break out from PRISM

Diificult to walk away from NSA surveillance, but possible:

http://prism-break.org/

As usual the answer is in the domain of open source.

Problem with MacOS 10.7.5

Bumped into a problem described here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3238744?start=15&tstart=0

Error messages:


5/25/13 12:18:43.043 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.xpchelper.F8010000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[53840]) Exited with code: 1

5/25/13 12:18:43.063 PM xpchelper: getpwuid_r() failed for UID: 504, ret: 0, errno: 0

those messages filled up system.log. I could not open terminal or activitymonitor to try to kill opendirectoryd. After power off everything is back to normal. The root cause is unknown.

java.facebookupdate on MacOS

java.facebookupdate is running in the background and requests update from facebook. This is an object that comes when you use facebook video chat. if you want to remove this java object look at /Users/[my username]/Library/LaunchAgents/com.facebook.videochat.[my username].plist  and
/Users/[my username]/Library/Application Support/Facebook/

Delete everything there.

Macbook trackpad scroll direction

I have difficulties to use what Apple calls "natural scroll direction".  I change it always - Apple - System preferences - Trackpad - Scroll direction: natural - unclick.

iBooks issue in offline mode

There is an issue with iBooks in 6.1.3 on iPad2. When iPad is in offline mode (disconnected from iTunes server) and you try to click "Store", it will complain that iTunes store is not available, but will not let you to go back to iBooks. The only way to read you books again is to reboot iPad.