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NeXT and NeXTStep   26 Jan 07
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A very long read about my old love :-).

Burning a cd from an iso image from the commandline   23 Jan 07
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OS X can do, it too :-) Insert a blank cd, and off it goes :-).
 hdiutil burn image.iso

 $ hdiutil  burn  KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
 Preparing data for burn
 Opening session
 Opening track
 Writing track
 ..............................................................................
 Closing track
 ..............................................................................
 Closing session
 ..............................................................................
 Finishing burn
 Verifying burn...
 Verifying
 ...............................................................................
 Burn completed successfully
 ...............................................................................
 hdiutil: burn: completed

Good old trusted linux does it with cdrecord :-)

 cdrecord  speed=2 dev=0,1,0 -data sol-9-install-sparc.iso

OSX filesystems   02 Oct 06
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Great link at kernelthread.com. I am playing with webdav in rails these days .. so I had to learn about webdav :-)

Fun with Spotlight   01 Mar 06
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Thank to Sven C. Koehler for the following scripts. He uses spotlight to datamine the Enron email data :-).

# convertEnronEmail

 #!/usr/bin/perl -0p
 s/^M//gsm;
 ($date) = /^(Date: [^\n]+)/sm;
 ($from) = /^From:\s*([^\n]+)/sm;
 print "From $from @{[scalar localtime]}\n";
 s/\Z/\n/;

#enronEmailsForKeyword

 #! /bin/sh
 mdfind "kMDItemTextContent == '${1+"$@"}'" | grep /enron/

#enronGrep

 #! /bin/sh
 enronEmailsForKeyword ${1+"$@"} | xargs grep ${1+"$@"}

#enronMailBoxForKeyword

 #! /bin/sh
 enronEmailsForKeyword ${1+"$@"} | xargs -n+1 convertEnronEmail

#enronThreadForKeyword

 #! /bin/sh
 enronEmailsForKeyword ${1+"$@"} | xargs cat

WireTap   01 Feb 06
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WireTap is a utility that allows to record anything that your Mac plays. Snapz Pro is the same thing for video. WireTap costs $19 and Snapz Pro $20. Free trial versions of both can be downloaded.

Google Earth for OS X   25 Jan 06
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I admit this post is late, but better late than never. Grab Google Earth and enjoy it.

Adium: instant messaging   12 Nov 05
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Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more

After some searching and experimentation I recommend Adium on os X. On Linux I prefer gaim. Adium uses libgaim.

Screenshots on OS X   12 Nov 05
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In a nutshell:
  • the entire screen: Command-Shift-3
  • region of the screen: Command-Shift-4; Then click and drag the cursor to mark the area you want to capture.

The files are normally saved as Picture-* on the Desktop.

Further reading: MacDevCenter about more fancy capturing using timers, etc.

A good OS X blog   02 Oct 05
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Thanks to Sven C. Koehler for the link. www.macosxhints.com/index.php?topic=pick

A few months ago I did buy a mac mini. My excuse to my girl-friend was that it would make less noise than my hyper big server. The mac mini looks really nice and OS-X is cute, too. I got to admit, I do love the GUI and the poor fact that most things like WLAN, etc. seem to work out of the box. But the definite downside is that coming from Debian/Gentoo/Suse I got some expectations towards the development tools. Now I waste hours installing fink, etc. .. fighting with different philosophies, but I still enjoy the new journey.

RDoc Dashboard Widget   12 Jun 05
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This Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Dashboard Widget is designed as a quick reference tool for Ruby programmers. It is able to display RDoc generated API documentation from any web source.

widgets.precisionis.com.au/

Good article about Tiger   08 May 05
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My girlfriend told me to get a computer that makes less noise .. so I took the opportunity to buy a Mac-Mini and to have a nice computer to play with :-).

Thanks to Sven for emailing me this link .. a good overview article about Tiger. arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars

 

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