1. get the decent Purity app, unplug the network (so that iCal won’t sync before the culprit has been removed), and clean the iCal cache
2. have a closer look at ~/Library/Calendars/, where all the calendars are stored. Inspect the info.plist files and .ics event data to find the bad calendar and move its folder to another location. Restart iCal. If it is still crashing you got the wrong calendar – put the moved calendar back and keep on searching.

No. 2 did the trick for me.
Plain text files and simple folder layouts might not look as evolved as SQL tables and mysterious binary data files – but they work just fine in this scenario and are pretty easy to debug.

Fortunately, you can set the display brightness using the hardware keys in GRUB, the bootloader that let’s you choose what OS and/or Kernel you want to start.

Settings are lost on reboot, and you still can’t change the brightness at runtime, but it’s better than nothing.

Update:
Actually, there is a way to enable the brightness keys. And you don’t even have to edit your X.org conf manually. Just head over to ubuntu-tweak.com and install samsung-brightness

Search is a way to harvest demand, not to create it.

(Drew Houston, co-founder & CEO of Dropbox, about Google AdWords in his “Startup Lessons Learned” presentation).

via Jeff Barr.

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#!/bin/csh
set SVNREV=`svnversion -n`
 
set FILENAME=$my/path/to/include/version.h
echo '/*******************************************************************' > $FILENAME
echo '* '>> $FILENAME
echo '* This include file is automatically generated. All manual ' >> $FILENAME
echo '* changes will be lost.'  >> $FILENAME
echo '* ' >> $FILENAME
echo '*******************************************************************/' >> $FILENAME
echo '' >> $FILENAME
echo '/* latest Subversion revision */'  >> $FILENAME
echo '#define SVNREV ' $SVNREV >> $FILENAME
echo '' >> $FILENAME

If you develop on Windows, you might adopt this script:

@echo off
 
REM store latest revision number as SVNREV
for /f "delims=:" %%a in ('svnversion') do @set SVNREV=%%a
 
set FILENAME=%my%\path\to\include\version.h
echo /*******************************************************************  > %FILENAME%
echo * >> %FILENAME%
echo * This include file is automatically generated. All manual  >> %FILENAME%
echo * changes will be lost.  >> %FILENAME%
echo * >> %FILENAME%
echo *******************************************************************/  >> %FILENAME%
echo.  >> %FILENAME%
echo /* latest Subversion revision */  >> %FILENAME%
echo #define SVNREV  %SVNREV$ >> %FILENAME%
echo.  >> %FILENAME%

Make sure that you add version.h to svn:ignore.

dir | clip – copies the output of the dir command to the clipboard
clip < example.txt – copy the contents of the file example.txt to the clipboard

C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\ws2def.h(91) : warning C4005: 'AF_IPX' : macro redefinition
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\winsock.h(460) : see previous definition of 'AF_IPX'
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\ws2def.h(124) : warning C4005: 'AF_MAX' : macro redefinition
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\winsock.h(479) : see previous definition of 'AF_MAX'
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\ws2def.h(163) : warning C4005: 'SO_DONTLINGER' : macro redefinition
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\winsock.h(402) : see previous definition of 'SO_DONTLINGER'
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\ws2def.h(206) : error C2011: 'sockaddr' : 'struct' type redefinition
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\winsock.h(485) : see declaration of 'sockaddr'
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\ws2def.h(384) : error C2143: syntax error : missing '}' before 'constant'
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\ws2def.h(384) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'constant'
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\ws2def.h(384) : error C2059: syntax error : 'constant'
C:\sdk\windows\v6.0a\include\ws2def.h(437) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '}
(...)

After some digging in the code I noticed that windows.h had been included before winsock2.h. And that windows.h includes winsock.h. When digging deeper, I found an article in the MSDN describing what had happened here:
actually, this is a legacy problem. In Windows versions <= Windows 98, WinSock 1.1 had been used. The current win32 socket implementation, Windows Sockets 2 (WinSock 2.0), is backwards compatible to Windows Sockets 1.1. Additionally, the winsock2.h header files prevents the inclusion of the legacy winsock.h header file. But once you include winsock.h, you can not include winsock2.h later on.
Unfortunately, windows.h still includes winsock.h.
Fortunately, you can disable the legacy parts of the Windows SDK easily:

#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN

You will not be able to build Windows 95/Windows 98 applications when using this definition. But if you were targeting those OS versions, you wouldn’t be using Windows Sockets 2 anyway.

Luckily, there is abcTajpu, a Firefox extension that allows you to select foreign characters, umlauts, … quite easily.

Free, no ads – really worth a try

Unfortunately there is no sync option for Akregator and Google Reader yet.