My Hanukah present has so far been a success. My hope was that an eBook reader would get me to read more. Although I’ve tapered off a bit, since it arrived in December, I’ve finished three books: Mak
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Today, I decided to flush out and clean up my A* implementation in Clojure. I cleaned up the namespaces, removed some cruft, got the Java integration working (which required by-passing RT.loadResource
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The Problem

Frequently, say, one out of 10 times, when I try and log back into my Mac from the screensaver, or when I wake it from sleeping, I will get a spinning beachball and be unable to type my password. Other times I will be able to log in, but I am prompted to enter my password multiple times for various applications, and invariably one of them (usually gconsync) will get stuck after I enter my password with a spinning beach ball. I can still use most applications, but application that needs keychain authorization locks up.

I happen to be using a very handy tool called SSHKeychain, which turned out to be the culprit.

If you are using SSHKeychain, this post will walk you through fixing the unstable-wake-from-screensaver, and also solves the problem of having to type your keychain password 3-5 times when I returned to my computer.

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If you are having trouble compiling Android on Snow Leopard, first make sure you’ve installed the Leopard 10.5 Java 1.5 SDK, according to these instructions. Second, make sure you have the latest XCod
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I wanted to refresh my knowledge of functional programming, A-Star search, and I figured learning Clojure at the same time couldn’t hurt. I figured I’d do all three at once, and throw in a health dose
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If you are finding mail sometimes not appearing in your Mail inbox after upgrading to Snow Leopard, but then it appears again once you restart Mail, try shutting off the ‘Use IDLE command’ option in a
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At work, we need to start using JOGL as a dependency of our project, which we build with Maven. JOGL, the Java OpenGL interface, uses platform specific binaries, which introduces some complexity to th
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Since the latest Mac operating system Snow Leopard adds Exchange support to iCal, I thought maybe now I could reach the holy-grail: Syncing my work calendar, in Exchange, to Google Calendar. This woul
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Here’s an article about Mick Mountz, the CEO of my company, Kiva Systems.
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I used to skate with a guy who brought his gear on the back of a Goldwing… sweet!
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