Our latest bug friend who dropped by tonight. These little buggers are responsible for the most annoying noise you will hear during the Costa rica summer.
Alyssa calls the glass “the kill jar” but to date, we have yet to kill anything. They are always released to the outside from where they came.
After 20 minutes of chatting you get the “ROBOT!!!” exclamation from everyone on vent. Or you could get the “Dude, just don’t talk”. Either way, here is a complete fix:
You need to replace the KEXT file AppleUSBAudio.kext with an older version. You do all this via “su” or logged in as root.
Make a backup of the existing driver by running the following in terminal
cp -Rp /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext ~/Documents/AppleUSBAudio.kext-BACKUP
Exit any applications that are using a USB audio device and unplug all USB audio devices. In my opinion, print this page and restart your computer and ONLY open terminal. Unplug your headset please.
Unload the existing AppleUSBAudio driver from the kernel by running the below command in terminal.
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext
If you get an error saying ” not found for unload request” your fine. If you get an error claiming it can’t be unloaded because its in use (don’t have the text in front of me) then stop and go back to step 5.
Remove the existing driver by running the following in terminal.
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext
Put the new driver in place by running the following in terminal.
sudo mv ~/Downloads/AppleUSBAudio.kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext
You can see if it was quarantined by running this:
xattr -l AppleUSBAudio.kext
Load the new driver by running the following in terminal.
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext
Note: At this point if you get an error like this:
check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8)
Do the following:
chown root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext chown root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext/* chown root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext/*/* chown root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext/*/*/* chown root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext/*/*/*/*
Confirm the new driver is loaded by running the following in terminal.
kextstat | grep AppleUSBAudio
The output should look like the folliowing (the 2.5.8b13 is the important bit, some of the other numbers might be slightly different):
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Here in Costa Rica the internet is terrible. At home it is OK but in the office it is always falling over. We are on a huge waiting list for Wi Max and until then we just have to suck it up. In Canada and the United States, we never really have issues with our internet connection unless we live in remote areas of the country.
At least in the more remote parts of North America we have options. We should all be glad about his because since I moved here, I am somewhat limited. There are many good companies who specialize in dial-up internet and DSL service. More often than not, cheap dial up is not the answer, but you can always try it out and see if it works. Usually you can get trials but more often than not, you can risk less than $10 to try it.
I wish we had these options in Costa Rica.
The people at Copper, actively choose not to employ deceptive practices which many ISP’s utilize on a daily basis. All of your information is safe and secure with them. They won’t collect your personal information and make it available to other companies. They really are quite different from the big guys in the internet service market.
If you ever need help, you can always call for assistance and hear a friendly voice at the other end of the telephone. Copper don’t outsource their services and jobs overseas so if you’re looking for an internet provider who are in your time zone and speak your language then check them out.
Just like in 2008, Google April Fool‘s pranks are for sure going to be all over their web services.
Check Youtube, Search and all their other products today. I’ll leave you with two more, one is a video April Fool prank on Youtube and the other is in their Search. First the video:
And now the Search – check the upper right corner of search statistics:
I made a big mistake by getting my mates to claim I was G-d’s son. Some people took me too seriously and now I have a shedload of believers that need convincing I was just pulling a stunt.
Can you set me up with a website so I can inform the masses that I am just a dead guy with holes in my hands and being Jewish is the way to go.
I will pay you with very old shekels my Mum gave me when she did the DNA test proving Joseph was my Dad, he nearly killed her over that prank.
I thought this was funny. Then again, my sense of humor is weird because I like to use a paint roller frame to paint walls.