Category Archives: wtf

I dig the hole – and then I bitch!

For close to an year now, whenever I have tried to upload a file to any site using Safari – say attaching a file to a mail via webmail – I get this error:


“POSIX error: Invalid argument” (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:22) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message."

I have invariably moaned “Darn Safari” and switched to Firefox or Camino to upload the file and come back to Safari to continue browsing, without bothering to do anything about the problem except maybe hoping it would be “fixed” in the next release. Never so much as “Googling” the problem, which is so unlike me. Until today, which is ironical considering I switched to Firefox 3.0 beta sometime back, which is awesome btw.

I thought I would file a bug-report over at Apple but just before I did that, I thought I would look up the problem. And lo behold, right up there amongst the results I saw this:

That often happens when you have disabled the Safari cache… make sure that ~/Library/Caches/Safari has Read/Write permissions for you.

Sounded like something I could have messed around with because of my “caching is no longer necessary (( Network speeds are high enough not to warrant Internet caching by individual users. ))” belief:


~/Library/Caches lfc$ ls -l Safari
lrwxr-xr-x 1 lfc lfc 9 Aug 3 2007 Safari -> /dev/null

For the uninitiated, that’s the surest way of ensuring that nothing ever gets written to/ read from “Safari”. Look up /dev/null for details.

Removing that link and restarting Safari solved the “problem” – Safari recreates the folder on Startup and everyone lives happily thereafter.

Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Worst Website.

I went to a Papa John’s outlet last month and I must say I was impressed by the quality of their pizzas. Better Ingredients and Better Pizza than any I had before alright. So when it came time for my weekly fix of order-in Pizza, I thought I would give them a call. A couple of weeks later, I still haven’t been able to do that, because their website won’t show me their contact number or the menu. Except for the welcome page, everything else shows up as this:

This could well be a Mac only issue, but in this stane-age, that doesn’t cut it I’m afraid.
And Amitabh’s just confirmed Windows user can’t access the site either – some other error though.

I am not even talking about “fancy” stuff like taking orders online, albeit, that is now the standard in many parts of the world. You have got something like 10 pages on the site and even those links don’t work properly. Question for the site developers – what the hell do you need .Net for? From the look of things (none of the pages work, so I have no idea about the content, mind) this site could be done in plain, static HTML, without any frills.

Get your act (site) together Papa John’s.

PS – I admit, it wouldn’t have been too hard to locate the number of the closest outlet at, say Just Dial, but something like this leaves a bad taste in the mouth (pardon the pun) and puts you off the whole process. I ended up calling my regular Pizza joint instead.

[tags]Pizza, Papa Johns[/tags]