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8 weeks ago
Pascal:  It should not have a problem with parentheses, any valid CSV should work. Is the file Ending ".csv"? Can you send me the output of the following Terminal command?
qlmanage -d1 -t file.csv
8 weeks ago
Ted Fischer:  This is a fantastic plugin! Unfortunately, it doesn't work with csv data generated from FileMaker Pro. I wonder if it's because FMP encloses the data in parentheses. Is there any way to fix that?
Thanks, Ted
FMPA 8.5 Mac OS 10.5.7
13 weeks ago
Pascal:  Nice tip, thanks! Looks like rsnapshot.org was also inspired by Mike Rubel's post, but done a little more professional than my version. :)
13 weeks ago
zero:  You might be interested in rsnapshot(http://rsnapshot.org). It can do snapshot backups using rsync. Timemachine might be the best comparison to its features... It's available through macports.
13 weeks ago
Bogdan:  With git, repository history rewriting is possible, but I have never tried that (only using git for less than a year).
Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience. In some environments (like whole server backup) using git/svn for backup is not really a good idea.
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Official: iPhone comes to Switzerland through Swisscom

Wednesday, May 14th 2008 - 09:44, 1 update Thursday, May 29th 2008 - 11:17
A year later than everyone expected it's now official - Swisscom will launch the iPhone in Switzerland later this year.

This fits very well to the current rumors of a new iPhone being unveiled at the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference), to be held from June 9th to June 13th in San Francisco, California.
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A Copyright Cop for every Zune

Thursday, May 8th 2008 - 10:33, 1 update Thursday, May 8th 2008 - 10:45
Oh well, that's almost hilarious. You might remember that last summer, NBC pulled its TV shows from the iTunes store after Apple denied them the rights of more flexible prices, bundling content and building harsher DRM into the iPods. Basically, NBC wanted Apple to become more evil and controlling its iTunes users further. It wanted iTunes to bundle popular shows with less popular shows so those would sell more. There's no other point behind bundling, is it?

Apple denied this (hey, there's still good in them!) and consecutively NBC pulled the shows from the iTunes store.

Since yesterday, those NBC shows are available from the Zune store (the Zune is Microsofts iPod counterpart). And guess what - with the upcoming software update to the Zune, there will be a Copyright Cop in every Zune. Mr. Perrette, NBCs president of digital distribution, said that they create “filtering technology that allows for playback of legitimately purchased content versus non-legitimately purchased content.” Great, now that is great! Thank you, Microsoft, thank you, NBC. For the sake of having those shows available and making money out of them, you're ready to fuck your customers once again. Great!
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iPhone SDK install fails

Wednesday, May 7th 2008 - 10:57, 1 update Thursday, May 29th 2008 - 11:14
I am really wondering: Today I installed the 5th beta (login required) of the iPhone SDK, so this was the fifth time I installed a beta of this SDK. And for the fifth time, I received the following error:

"The following install step failed: run preupgrade script for CHUD. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance."
iphone_sdk_install_error.png

I have no problem running the SDK, everything seems to run fine, but I wonder why googling for this error returns zero results. Not even a suggestion to search for something similiar, just zero results.

Does nobody else have this problem? Or am I violating some non-disclosure-agreement by posting this?

Edit: I filed a bug report, in case anyone wants to take a look at it, Bug ID is 5916392

Update: As of iPhone SDK beta 6 this issue seems to have been fixed, at least for me. Good.
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