[Cross posted to and …]

Hey everyone, I just thought you’d want to know that it’s possible to compile the version of rsync that ships with 10.4.3 (found here) on OpenBSD 3.8 (x86) with the Apple patch that enables extended attributes.

To compile it, just grab the 2.6.3 version from Apple, apply the patch, do a ./configure –enable-ea-support, and compile it. I know it’s a bit behind the 2.3.6 version which ships with OpenBSD 3.8, but it does work.

With this I’m able to back up the HFS+ volumes on my Macs to an OpenBSD box and preserve resource forks. Woo!

Look:

$ ls -als
total 150696
    4 drwxr-xr-x  2 c0nsumer  c0nsumer       512 Nov  3 14:01 .
    4 drwx------  3 c0nsumer  c0nsumer       512 Nov  3 14:00 ..
   28 -rw-r--r--  1 c0nsumer  c0nsumer     12292 Sep 10 02:08 .DS_Store
    4 -r--------  1 c0nsumer  c0nsumer        82 Sep 10 02:08 ._.DS_Store
44416 -rw-r--r--  1 c0nsumer  c0nsumer  22710505 Aug 23 11:34 01_PolkaMegamix.m4a
[...]
$ 

[Cross posted from for archival purposes…]

Well, I guess I’ll be the first to complain about 10.4.3 here.

#1 — The Mail.app problem I complained about before (and submitted a bug report to Apple on) has not been fixed.

#2 — Despite adding more RAW support, the Coolpix 5400’s RAW (NEF) files remain unsupported. This is supported by dcraw so Apple has no excuse for not making it work. This too has been submitted as a bug back in April or May.

#3 — While Safari has gained the ability to render the ACID2 browser test I have been able to make it break. I visit the ACID2 test page itself, then after the rendering is complete I spin the ball on my mouse (a Mighty Mouse, in this case) and the face breaks and scrolls even though there is no scroll bar. Here is a screenshot of the problem.

#4 — The out-of-the-blue failing of my attempt to rsync lots of data to an external drive continues to fail as follows:

Documents/iChats/Erika Alpert on 2005-09-09 at 23.57.ichat
        3500 100%   18.99kB/s    0:00:00  (6610, 10.0% of 185201)
rsync: fstat failed: No such file or directory (2)
❚

Then after being sent a break:

^Crsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-20/rsync/rsync.c(231)
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 103 bytes: phase "unknown" [generator]: Broken pipe (32)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-20/rsync/io.c(909)
mercury:~ c0nsumer$ 

This hasn’t yet been reported to Apple as an official bug report yet because I don’t have a standard test case for it yet. However, it worked under 10.3.9 just fine. Unfortunately this is the bug I can’t work around, because even copying data to the external drives with Finder fails in the same manner.

So, Apple… Drop the ball much?

Okay, a moment for me to bitch about the Mozilla people:

Who the hell makes an application which supports SOCKS as a proxy type, but doesn’t provide the option for name lookups to be done via the proxy? Both Thunderbird and Firefox have been this way forever, and only a Mozilla nightly properly presents this option.

Maybe the only people who use SOCKS these days are kiddies bouncing through open proxies? Or maybe the only users of SOCKS are on weirdly configured networks which will resolve any name, but only provide connections out through a single box?

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.