Monthly Archive for January, 2008

VOGUE Exquisite

Function:

The product is manufactures by the excellent craft, design essence. Jan is ingenious, filters presses the net design to be possible to cause you regardless of. Flushes adjusts the coffee or makes tea all may with ease filter. Falls the sediment, the use is extremely convenient. Disman table. Designs easy to clean, the modeling is unique, artistic. Practical.

Use Method:

Turns on the cover for a jar, in the pot puts in the right amount tea. The mesh pot assumes 45 slanting to put, approximately 95 hot water slowly will break in, cover the pot, will settle 3-5 minute. Will soak the good tea to pour into the cup then.

M-Audio Black Box and Leopard

Update Jan. 27: Two days after I wrote this, M-Audio released a 10.5.1 driver. Ha!

Possibly M-Audio is discontinuing or replacing their Black Box “guitar performance | recording system” as it is no longer findable on their website. No Mac 10.5 Leopard drivers are available, and my guess is they will never be. Just for fun, I installed the 10.4.10 Tiger drivers, rebooted, and found upon (every) reboot BootstrapDaemonPerUser crashed. I ran the driver uninstall app (included with the driver) only to find BootstrapDaemonPerUser was still crashing upon reboot, and the driver was not actually uninstalled.

Manually uninstalling the driver was easy enough, looking at the uninstall.ss shell script inside the uninstallation app:

rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/M-AudioBlackBoxBoot.kext
rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/M-AudioBlackBoxJag.kext
rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/com.m-audio.startupitem.blackbox
rm -f /etc/mach_init_per_user.d/com.m-audio.blackbox.helper.plist
rm -rf "/Library/Audio/MIDI Devices/M-Audio
rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/M-AudioBlackBox.prefPane
rm -rf /Library/Receipts/M-Audio\ Black\ Box.pkg
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.m-audio.prefpane.blackbox.plist

Upon rebooting, all traces of the driver were gone. Guess it was not the best idea to install it.

The Black Box seems to work fine with no driver installed, though Logic 8 only sees two inputs (there should be four).