Farid Zakaria

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Fix for latest Extension Hypemachine bug


This post comes from my original WordPress blog, written between 2009 and 2018. It is kept here verbatim as an archive — the formatting did not always survive the move, and I no longer agree with all of it.

Wah Happened?!

During the last week I got a lot of e-mails from people telling me how the extension was no longer working for them. The complaint was the name of the song downloaded seemed to have been 'garbled' or no longer working. I'm sorry it took me a while (~1 week) to dig into it, however I now have published the fix into a new branch on Github.

#Run this from 'Terminal' on your mac for instance
git clone -b chrome-bug-373182 git@github.com:fzakaria/HypeMachine-Extension.git

For those curious, the regression (bug) looks to be caused by Chrome/Chromium and is currently being tracked here, where they don't seem to be respecting the download attribute for anchor tags.

Enjoy the music,
Farid

17 archived comments

Oliver 2014-06-11

What about windows?

Farid Zakaria 2014-06-12

download https://github.com/fzakaria/HypeMachine-Extension/archive/chrome-bug-373182.zip and follow the directions in the README (i.e. extract the ZIP and install the extension)

Anon 2014-06-15

Thanks Farid!

Oliver 2014-06-19

Damn, THANK YOU Farid! Love it!

Manuel 2014-06-22

Thank you very much sir!

Robert Wickersham 2014-06-23

I tried your terminal code but it gives me this error:

“Cloning into ‘HypeMachine-Extension’… Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.”

Then I tried going to your GitHub and downloading the updated branch with the fix and replacing my old extension with it, but the same problem persists.

Can you help me out with this? Am I doing something wrong? Seems like the fix is working for these other people.

Simon 2014-06-27

Robert, You need to setup your GitHub account with an ssh key, see https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

I am still having the same issue (random file names) on OSX , chrome Version 35.0.1916.153, after loading the updated extension (still says version 1.44?). Yet to test on my windows machine..

Simon 2014-06-29

Update on last comment.. issue seems to be intermittent(???)

Mariam 2014-07-04

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Rupak 2014-07-04

du bbInclPowheg_9091.dst262144 bbInclPowheg_9091.dststat bbInclPowheg_9091.dst File: `bbInclPowheg_9091.dst’ Size: 0 Blocks: 524288 IO Block: 4096 regular empty fileDevice: 801h/2049d Inode: 16868 Links: 1Access: (0644/-rw-r r ) Uid: ( 1009/ UNKNOWN) Gid: ( 1000/ UNKNOWN)Access: 2012-03-29 13:29:51.878887000 +0200Modify: 2011-09-26 11:00:46.299480000 +0200Change: 2012-09-12 14:50:14.665280518 +0200Seems that stat gives nr of blckos on device, 512 in my caseOne can get correct size of the file (from du) multiplying nr of blckos from stat by 512 524288*0.512k/1.024 = 262144kxfs_db for this file give nr of 4096 blckos i.e. 65536In your script I replaced nr of blckos from stat to nr of blckos from xfs_db so the dd comand using 4096 block size gave correct file size on output.

Milan 2014-07-05

Hi, I am trying to firuge out how to get this to work on the background element.I would like the body{background-image: url(blablah.jpg);} to have a background image that behaves the same way this does in a div.Can anyone help me with this? I tried: $( body’).anystretch( img01.jpg ); but it does not work right. The image has a padding applied and if there is not enough content to fill the screen the image disappears.

Ellie 2014-07-05

Thanks for the info, I couldn’t find the buottn configuration myself. I don’t need the Archive buottn and was quite annoyed when it suddendly became visible after the update and made the Delete buottn smaller. Now it’s gone and I am happy again. It’s nice that K-9 Mail is so flexible.

Farid Zakaria 2014-07-09

I tried it today at work.. some of the downloads worked and others didnt. Its a bit frustrating because its a Chrome issue and I’m not super well versed. I will try to investigate some more!

Kelsey 2014-07-21

im having prmbleos running avida, i have downloaded 2.12.1 for my mac. i have also set up github to my computer. when i try to run avida i geterror: unable to open file avida.cfg’.error: configuration file avida.cfg’ not foundlogout[Process completed]im not sure were im going wrong, if someone could help or send me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance.

Wilson Ting 2014-07-24

Thank for your update! I appreciate your response to my concern! Much appreciated. Cheers.

Brando 2014-08-12

I think it’s not working again? I just tried it using the link above and it’s still showing me a random string of characters instead of the song titles. Thanks, love the extension

Farid Zakaria 2014-08-13

I’ve fixed it! See my new post