How to add numbers using AWK

awk 'BEGIN{total=0}

{total += $1}

END{print total}'

 

And they fixed it in 10.6.5

The crash that happened in my last blog post has been fixed with 10.6.5. Hurray!

Also, I think this release is a good one, "Top Sites" in Safari became snappier, I now use the small setting so it's like an image wall.

SystemPreference Screensaver/Wallpaper keeps crashing! *ANGRY*

I was meddling with some new wallpapers today when I noticed that after I've opened the ScreenSaver/Wallpaper preference pane, it crashes after approximately 10 secs. Searching the net seems to indicate that this might be a plist issue, mostly pointing to com.apple.desktop.plist.

But, that wasn't the issue. I spent about an hour trying to figure out which plist was causing the crash, since if I move all com.apple.* plists out of the usual place, the pref pane stays and runs smoothly. At last, it came down to com.apple.iApp.plist, which is a file indicating the various exported databases for iLife suite and iTunes.

I assume that the pref pane program crashed when trying to read AlbumData.xml. Unfortunately, I don't have any proper solution right now other than wait for Apple to fix the pref pane. There is a work-aroun though. Remove com.apple.iApp.plist before you modify any Screensaver/Wallpaper, the plist will be automatically re-created next time you run iPhoto. This might affect iWeb from retrieving media library from iPhoto and iTunes though.