Snow Leopard Archives - Lost Entropy

Removing stuck Finder sidebar items in OS X Lion and Snow Leopard

July 21, 2011August 20, 2011Aaron B. Russell119 Comments

Having trouble removing some pesky icons that have gotten stuck in the Finder’s sidebar? If you’re on Lion or Snow Leopard, the solution is easy: Click on the folder and drag it away from the sidebar Before you let go of the mouse button, hold down the Command (⌘) key Now that you’re holding down […]

Compiling FreeImage in 64-bit on Snow Leopard

October 3, 2009Aaron B. Russell13 Comments

I recently tried to use the image_science gem for Ruby, but it didn’t work after installation because it was looking for FreeImage.h. Thinking it’d be an easy fix, I headed over to http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/ to go grab a copy of a binary file to install, but there wasn’t one. Undeterred, I went to grab the source […]

Fixing CPAN on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)

September 9, 2009September 9, 2009Aaron B. Russell2 Comments

I ran into some problems with Perl’s CPAN installer on Snow Leopard, notably, it didn’t work once Bundle::CPAN was installed. Every time I tried to install a package I’d end up with an error like this: Catching error: ‘Can\’t call method “value” on an undefined value at /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64. ‘ at /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 281 […]