Tech.It.To.Me->{By.Anton.Perez}

Here’s a great article by James Carr on how today’s software developer needs more than just whipping up code.  The bottom line: Be a respectful team player.

I’ve been encountering continious wifi connection issues for a while now (6 months at least), specifically, my MacBook Pro would lose connection but when I turn the Airport off then on it would be OK.  So many, many months ago I did some research and found it to be due to the AirPort Extreme Update 2008-001, which I rolled back to AirPort Extreme Update 2007-004.  It fixed the connectivity issues for a couple of months, but recently I’ve been experiencing it again.

Looking through the logs again, I found this blog post: Macbook Pro: Network connectivity just disappears.  He was getting the exact mDNSResponder errors, such as:

mDNSResponder: SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0
mDNSResponder: getifaddrs ifa_netmask for fw0(7) Flags 8863 Family 2 169.254.59.71 has different family: 0

The culprit: Apple’s Bonjour service.  To disable it, here’s the complete how-to article, but the command you need to run is:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

Hope this helps someone who’s experiencing the same issue.  Ciao!

This is nothing new, but believe it’s still worthwhile to share.  Enjoy!

This is most likely fake, but hilarious enough to show you all.

And here’s his wife:

A very well made stop motion video.  Check it out to see what I mean.