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This error is a chown issue. I recently saw that my home brew directory was owned by root somehow and without thinking ran $ sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/ which really probably messed more than just mysql owner privileges. However this is just about fixing mysql so it would boot up again. First I ran disk utility, which is usually a good idea, however it doesn’t fix /usr/local because that’s not default Mac OS X.

sudo chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/data/

This will set the owner back to the correct mysql user and it will again boot up. This is of course if you installed a custom mysql package into /usr/local/

Recently I upgraded to Parallels version 4 then noticed that the icons were ugly! Other people were talking about it too. So I decided to re-create my own that were easy on the eyes. First I downloaded IconBuilder plugin for photoshop or fireworks. Then I grabbed some images to work with in Photoshop (new iMac and Windows 7 desktop) then tied them together all nice and peerdy. With icons on a Mac OS X you need 4 sizes (128×128 48×48 32×32 and 16×16). Then I flattened the layers into one layer.

• Selected that layer and -> Filter -> IconFactory -> IconFactory.
• Set them up and saved them as “Parallels.icns”.
• Then went to Applications -> Parallels and right click or ctrl click -> Show Package Contents -> Contents -> Resources and re-named “Parallels.icns” to “~Parallels.icns”.
• Then I copied my file over to that folder, ran a killall Finder and booya!
• Way better Parallels Desktop and File icons.

I have zipped up a psd and the icns files so you can make your own or use mine. If you use mine, I take no responsibility for your actions or the file if you happen to mess your S*!T up. Always backup your stuff, and re-name the original file!

Download: parallels-desktop-icons.zip

I recently just got the 24inch iMac and had to undergo the massive task of porting over everything from my MacBookPro. This included installing all the needed custom installs of Ruby, Rails, ImageMagick, RMagick, MySQL and configuring everything to work properly. I had the most trouble with ImageMagick, although it wasn’t that hard It still took me a bit to do. Now I hate mac ports, well I don’t hate but I don’t like how it install stuff everywhere. I like being able to control what’s being installed in a tidy fashion. So this is what I did to get ImageMagick working:

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New builds of textmate come with the ability to change the font size! See @Allan’s comment below for details.

Download the intel based test build by option clicking the check now button in TextMate’s system preferences software update tab.

$ defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakProjectDrawerFontSize -int 15

If you are like me and hate how small the font’s are in Textmates drawer, don’t get mad get modificlisious. You must have Xcode installed. Don’t worry about messing around with Interface builder files for apps because when you save the nibs they save a backup. Here’s how to modify the font size in Textmates drawer:

• Browse to the application and right click or ctrl click => show package content
• Go Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ => open Project.nib
• In the project window double click on the FileHierarchy icon
• Now the FileHierarchy window should open so click on the drawer in the FileHierarchy window
• Press Apple T or go Format => show fonts from the menu set
• Now just select the font you want to use and the size
• You should see the fonts change
• Save and relaunch Textmate!