It’s May! That means it’s time for a new desktop. This month I chose to use a damask pattern. For some reason lately I’ve really been into damask. Weird. The original is by steveni70 and can be found on DeviantArt. I’ve also created my own grungy damask wallpaper. Enjoy.
Desktop of the Month: May 2009
Okay it didn’t really almost die but I was a little worried when it wouldn’t start up. It all started when I was logging off of WoW and the app just hung there. I force quit and went about doing things. Next time I tried to start WoW…it wouldn’t start. So after a couple tries I restarted the iMac. That’s where things got bad. The gray screen popped up like normal and the little loading circle deal was spinning but after about 3 minutes (instead of the 10 seconds like normal) it just kept spinning. I let it sit for a good 5 minutes thinking maybe it was doing something special. That’s when the hard drive got quiet and I thought “Aww WTF?!” I held the power button to turn it off and then tried turning it on again. Nothing.
Now I’ve fixed many computers, more than I can count, so my troubleshooting skills started to kick in. Problem is, I’ve never had any problems with Macs. So I grabbed the OSX install CD from my MacBook and popped it in, booted, and ran Disk Utility. After verifying the disk and then repairing just for safe measure I restart the computer again. No go. Next I tried to reset the PRAM which cleans out the RAM. Nothing. I let it sit there for a good 10 minutes with no luck. My last shot was to boot with verbose mode on and check out what exactly is happening.
I’ve never watched what exactly happens during boot but I assumed most of what was going on was normal. After a few seconds it got to a line that kept repeating. Over and over and over. The line went something like this:
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder[16]): posix_spawnp(“/usr/sbin/mDNSResponder”, …): No such file or directory
Odd right? That’s what I thought. So after a quick Google search I learned something new.
When you set up sharing over a network in OSX it changes the permissions for Everyone to your drives and usually shares your entire hard drive. Well when you delete the share for your hard drive it resets the permissions. Which is what I did a few days before. When you reboot you start running into problems because the system can’t write to important files. Luckily the fix is pretty easy.
The solution:
Hopefully you Mac users out there who are reading this save it or write this down because you never know when you might need it. My iMac is now running again and hopefully it doesn’t try to play anymore games.
One of my most favorite games has made it’s way onto the iPhone. Wolfenstein 3D. I spent many hours playing this game as a child and have probably beat every episode more than once. If you’re not familiar with the game, you play William “B.J.” Blazkowicz (quite the last name), an Allied spy sent to infiltrate a Nazi fortress to find the plans for Operation Eisenfaust. Somehow you got caught and then managed to escape imprisonment but still have to fight your way out.
iPhone Wolfenstein 3D
If you even remotely like games and you’ve never experienced Wolfenstein 3D, I recommend you download it for your iPhone pronto!
Also theres an Easter Egg hidden in the iPhone version. If you tap the screen with four fingers the developer console will pop up allowing you to enter cheats.
Wolfenstein 3D Developer Console
You can enter in the following cheats:
Enjoy!
Sorry for ignoring you blog. I’ve been busy playing way too much WoW and I can’t really think of anything new to write. Anyways here’s my desktop for March. Nothing really fancy but I kind of like it. I need to figure out how to change those menu fonts. Enjoy.
Desktop of the Month: March
You can download the original here.
I usually try to change my desktop picture atleast once a month. Normally they don’t get posted to my blog but to other places. This month I decided to post it on here. Lately I’ve been getting into a little more customization as far as icons go. Next month I’ll work on the fonts for menu bars. I have no idea where the original came from. I wish I could remember. I’ll upload the original and give you guys a download link if you want and if you happen to find the original owner, let me know so I can give credit where it’s due. Thanks.
Desktop of the Month: February 2009
