Aaron Gerdes

While backing up my hard drive today (like everyone should!), I hit a snag using PsyncX. After entering my password, (once the terminal loads), I received this message:

sh: line 1: /usr/bin/psync: No such file or directory

It’s an easy fix. Open /usr/local/bin/runpsync in your favorite text editor (I highly recommend TextMate—it’s also what I use for blogging). Change line 50 from this:

open(INPUT, "/usr/bin/psync $d $f $r '$mainHD' '$secondHD'|");

to this:

open(INPUT, "/usr/local/bin/psync $d $f $r '$mainHD' '$secondHD'|");

That fixed the error for me. Probably due to my laptop running software from /usr/local/bin/ instead of /usr/bin/. Just wanted to get the fix into the Google hive-mind.

It seems like a bad idea to hide this.

A firefighter arrives in an emergency, wearing heavy fireproof gear. It may be dark out. People’s lives could be at stake. Because of that, the firefighter will keep looking.

For website users, the threshold for inconvenience is much lower. Many websites hide contact information, hours, and pricing at the bottom of pages, in small type.

Who’s coming to your site that’s in a hurry, and what are they looking for?

GigaOm muses about Google’s master plan to fight off the competition in web advertising: Google Checkout and Cost-Per-Action web ads.