Critter’s Code

I know this is old news, but this one bit me last night.

I needed to loop over a structure and return the keys and values in a case-sensitive xml format. Creating my structure like this:

was returning the keys in all caps. (USERNAME, FIRSTNAME)

I had forgotten that if you need to preserve the case of the keys you need to create them like this:

That will result in (userName, firstName). You can reference them with dot notation and the case will be preserved, so long as they are created using the [""] format.

As you were.

I had Carbonite installed as an online backup solution for a little bit, but ended up uninstalling the trial (via the preference panel) due to a lack of extra funding to throw their way.

I noticed this morning that the cpu kept jumping on my mac, so I popped open the Console and saw this:

I searched around online, but couldn’t really find anything that helped. I searched around to see where things were launched from, and found that /Library/LaunchAgents/ had these two plist files in it:

I do know that you need to unload a plist that has been launched, so I typed the following into Terminal

You will have to authenticate after each command. After doing that I was able to delete the files and all was well.

I do want to throw in that I much prefer Carbonite over Mozy. Mozy after a bit of time always seemed to just stop working for me. I’d have to re-install and then it would be good for a bit, etc, repeat. The only reason I uninstalled Carbonite was the inability to dish out the extra cash (side effect of the unemployment movement)  meh.