Did you know that there is a shortcut to open certain panes in System Preferences in OS X?
If you want to open the Sound-Pane in System Preferences then try this key combination:
⌥ – any of the keycaps to modify the volume on your Mac
The same goes for the Monitors-Pane:
⌥ – keycap to increase or decrease [...]
Today is the festival Diwali, translated “a row of lamps”. Just in case you need to know.
Get the whole story on Wikipedia or from the BBC.
Just a short tip: Your Dashboard in OS X contains up to the minute information about things that are of interest to you, right? I use a script to launch iTunes and Mail in the morning while making coffee, the other thing I launch every morning is the Dashboard to get an overview of things [...]
The end of the Daylight Time is near, this year, the switch takes place on November 2nd, to be precise. Usually no biggie, but Europe switched back last weekend and I switched a couple of jobs from cron to launchd, as prescribed by Apple, during the year on servers located in Europe.
cron, the one available [...]
The Net is bubbling with the phrase Morning Banana Diet at the moment. Some think it’s a viral hoax, some are trying really hard to make it work. Here is my take from the lab (hence the name, you know):
First things first, though. This is my take on the subject, read gut-feeling and experience. I’m [...]
The admin-password does not work with the diradmin-account? First things first:
Don’t panic!
There might be a way out of this.
What happened?
The passwords for the administrative account on OS X Server, I’m talking about the one created during installation, and the diradmin-account are the same, right? Are you sure? They probably are, if you didn’t change one [...]
A couple of minutes ago a friend told me, that one of his friends could not send mails via his SMTP-server. (Quick explanation: this friend of mine hosts a server on his premises and allowed a couple of his friends to use it for sending and receiving e-mail.) I checked the logs and lo and [...]
I told you about Joost’s great Wordpress-Bundle for TextMate in the post A Wordpress-Bundle for TextMate and I stand by the title of this post. It really brings back the fun in hacking Wordpress-themes.
I found one deprecated call (in two incarnations): listcats expands to list_cats, but the beauty in using the Bundle is, I just [...]
I just found a Wordpress-Bundle for my favorite editor, TextMate. Download it from the Website of SEO-/Wordpress-wizzard extraordinaire Joost de Valk.
I’m going to test it later today.
Being kind of “Solaris-infested” at times (a.k.a. old habits die hard), I had a hard time capturing network-packets on OS X the other day. Not the capturing in itself, but remembering to use tcpdump instead of snoop. The command I was looking for was
sudo tcpdump host [ip-address]
It lists the packets as they go by, regardless [...]