After a pretty dry spring, this pretty much summarizes the past month. Clicky big.
Dune – Rainbow to the Stars [4.5mb, 4:55, awesome happy hardcore, craptastic 128kbps joint stereo]
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Great Perseids Meteor Shower tonight
Got some spare time tonight? From about 9 or 10pm in your local timezone, peaking just before dawn, the Great Perseid meteor shower will be going on. I witnessed this a few years back and it was spectacular — maybe 50-100 meteors an hour.
From NASA:As the night unfolds, Perseus climbs higher and the meteor rate will increase many-fold. “By 2 am on Monday morning, August 13th, dozens of Perseids may be flitting across the sky every hour.” The crescendo comes before dawn when rates could exceed a meteor a minute.
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How to get iTunes to stop asking for your password on boot
I had this problem, and I have to say thanks to Apple for making their discussion forum available. Found the answer in about 30 seconds with one search for “password” within the iTunes category. The question:
Since updating iTunes to version 7.2, I am prompted to enter my password everytime I start iTunes. Previously, iTunes would load and go directly to the Store page or my library. I don’t recall changing any settings. Is this a new security feature in 7.2? If not, how can I avoid having to enter my password everytime I open iTunes?
And the response:
Just so you know, I was having this issue as well but on my Macintosh. It happened after I upgraded to iTunes 7.2 and/or Purchasing music at the same time.
Give credit to echobucket in another thread on this topic for solving the login request when starting iTunes 7.2. I’ve cut and pasted the procedure below:
Navigate to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Downloads in your user home folder. If your downloads are already complete there should be nothing in that folder. If you see something like “list.plist” move it out of that folder onto the desktop or into the trash.Thanks to Santijim for the solution — which worked like a charm — and to Ed Hayden for asking the question 😀