A problem in CoreAudio, Tiger’s new system-level sound manager, can cause iChat and other applications to stop producing sounds. I noticed it at first when iChat no longer alerted me to incoming messages with a lilting yoom. The solution seems to be to reset a background process called coreaudiod when it loses track of what sounds go where.
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I just finished fixing the blog and forums of one Doctor Pantzo, unleashing no doubt a fury of obscenities upon an unsuspecting galaxy. Here’s how.
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Certain routers from Netgear and Linksys can apparently be triggered to drop their connections by sending a DCC SEND in an IRC channel. I just witnessed a demonstration, and sure enough, it works. And it’s fun.
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It seems the latest version of a Perl component required by Spamassassin refuses to install properly on OS X systems without force. Brutal, ruthless force.
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