OS X Leopard 10.5.3 Upgrade Breaks iCal

Just a quick note on how upgrading to yesterday’s 10.5.3 release broke iCal, what didn’t fix it, and what did.

I upgraded yesterday, and everything seemed fine. It wasn’t until this morning that I tried to access my iCal, and I received an error dialog letting me know that iCal could not move the Calendar Cache due to a permissions problem.

I manually checked permissions on ~/Library/Calendars/Calendar\ Cache and the file was owned and writable by me, as well as the containing directory.

smeg:~ merlin$ cd ~/Library/Calendars
smeg:Calendars merlin$ ls -al Calendar\ Cache*
-rwxr–r–+ 1 merlin staff 532480 May 28 17:39 Calendar Cache
-rwxr–r–+ 1 merlin staff 311296 Feb 11 15:33 Calendar Cache~1

Running Permissions Repair inside of DIsk Utility did not help.

Moving the old Calendar Cache files out of the way did fix the problem, and the new iCal was able to upgrade and rebuld its databases:

smeg:~ merlin$ cd ~/Library/Calendars
smeg:Calendars merlin$ mv Calendar\ Cache Calendar\ Cache.bak
smeg:Calendars merlin$ mv Calendar\ Cache~1 Calendar\ Cache~1.bak

If you found this page because you have hit this problem, then I hope this helps.

-Chris

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Bush and Bible Prophesy, I Finally Understand

Bush has said he is doing God’s work. Rational people see this is a sign of dangerous insanity. People have delusions, and not all of them are bad; but today I realized just how Bush thinks he is doing God’s Work

Bush is playing the role of the Anti-Christ, and he takes great delight in standing in front of crowds with his bluster and his swagger, literally talking people into following him to their own doom.

First Bush brought us War. He’s done a good job there. With school yard taunts he has convinced a nation they are ‘chicken’ if they don’t rush head first over a cliff with him. Maybe we should have a country-wide screening of the second two episodes of the Back to the Future franchise; the country needs to remember that the opinion of the school bully doesn’t mean squat.

Bush now sets the stage for Famine: With just a little political maneuvering, under the guise of creating more jobs, the Bush Empire wants to bring one of the deadliest livestock diseases right into the heartland of America. You don’t need to study history to understand how incredibly dangerous, and stupid, this is. All you need to do is Google “Britain hoof and mouth outbreak” and read one or two of the articles. The British government had to slaughterer 6 million sheep, cows and pigs to contain the outbreak, a mere seven years ago. For over fifty years the US government has studied this disease on an island off the coast of NY, and there is no good reason to bring this deadly disease onto the mainland. Unless you want to keep your horsemen close.

I don’t believe in the Anti-Christ. I don’t believe that if you were to, shudder, examine Bush from head to toe that you would find a birthmark that looks like 666. I don’t believe that God, or Satan, talks to Bush and assures him he is doing the right thing.

I do believe in delusions. I believe that a person with dangerous delusions, and immense political power, is far more dangerous than if there were a real Anti-Christ whose only weapon is a forked tongue offering temptation.

Dangerous Animal Virus on US Mainland?
By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
Friday, April 11, 2008
04-11 06:37 PDT WASHINGTON, AP —

The Bush administration is likely to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising concerns about a catastrophic outbreak.

Skeptical Democrats in Congress are demanding to see internal documents they believe highlight the risks and consequences of the decision. An epidemic of the disease, foot and mouth, which only affects animals, could devastate the livestock industry.

One such government report, produced last year and already turned over to lawmakers by the Homeland Security Department, combined commercial satellite images and federal farm data to show the proximity to livestock herds of locations that have been considered for the new lab. “Would an accidental laboratory release at these locations have the potential to affect nearby livestock?” asked the nine-page document. It did not directly answer the question.

A simulated outbreak of the disease — part of an earlier U.S. government exercise called “Crimson Sky” — ended with fictional riots in the streets after the simulations National Guardsmen were ordered to kill tens of millions of farm animals, so many that troops ran out of bullets. In the exercise, the government said it would have been forced to dig a ditch in Kansas 25 miles long to bury carcasses. In the simulation, protests broke out in some cities amid food shortages.

[Snip. Read more at the above link]

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Not Guilty, now off to the slammer for 15 years!

Judges can still punish acquitted defendants – Los Angeles Times
By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined Monday to reconsider a legal rule that might surprise most Americans: Judges can punish defendants for certain crimes even after a jury has acquitted them of those charges.

In recent years, the justices have described the right to jury trial as one of the bedrock principles of American law. At the same time, they have been unwilling to say that a jurys not-guilty verdict on some charges means the defendant cannot be punished. Instead, the court has said judges may take into account “acquitted conduct” when they decide on a prison term.

The case of Mark Hurn of Madison, Wis., provides a stark example of the rule.

Hurn was given an additional 15 years in prison for possessing crack cocaine, even though a jury acquitted him of the charge. He was convicted of having powder cocaine in his house, a charge that would warrant between two and three years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.

But he was sentenced to nearly 18 years in prison, as though he had been convicted on both counts.

[Read the whole story at the link above.]

“Innocent until proven guilty”, meet “Sentenced either way”. Is this that “Frontier Justice” that Bush promised us?

-Chris

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