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I almost lost my nerve when Logic kept on bouncing mono tracks as stereo, although output was set to mono and all effects had been disabled… sigh. Easiest solution was to use sox and remix the files to mono:

sox infile.wav outfile.l.wav remix 1

nesono has more useful sox usage examples.

Think Like (a) Git rocks!

When troubleshooting iPad/iPhone sync issues with your MacBook (or whatever) running OS X 10.6.8, this will help you:

defaults write iCalExternalSync debugLevel full
tail -f ~/Library/Logs/iCalExternalSync.log

It still took quite some time to spot the duplicate (exception-) dates in recurring events, but deleting them manually, re-synching and adding afterwards did the trick. Not sure where this duplicate dates came from, but I suspect that it has something to do with timezone support being off by default in iCal.

Interesting: OS X 10.5 packages are single flat xar archives (man xar)

Jack Tramiel is dead. “His legacy are the generations upon generations of computer scientists, engineers, and gamers who had their first exposure to high technology because of his affordable computers – ‘for the masses and not the classes.’”