Anyway, here’s how to disable it in Mac OS 10.4/10.5 (from Apple’s support page):

In Terminal, type the following command:

Disable: sudo pmset -a sms 0
Enable: sudo pmset -a sms 1

Pam: My manager asked if you’re a Sea Shepherd!
Pam: He saw your shirt!
Pam: He loves Whale Wars.

Me: Awesome
Me: Ask for a raise

Pam: Perhaps if I give him a crew shirt… :)

Me: The last publicly available crew shirt sold for $1,000
Me: Does he have that in cash? ;)

First time in at least 7 years…

I’ve disabled all my add-ons, and it hasn’t resolved the problem. The next step for debugging will be to trash ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox and start a completely new profile.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090616 Firefox/3.5

Clear to Cease Operations

Dear Eric Cheng,

At 11:00 p.m. PST today, Clear will cease operations. Clear’s parent company, Verified Identity Pass, Inc. has been unable to negotiate an agreement with its senior creditor to continue operations.

After today, Clear lanes will be unavailable.

Sincerely,
Clear Customer Support

Verified Identity Pass
600 Third Avenue
10th Floor
New York, NY 10016

The error text reads:

System extension cannot be used

The system extension “/System/Library/Extensions/MonitorControl_drv.kext” was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product’s vendor for an update.

It doesn’t seem to be a common problem because a Google search for “MonitorControl_drv.kext” currently returns exactly one result (so rare!).

Color Eyes Pro seems to be working just fine on the MacBook Pro, and installing the software package on my Mac Pro proceeded smoothly without any errors.

I recently upgraded to an iPhone 3GS, and now need to sell my original 16GB iPhone (2G). On eBay, a mint-condition jailbroken 16GB iPhone 2G sells for $300-$350, while iPhones that look used are going between $200-$300. Assuming I managed to get $300 for mine (unlikely, even though the screen is perfect — it looks used), I would pay approximately $21 in fees, plus at least $10 insured shipping, netting me around $269.

For my phone, FlipSwap offers $235 in the form of an Amazon gift certificate, or around $223 in cash. I’ve decided to sell via FlipSwap / Amazon gift certificate because the $34 difference isn’t enough to make me go through the effort of listing on eBay and risking a sale price lower than $263, which the break-even price at eBay after fees. I’d also risk an international sale, which comes with its own set of issues, like risk, and time to actually go to a post office. Also, I’d have to either wait for a 3.0 jailbreak tool or downgrade the firmware from 3.0 to 2.2.1 for jailbreaking before selling it on eBay. More effort.

FlipSwap seems like the best deal, that is, unless someone reading this wants to buy my iPhone for more than $235 + shipping. :)

I used Mac OS’s calibration tool in the Displays preference pane, and it produces a different-looking profile with the same brown contamination in the grays.

This is a very difficult thing to show on the web. The only way I can think of to show visuals of what I’m talking about is to set manual white balance on a digital camera and photograph the screen — perhaps a task for another night. My conclusion is that neither the Monaco Optix XR Pro nor Mac OS X’s built-in display calibration is effective at profiling the unibody MacBook Pro’s glossy screen.

Also, I posted an update to my post on calibrating a Dell 3008WFP (at the end of the post).

UPDATE: I just did another calibration using the Optix XR Pro with the Color Eyes Pro software demo instead of the bundled Monaco software, and it looks promising so far!