Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

molecule's posterous

You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart...

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

"we are free children of God with minds who can imagine anything"

I watched American: The Bill Hicks Story this weekend, which covers the life and career of this eminent philosopher comedian. His insights continue to be profound, relevant, and poignant to contemporary times, especially:

Folks: It's time to evolve ideas. You know, evolution didn't end with us growing thumbs. You do know that, right? Didn't end there. We're at the point, now, where we're going to have to evolve ideas. The reason the world is so fucked up is we're undergoing evolution. And the reason our institutions, our traditional religions, are all crumbling, is because... they're no longer relevant. They're no longer relevant. So it's time for us to create a new philosophy and perhaps even a new religion, you see. And that's OK 'cause that's our right, 'cause we are free children of God with minds who can imagine anything, and that's kind of our role.

 - 1993.

via http://www.billionquotes.com/index.php/Bill_Hicks#Rant_in_E-Minor

raising a snow leopard

 user-interface:

disable spotlight
snow-leopard Dock:
  • Finer Things In Mac
  • defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock

development:

install XCode, System Tools, X11 from Snow-Leopard DVD
install macports via dmg

install via ports
  • sudo port install  wget emacs subversion mysql5-server mysql5 python24 libxml2 libxslt py-libxml2 py-geoip postgresql83 postgresql83-server

python libs, manual install:

  • cd /opt/local/bin/
  • sudo ln -s mysql_config5 mysql_config
  • python2.4 setup.py build && sudo python2.4 setup.py install
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    python libs, easy_install-2.4:

    • datetime
    • python-dateutil
    • ftputil
    • hashlib
    • lxml
    • cython
    • pygresql
    • sqlalchemy

    nokogiri gem installation on snow leopard

    installing nokogiri gem on snow leopard failed on libxml2 and libxslt checks until I did the following:

    cleared out the old libs:

    • $ sudo port uninstall -f libxml2
    • $ sudo port uninstall -f libxslt

    installed the new libs:

    • $ sudo port install libxml2
    • $ sudo port install libxslt

    I was then able to install nokogiri

    • $ sudo gem install nokogiri
    • Successfully installed nokogiri-1.3.3

    Leopard Corruption Recovery

    Ingredients:

    • External USB/FireWire Drive(s)
    • Super Duper!
      • creates easy cloned, bootable partitions
      • partitions selected via 'Option' key during booting
      • free version provides sufficient functionality
      • backup media can be cloned back to original drive, or accessed when mounted
    • Time Machine
      • performs easy incremental, scheduled backups
      • backup media can be restored back to original drive, or accessed when mounted
    • Time Machine Editor
      • provides better control over Time Machine scheduling

    Optional:

    • Leopard Install Discs
      • provides another emergency boot media
      • can provide OS X installation to original, new internal disc(s), partitions(s)

     

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