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Jim Lehrer, Infotainment, and Luna Maya
Lehrer’s Rules
• Do nothing I cannot defend.
• Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
• Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
• Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am.
• Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
• Assume personal lives are a private matter, until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise.
• Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything.
• Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes, except on rare and monumental occasions.
• No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously.
• And, finally, I am not in the entertainment business.
Appropriate timing given what’s been going on with regards to journalism and the infotainment industry in this country.
First hand account of the infotainment industry by Dewi Lestari, an author and musician, as well as one by her friend and colleague, Jenny Jusuf. Both in Indonesian. A very well written letter in English by Ve Handojo to the infotainment industry.
These have been posted in response to the incident involving the model and actress, Luna Maya, which sparked a row between PWI (Indonesian Reporters Association) who felt insulted by her little blast against the infotainment workers and the AJI (Association of Independent Journalists) who supports her right to express her disdain and has distanced itself from those working in the infotainment industry.
Even more comical or perhaps pathetic is that the PWI is using the very law they fought against not too long ago to try and make an example of this woman. On the other hand, I’ve heard some people think this whole drama is concocted between the two parties. Regardless, this non-issue has been a distraction from other more important matters such as the failure of the Copenhagen summit to reach a deal to manage climate change, how efforts to combat corruption is facing opposition from certain higher ups, and why I’ll be working right through Christmas and New Year holidays.
How to open a locked Time Machine drive
The other day I had the opportunity to troubleshoot two issues on an iMac using iChat’s Screen Sharing feature. While the screen sharing itself isn’t new, it’s been around for ages via various VNC software and was made easier in Mac OS X when Leopard came out in 2007, the actual use of it makes you feel like you’re working in the future.
iMac can’t boot properly
The first problem was that the iMac wouldn’t boot into the system. It would display the Apple logo and just stays there for hours. This is unsolvable using screen sharing since the iMac wouldn’t boot so we went via text chat.
Get the original Install DVD from the box the iMac came in. If you don’t have this DVD or something similar, you’re basically screwed until you can get yourself one or you go to an Apple Service Provider to fix your problem.. Don’t lose this DVD. If you do, you need to have a Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard DVD that you can buy from any Apple Reseller.
Insert the DVD, follow along as if you were to install the OS but once you see the menu bar on top, select Utilities from the menu bar and choose Disk Utility. Select the hard drive of the Mac and choose Repair Permissions. Once it’s done, it doesn’t hurt to click on Repair Disk.
Once you do that, restart the computer.
If the hard drive is not detected by Disk Utility then your problem is more serious than that. You need to take it to an Apple Service Provider.
Locked Time Machine drive
The second problem I faced while troubleshooting that iMac was that it had a Time machine backup drive, presumably a Time Capsule, which was inaccessible.
Once the iMac restarted successfully, the backup drive appeared with a padlock image on its icon indicating that the user account is unable to access it. It turns out none of the administrator account could access that drive.
Until I found this solution on Apple’s discussion board.
1. Open Terminal
2. Enter the following lines:
sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/“TM drive name”
followed by
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/“TM drive name”
This command needs a password.
Note that you have to have a password set for an administrator account. When you enter the first command, you’ll be prompted for a password. This is the password for the administrator account. If you set up your account without a password, go to System Preferences > Accounts > and change the password. You can replace the password with a blank one after this is done if you don’t want to use one.
How do you know you use or have an administrator account? Go to the Accounts pane in System Preferences and see the label underneath your account name.
Twitter book for beginners
A good friend of mine, @Dirgayuza Setiawan recently launched his Twitter book for beginners. If you know anyone who’s just getting into Twitter, it might be a good idea to get them this book even though most of the information is available from Twitter’s own help pages.
The good thing about printed books is that you can read them when there’s no Internet connection. Mashable has a really good free online guide for Twitter but it’s not that useful offline. The PDF version is only readable on the latest version of Adobe Reader which I’m not a fan of. The book is in Indonesian which helps locals understand Twitter better if they’re not that fluent in English. They also won’t need to dig through the help pages at http://twitter.com/help. I’m sure even many seasoned veterans haven’t bothered to look through that section of the site.
It’s a good guide for beginners without getting into more complicated situations.
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