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So, I’m in the Apple Store last weekend, and I’m being rung up at the back counter (Genius Bar, I guess). Here’s the scene (each number represents an employee):

1                        2
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3                         Me

3 walks up to 1 and asks him something. He doesn’t know so he looks it up, and can’t find it, and asks 2 the same question. 2 takes a guess (”It runs on Mac and PC, I think”)…..

Me: What was the question?
2: What does the Universal symbol mean?
Me, to 2: It runs on Intel and PPCs.
2, aloud: He knows it…. say it again.
Me to 3,1, and customer: It means it runs on both Intel Macs and PowerPC Macs.
3: You should work here.

Little did they know….

Best iTunes username EVAR

The “one-liner” widget for Konfabulator hasn’t been working for me recently (I am currently using Konfabulator 2.0.1 and Tiger). I knew that it writes a file to the /tmp directory but I don’t see it there now, so I figured that’d be part of the problem. It seems it was. Here’s what I did; use this info at your own risk!

Steps for fix:
1. Close the one-liner widget.
2. Show the contents of the widget (control-click it in the Finder)
3. Edit one-liner.kon. Line 115 reads as follows:

var user_folder=system.temporaryFolder+"/one-liner"+user_id;

This uses system variables to generate the path where OL will write its file. I simply commented it out and added this line, essentially hard-coding the path.

user_folder="/tmp/501/one-liner";

4. Save the file, close it.
5. Relaunch the widget.
6. Cheer, pump your fist in the air.

Update:
This may break after a restart or logout because /tmp/501 is removed at those times. Simply readd it (along with the one-liner subdirectory). I’ll try putting it in my home dir.