After my recent Mac OS X 10.7 Lion upgrade I was greeted with a
dialog box after reboot telling me that
com.apple.dock.extra.xpc needs to take control of another process
for debugging to continue. Type the name and password of a user
in the "Developer Tools" group to allow this.
No problem, I thought, and entered my credentials. Alas, to no
avail. My name and password were rejected, which had me a little
panicked at first, because I thought the OS upgrade might somehow
have botched my account, potentially locking me out of my Mac
later.
Hitting cancel would only get rid of the message for a few
seconds, then it would reappear, again and again.
Turns out the solution was quite easy: Go the Mac App Store and
download Xcode 4.1. Once the installer has finished downloading, …
As we move toward a data economy, can we take the digital content model and apply it to data acquisition and sales? That's a suggestion that Gil Elbaz (@gilelbaz), CEO and co-founder of the data platform Factual made in passing at his recent talk at Web 2.0 Expo.
Elbaz spoke about some of the hurdles that startups face with big data — not just the question of storage, but the question of access. But as he addressed the emerging data economy, Elbaz said we will likely see novel access methods and new marketplaces for data. Startups will be able to build value-added services on top of big data, rather than having to worry about gathering and storing the data …
[Read more]Let me begin by saying “I am so not a gadget guy.” I don’t have an iPhone. Heck, I didn’t have a cellphone at all until April when I joined Percona as a consultant. I don’t ooh and aah over other people’s gadgets most of the time. I don’t have, you know, that kind of envy. I’m sure you see where this is going: I got a gadget and I think it’s really cool.
Anyway, my wife and I have a bunch of computers (desktops and laptops) and we had been feeling the pain for a long time: the files were only on one computer, and we wanted them available. I built a file server and then realized that it was going to be really expensive in terms of power alone, so I went back to USB drives for backups, and kept thinking about it.
After a long time I …
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