Friday, April 26, 2002

Life's Strange Coincidences This seems like something out of the movie Magnolia. I just came across a story over at cnn.com stating that TLC's Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes dies in wreck. While I'm not exactly a big TLC or hip-hop fan this news is significant to me on a couple levels: TLC opened for Boyz 2 Men and M.C. Hammer at the first concert I ever attended. I went to said concert with my brother back in the summer of 1992 because my dad won two tickets from a local radio station. My dad won the tickets by answering a payphone at a 7-11 that he just happened to be driving by when a local radio station announced that whoever answered the phone at that location would receive two tickets to the concert. Yesterday, the day Lisa Lopes died, was exactly one year from the day my father died from cancer. 10:37:01 PM     Low level MacOS X tip of the day Apparently MacOS X only allows 256 file descriptors by default and this can be problematic for applications like Zoe that need more. One way I found to get around this problem is to login as root and type unlimit. According to this page this will boost the file descriptor limit up to 10,240 for the current session only. Update: I don't think that unlimit command worked, as I experienced the same kind of error in Zoe that I have been. Further investigation is needed obviously. 8:02:12 AM

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