Using launchctl on Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Just a note concerning launching background services via ‘launchctl’. My understanding is that this takes the place of rc.d/ scripts in linux for example.

1. Launch MySQL deamon
   sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

2. Stop MySQL deamon (same as above, but replace ‘load’ with ‘unload’)
   sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

Chain Whipped Bike Race

Last night I played gopher for the 1st (and possibly last) annual Chain Whipped valentines day ATH bike race (spoke card shown). The race was (check) point to (check) point and scored based on number points visited, chance, and bonuses (including Sorority girl phone numbers obtained, bricks carried, number of certain disreputable shops visited, and best on the fly hiku). The sponsors included Ben’s Bikes, Mama’s Boy, and Jittery Joe’s Roaster.

Here’s to hoping that we’ll see the 2nd annual Chain Whipped bike race next year.

Shiny bicycle of the day

Probably this won’t be regularly occurring column, but here are two for today:

1. Vanilla Bicycles Portland, OR handmade bike shop. Check out the “White Cross” and the “Speedvagen”
2. Rivendell Bicycle Works

For the more casual, less cyclocross minded shiny bike enthusiast / Tolkien fan

One thing I like is that both shops seem to have a fondness for lugged steel frames.

The illogic behind google suggestions

I wrote a post in a google group recently, asking a question about why some files don’t show up somewhere. A questions that is pretty much only about computers, files, directories; things like that.

But on the sidebar, google suggests several “related” pages, or posts maybe. The strange thing is that they are all in arabic, except one which is about Iran.

So why is that?

Screenshot below: