Archive for January 30th, 2010

Mozilla Weave 1.0 Minimal Install on Dreamhost: Fail

Posted in account-management, dreamhost, tutorial on January 30th, 2010 by matt – 3 Comments

The 1.0 release yesterday seemed like a great time to try Weave again. Following the big bold suggestion at the top of https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Sync/1.0/Setup, I hit up http://tobyelliott.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/weave-minimal-server/ and tried to install my own instance. Alas, Dreamhost bested me. Too tired to fully explain why, but quickly:

  1. Dreamhost doesn’t allow “Alias” directives in .htaccess (either that, or you can only have Alias directives in httpd.conf/apache.conf, in a VHost block; whatever, the bottom line is you can’t use it).
  2. You somehow need to map some path to a PHP file. That is, something like “host.com/weave/a/b/c” is actually supposed to be a request to “host.com/weave/install/dir/index.php” with a bunch of extra URI stuff after it (in this example, “/a/b/c”). Don’t worry, this sentence doesn’t make sense to me either.
  3. Apache rewrite rules are confusing enough, but factor in PHP processing, and it’s more than I can figure out right now.

Damned shame, from the instructions it sounded like it would take 10 minutes, max. <sigh/> Will try again another day. Gods, I hope somebody else figures it out by then.

Removing dead tracks in iTunes automatically

Posted in itunes, tutorial on January 30th, 2010 by matt – Be the first to comment

Doug’s “Super Remove Dead Track v2.1″ works like a charm: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removedeadsuper

Installation takes about 20 seconds. Note that if your music collection is large (mine clocked in at 120 GB…), and you have a lot of dead links (I had around 10-15 GB), it could take up to an hour.