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A catchy bit of binary

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

10001110101. That translates, variously, to “vp”, 1141, 02165, and 0×475, depending on what base you’re feeling like you belong to. I’d love to spend the rest of the night looking for deeper meaning in these various permutations, but a guy’s gotta sleep sometime, right?

So, anyway, I’ve been listening to a lot of Clutch lately. I’ve had multiple copies of their self-titled disc since the early ‘90s, and then I re-discovered them when I found Blast Tyrant on the iTMS earlier in the year, and Robot Hive/Exodus a couple of weeks ago. 10001110101 is one of the tracks, and, thanks to a bit of Googling, landed on their lyrics page. Holy Geekdom, Batman! They’ve linked spuriously to Wikipedia, and even have their own page. Sweet!

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Report-a-bug Tuesday

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Bah, I’m running into enough bugs that I’m not gonna wait ‘til Fridays.

Today’s bug: 4265089: Spotlight image importer stores incorrect dates

I’ve noticed that Spotlight isn’t importing the actual EXIF date in my images; it’s just using the file date. Not good enough. There are some other reports of the importer doing The Wrong Thing™ with regard to EXIF data, as well. I’m thinking about modifying the Creative Commons mdimporter importer (‘cause its guts are written in Python) to do the EXIF thing properly. Maybe in my copious free time…

If the behavior of the Image importer bugs you, too, please report this bug!

20-Sep-2005 11:15 AM Brian Lalor:
Summary:
The Spotlight image importer for JPEG files (/System/Library/Spotlight/Image.mdimporter) fails to properly index the EXIF date and time for images.

Description:
1. Copy a JPEG file (like the one attached) that has valid EXIF data to the computer.
2. Force Spotlight to reindex the file, by running “mdimport -r /System/Library/Spotlight/Image.mdimporter”
3. Wait for mdimportserver to settle down
4. using a tool like jhead, examine the EXIF data in the image; the “Date/Time” tag should show “2005:09:07 12:04:34”
5. look at the output of “mdls /path/to/image”. At least one timestamp should be the same as the Date/Time tag from jhead.

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