requested architecture/executable not found

Apple technology

On a recent Macbook Pro (i7, Macbook Pro 8.1) post Feb 2011 I did not have much love from a kernel driver. Oddly google was not that helpful.

/var/log/system.log system log complained along the lines of:

[0x0-0x30030].WebToGo.ePlus2_1[1106]:
/System/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardActivateDriver.kext failed to load -
(libkern/kext) requested architecture/executable not found;
check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).

The fix was pretty simple: Just boot the machine into 32bit mode. Turns out the default boot mode is 64bit on later hardware. One way to find out which OS mode you run is to go to:

About this Mac
More Info …
click directly on the Software item on the left.

You will see 64-bit Kernel and Extensions: “Yes” in the second last line.

If you hold the numbers 3 and 2 during boot then you will be in 32bit mode and get probably much more love from 32 bit extension. In my case it was an Aldi Surfstick S4012 based on a Huawei one that caused some grief in 64bit.

Since not many 64 native machines are out there it explains why this topic is not easier to google right now.

median artery incidence

free of any reason

Some people say that humans genetically mutate to become better typists and cite the increased incidence rate of media artery cases. Oddly “homo facebookinensis” is still a noogle.

ecoli map germany

daily life deutschland internet

I made a map of the current ecoli outbreak in Germany.

There is actually also a german version: Ehec Karte Deutschland

gammaslamma

misc

Gamma Slamma is a great little tool to remove gamma flags in PNG files. You just drop files on it. Simple as that.
Unfortunately 4 years after its inception it is increasingly 404ing. So here a link to the DMG in case you need to download it:
GammaSlamma 1.1

I miss my Onyxes

technology

A, the good old days, when I had hair (well kinda) and computers were large, big and expensive.
These emulators from Nvidia reminded me of that time back last century.
And they also get to show how much horsepower actually is in a modern day GPU.

logos

art marketing

Honest logos. Could easily be extended. Probably since companies with much to hide pay more for their branding.

user experience

media

A great illustration of how the user experience of getting your movie going is quiet different depending on if you have paid for it – or not.

guess the country

daily life marketing

On the carton of orange juice it reads “low in saturated fat”. Orange juice, fat?? WTF. What are they thinking. How many people ever considered OJ to be fatty? Pretty clear which country you are in when you read this kind of ‘nutrition information’.

The invisble hand of working stuff.

daily life history technology

Switching machines I realized that I had to re-install webmailer. This wonderful preference plane lets you launch any web based mail program whenever your default mail application would be launched.

I have used it for years. Thousands of times. And it always worked.

And I failed to appreciate that. Going through our lives our attention is where we need to act or avoid. The broken and annoying stuff is what we notice.

All the well working things that surround us go naturally under appreciated. And, since people have piled up allot of technology and culture in the last couple of generations there is actually a huge amount of that.

If a thousand items worked and one does not, that one will be all we think about.

nice idea

daily life marketing

brand feedback

via Eric Alba.