as described above. How can I replicate this behavior in Logic 7.1 ?
(And yes, the Transpose checkbox is unchecked in all MIDI tracks).
Thanks in advance for any advice!!

Perhaps the Quantize option will do what you want. It's located in the Parameters box on the left. It will put each note at the quantum you tell it. For instance, setting it to 1 note will put each note played at a beat. You can set 1/2 notes, 1/8, 1/16 and so forth; you basically put the highest resolution you think you can play
If you click outside any region you will get the MIDI Through parameters box which will set the default quantization when recording so you don't have to set manually for each track.
iMac G5, 1.8Ghz Mac OS X (10.4)

Mini vs. G4 400 difference ...need new machine

Hello,
I am looking for real world advice from mini users.
My current machine is a g4 400. Believe it or not I make my living doing imaging, design, web work. My major tools are PhotoShop, InDesign, Illustrator, GoLive, Painter, etc.
As you might imagine my current machine has trouble but being the cheap ******* that I am I have held out. I have been trying to hold out for the new Intel G5 towers but I don't think I can hold out any longer and need to get a machine in the next month or so. I will look at the Intel G5 towers later after they come out. I am not interested in being a guinea pig with the new Intel minis and how they are going to work with my software.
So here is my question-
Will I see significant performance differences between my current machine (G4 400 tower with 1.5 gigs of RAM and a couple of hard drives) and a current Mac Mini?
How does the Mini do with a 20"-24" LCD displays?
Would the Mini be a good interim machine between what I have and a G5 tower in another year or so? Or will there not be any real difference between what I have and the current minis?
Comparision to G5 iMacs?
Thanks for your help.

Of the two systems, the one I tend to pick to use is the upgraded G4. The slightly slower performance is easily offset by multiple, faster drives, two or more more displays, the extra RAM, the ease of adding in Airport, choice over internal optical drive, available slots for expansions cards, audio input, multi-boot capabilities etc. But there ARE downsides to the upgrade path too.
Most obvious is that there's only USB1.1 unless you add a USB2.0 card. That the original video card is woefully inadequate these days without adding a second or replacing it. That the faster the processor upgrade added, the less stable the system tends to be. That however fast and flexible you make it, it's still an old computer with a finite life ahead.
Of the uses that you list, the only one that causes me to doubt the mini's capabilities is Photoshop. Even then, if it's a reasonably casual use, a mini with 1Gb RAM would be perfectly OK... a bit sluggish opening files and in general because Photoshop likes a fast drive with plenty of space, but for the majority of us it would work perfectly well. If you're use is more pro than hobby, that may well not be the case however, and that's where the flexibility of an upgraded G4 might work rather better.
I like my mini and I've used it for a lot of fairly demanding tasks - it's a very capable system that really suffers far less than people generally suggest from it's slower drives etc. Most people - including many who decry it - would find it more than capable of performing the tasks they would need of it. I've certainly been impressed by mine. But the upgrade option for an older G4 does have the benefit of giving you the choice of what aspects of the system you need to focus most upon. For instance, I wanted to be able to run 2 or 3 displays, sometimes a TV, from mine, simply because I find it helpful to have an application's primary window on one screen and the toolboxes on the other, or ethereal on one, an administrator terminal server session on a second, and mail processing on the third - easier to see everything without switching systems or windows.... so I just bought a used Radeon 7500 PCI card and added it - cost $30, and more than adequate. I wanted reliable and fast drives and the ability to multi-boot for testing, so I put three 7200rpm drives in it, each one bootable. I wanted Airport for occasional use, so I put a card in it, but if I need the card for something else (a G4 FP iMac for example) I can easily pull it out again. I occasionally need to back up a directory, but since it's done at 2am, I didn't need anything fast, so I spent $20 on a discontinued Pioneer A104 DVD burner that a dealer had lying around. And while speed is always useful, I knew that a really fast processor wasn't going to be all that important, so I put in a 1GHz unit that does the job exceptionally well and wasn't a silly price. I also had RAM that was out of a couple of disused P3s, and put that in the G4 and it works just fine, maxed out at 2Gb.
Whether to buy a mini or upgrade the G4 depends on a lot of factors - but above all don't forget that your G4 has no warranty whereas a new mini will, and Applecare can also be added to give you 3 year's cover. For business use that could be important too.

Working photographer needs help with hard drives and raid O decisions

Hi new here and also new to Mac well almost new been 20 years since i had a mac. i have a Mac Pro Book and this led to ordering the MacPro since I am a working photographer i made a complete switch in platforms so i have some questions and such but I did place a order on Friday for a 2.66 4gbs of Ram , 2 500 gb hard drive and a 30 in monitor and of course the ATI 1900 XT card so yes i am waiting like many for that card.
I put initial 4gb of ram since running CS2 will at least take a max of 3gb's in the memory cache . i plan on getting 2gbs more from OWC since that seems to be the only 3rd party ram at the moment that is working correctly from reading some of the threads here. Having 6gbs is a no brainer really given the amount of Raw processing that i do along with PS work plus having e-mail and other apps open at the same time. The ram to me is the easy part although expensive . My biggest issue is what to do with the 2 hard drive slots and Raid O or not but I will start a thread on that. But i will have 6gbs total for now and the bottom line is you can never have enough ram still holds true.
Now on to my diliemma with hard drives. I did have a raid O scsi 10k rapture and and 10 k scratch on my Dell box and I am just not sure what to do here. i ordered the 2 500 gb hard drive and I may just put them on the storage side of things than get 2 WD 150gb 10 k Sata drives. Now i could Raid O them for 300 gb and get a performace boast that way or i could keep them seperate and put everything on 1 150 drive and ue the second for scratch only. What i don't know is what Mac perfers and what works better. Not worried so much about failure of drives, thats just life in the big city stuff and you just have backups. What i more worried about is performance versus a waste . seems to me that Raid O may not even be needed with these new Intel boxes with all the horsepower going on. Now the other think I notice is the WD 150gb 10 k drives are 1.5 and not 3.0 so is it really faster than the 7200 3.0 single hard drives. I read barefeats shoot out and it seems just getting the right drives in 7200 and Raid O them maybe the answer.
Okay i am not the biggest geek on the planet but I do know my stuff but this is a area that i look for more knowledge on this. So if i can get some sound advice in this area. i know there are many photographers out there like me pushing hundreds of images that could use the same advice. Now let's leave the money end out , folks sometimes think more with there wallet than what works best not that I am opposed to saving money but after spending over 7 k already on this system it becomes a moot point. LOL
www.guymancusophoto.com

Ok your question is if you should RAID O the two 150GB Raptors or not.
I think it was wise for you to get a couple of them for a boot drive with "Time Machine" coming in the next version of Mac OS X. The second drive would make a excellent bootable backup and eliminating downtime if a boot drive dies on you one morning.
In fact any boot drive cloning software that is Mac Intel ready now would do you good.
Now Barefeats has run some tests, and I can pretty much back up what they say from my own experience.
Mac OS X and apps can be helped only so much by a faster boot drive, and a single 10,000 RPM Raptor is enough, RAID O a pair is overkill.
If you install everything on the boot Raptor and keep your space hogging files (except iTunes) in new folders on another drive, even a 7,200 RPM 500GB, the two drives combined is faster as there is nearly no wait. Both drives can be accessed at the same time. Keeping the boot drive slim keeps the stylus (arm) moving as little as possible to get all the small reads/writes Mac OS X needs.
I RAID O-ed my boot drives because 74GB was the largest they had at the time, so combining them gave me speed and larger storage. I hardly use the speed, it only comes in handy if by rare chance I duplicate a 20GB folder, then I can do it in half the time of a 7,200 RPM drive.
Some of the drawbacks of a RAID O set, especially as a boot drive is that I have to auto-clone the whole set to a external drive regularly (I actually do a couple). Since the data path is separated with a RAID O, any drive failure results in total data loss.
So if you RAID O those 150GB Raptors, your going to have to clone 300GB to a external drive (or another internal) regularly, like once a week. This will take considerable time and you can't use the machine while the cloning process is going on. Sure auto-cloning software like DeJaVu can be used at night/weekends, but why bother cloning more than you have to for no big speed increase?
However if your messing with huge Photoshop files that spill over your CS2 3GB RAM limit (you need to have a "scratch" thats as fast as RAM), duplicating large files and other heavy duty drive work, then a boot RAID O will come in handy. Just remember your initial performance of 185 MB p/s will drop about 20-25% when those drives are 3/4 filled. Still 140 MB p/s is extremely good and a no worry situation.
What is worrysome is anything below 80MB p/s (I'm talking uncached 4K write speeds under X-Bench) with a new boot drive and then as time elaspes that boot drive gets filled up and loses half or more of it's inital speed. 30 MB p/s is really slow. Beachball H&LL.
http://www.barefeats.com/hard33b.html
Do Erase W/Zero in Disk Utility all new drives before laying data on them. Drives get subjected to shock which causes bad sectors on the drive. Driver software uses your data as a guinea pig to test the sectors (which you might not be able to recover the file). Zeroing does this without your data, rewriting the bad sector map so your writes are much improved, OS is more stable. etc.

I need volunteers for a dangerous mission!

I've migrated two Arch boxes, manually, from devfs to regular static /dev. I decided to write a script to automate the process.
This thing is dangerous. I have yet to test it on any of my own boxen, so I'm looking for people who
1) Want to move to static /dev from devfs (obviously)
2) Don't mind reinstalling if my script borks their machines
3) Like giving feedback
The tarball is here. Untar it, cd into the directory, and run ihatedevfs from that directory. You must be in that directory when you run it. Also, being root helps
Also, obviously, you must have built a kernel with devfs disabled that you're ready to boot into.
Here's the code just for anyone who wants to see something scary :twisted:
ihatedevfs:
#!/bin/sh
# ihatedevfs - Michael Baehr <[email protected]>
# Usage: Run this on any arch linux system (as root) and you will find the infernal devfs
# replaced with a real man's /dev, and the necessary changes to various sytem files made so
# that you can actually use your system afterwards.
# This is a hack. I am not responsible for any loss of data, computer, life, pets, or sanity
# that may result from usage of this shell script.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
# published by the Free Software Foundation.
STARTDIR=`pwd`
if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then
echo "You must be root before I let you fuck up your system irreparably."
# Damn straight
exit
fi
FSTAB=/etc/fstab
MENU_LST=/boot/grub/menu.lst
MAKEDEV=$STARTDIR/MAKEDEV-1.7
SNDDEVICES=$STARTDIR/snddevices
DEVTOOL=$STARTDIR/iloveflatdev
INITTAB=/etc/inittab
SECURETTY=/etc/securetty
GROUP=/etc/group
NEWDEV=/mnt/temporary/dev
add_groups()
echo audio::420:root >> $GROUP
echo floppy::421:root >> $GROUP
echo dialout::422:root >> $GROUP
remount()
if [ ! -e /mnt/temporary ]; then
mkdir /mnt/temporary
fi
i=`mount | grep "on / " | sed s: .*on.*::`
# Get the current root partition and remount it at /mnt/temporary
mount $i /mnt/temporary
# Copy our scripts into the chroot, just in case
# we're on a different partition (home?)
cp $MAKEDEV /mnt/temporary/dev/
cp $SNDDEVICES /mnt/temporary/dev/
cp $DEVTOOL /mnt/temporary/dev/
find_corresponding_node()
i="$(file $1 | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e 's?/?\/?')"
# Find major/minor numbers for this devfs node
for j in "$(file $NEWDEV/* | grep $i | sed -e s/:.*//)"; do
# Find the corresponding node in our new /dev directory
echo $j | awk '{print $1}' | sed s:/mnt/temporary::g
# We only want the first, so break out
break
done
update_fstab()
for i in $(grep ^/dev $FSTAB | sed s/ .*//); do
file $i | grep cannot >& /dev/null
if [ ! $? -gt 0 ]; then
# Node doesn't exist, don't replace it in fstab
continue
fi
j=`find_corresponding_node $i`
echo $j
sed -i s:$i:$j: $FSTAB
done
update_menu_lst()
for i in $(grep root= $MENU_LST | sed -e s/.*root=// -e s/ ro//); do
j=`find_corresponding_node $i`
sed -i s:$i:$j: $MENU_LST
done
update_ttys()
sed -i s:vc/:tty:g $INITTAB
sed -i s:vc/:tty:g $SECURETTY
cleanup()
cd $STARTDIR
umount /mnt/temporary
rm -r /mnt/temporary
add_groups
remount
# We need to chroot in order to create the device nodes,
# as one of the scripts, (snddevices), is stupid
chroot /mnt/temporary /dev/iloveflatdev
rm /mnt/temporary/dev/iloveflatdev
# We don't need this script cluttering up /dev, now do we? Nah.
update_fstab
update_menu_lst
update_ttys
cleanup
# Done. Pray.
iloveflatdev
#!/bin/sh
# We use two scripts to populate /dev. One of them is MAKEDEV
# which comes our way via Linux from Scratch, and the other one
# is snddevices, from alsa-driver.
# Both of them want a few groups to exist that aren't part of Arch's
# default setup, so we create them first
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV-1.7 generic
./snddevices
rm MAKEDEV-1.7
rm snddevices
mkdir pts
mkdir shm
# Boh.
:idea: 8) :? :!:
Thank you guinea pig Itachi for pointing out my first fatal, system-borking bug! ( /me updates the script, heh )
Edit2: And second bug. :twisted:
Both fixed, don't worry. Oh, and his sytem booted fine

You're too kind.
Edit: Current things I need to fix:
1) Doesn't fix /etc/conf.d/gpm and /etc/X11/XF86Config to point to the new pointer devices (/dev/psaux instead of /dev/misc/psaux)
2) Doesn't distinguish between block and character devices, which seems to be a problem with cdroms

NIWeek Session, Guinea Pigs Needed

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