The 10.4.9 update of Mac OS X has a "feature" where it will automatically fsck your .dmg's when you mount them, and if the fsck fails it will give the error "The disk image you are opening may be damaged and could damage your system."

After applying this weeks iTunes/Quicktime update, Butler would hang when launched. Deleting prefs and moving config files didn't help. I use Butler so extensively that losing its features is a big deal - certainly a big enough deal that I was wishing I could rollback the last update. Luckily there's an easy solution, but it took me a few minutes to figure out.

I've been using Samba for awhile to allow (among other things) my Windows boxes to print to my CUPS-based printer on Gentoo Linux. Haven't had any problems in a good long while (not since getting it set up initially, 4-5 years ago). Until this week, when portage updated my Samba.

So, I'm trying to migrate a phpBB-based forum to Drupal, so that I have a "integrated" software that provides more than just forums (blogs, pages, etc). When I hit a road block: Drupal out-of-the-box has no equivalent of phpBB's "private" forums!

Luckily, if all you want is phpBB-like private forums, there is a fairly easy solution:
1) Install the "tac_lite" (Taxonomy Access Control Lite) module, from http://drupal.org/project/tac_lite.
2) Activate the module

This post may be a little bit premature - there may be more multisite issues lurking - but given that the Drupal documentation seems to go out of its way NOT to be helpful, here's a quick tip for installing multiple Drupal-powered domains:

- don't use the 'default' site - it'll just confuse you. leave sites/default empty so that if a site falls through, it gives an error
- keep a copy of the original settings.php from your Drupal install lying around
- when you want to create a new site, put a fresh copy of the original settings.php into sites/default