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August 13, 2009

dyld: shared cached was built against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache

I just upgraded my MacBook Pro’s hard drive to one with a bigger capacity. After restoring the contents from the old drive to the new one using an image created by SuperDuper!, I keep on getting this error every time I launch the Terminal application:

dyld: shared cached was built against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache

After googling around, I found this discussion thread from Apple’s Support Forum on how to fix the error:
sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force

August 9, 2009

Wish you were here!

… but this is probably the next best thing! 🙂 Took some panorama shots of the front and back yards today. It’s been a while since I’ve done my last panoramas, so it’s almost like learning from the beginning once again. Anyway, here’s the result and pardon some of the photo misalignments.


Frontyard


Backyard

Note:This requires the Flash Player to view the panoramas. For more information about Flash Player, please visit http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/.If you cannot view the panorama, please download and install the latest version of Flash 10 player.

May 28, 2009

Base64 Encoding and Decoding

At one time, I needed to encode and decode strings in Base64 but I was on a very old Perl version that does not include the MIME::Base64 core module, nor am I able to install the said module. So, here’s the source for encoding and decoding Base64 ripped from the MIME::Base64 module:

sub EncodeBase64
{
    my $s = shift ;
    my $r = '';
    while( $s =~ /(.{1,45})/gs ){
        chop( $r .= substr(pack("u",$1),1) );
    }
    my $pad=(3-length($s)%3)%3;
    $r =~ tr|` -_|AA-Za-z0-9+/|; 
    $r=~s/.{$pad}$/"="x$pad/e if $pad; 
    $r=~s/(.{1,72})/$1n/g; 
    $r; 
} 
 
sub DecodeBase64 
{ 
    my $d = shift; 
    $d =~ tr!A-Za-z0-9+/!!cd; 
    $d =~ s/=+$//; 
    $d =~ tr!A-Za-z0-9+/! -_!; 
    my $r = ''; 
    while( $d =~ /(.{1,60})/gs ){ 
        my $len = chr(32 + length($1)*3/4); 
        $r .= unpack("u", $len . $1 ); 
    } 
    $r; 
}

February 26, 2009

Read string from stdin using fgets 

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
  char str[80];
  int i;

  printf("Enter a string: ");
  fgets(str, 10, stdin);

  /* remove newline, if present */
  i = strlen(str)-1;
  if( str[ i ] == 'n')
      str[i] = '';

  printf("This is your string: %s", str);

  return 0;
}

February 1, 2008

How to determine DST time changes

Here’s how to determine the dates when the Daylight Savings Time changes for a given year (I keep forgetting how to do this.):

zdump -v /etc/localtime|grep 2008 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 9 06:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 01:59:59 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 9 07:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 03:00:00 2008 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 2 05:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Nov 2 01:59:59 2008 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 2 06:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Nov 2 01:00:00 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

 

Obviously, change 2008 to whatever year you want.