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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since it bit me a couple of days ago: The AppleScripts to be used as Folder Actions must be stored in ~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts or /Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts. The former is the location for Scripts available to the user of the account, the latter for all users of a machine. Don’t get fooled by the [...]
This is a quick tip (and thus something I don’t have to remember as long as I have an Internet-connection and a browser at my disposal ) for all FrontBase-users out there. The following is a rundown of handy commands if you need to log activities on a database. sudo ln -s /Users/admin/FBLogs /Library/FrontBase/LogFiles(OS X) [...]
Just a quick tip: Repairing the permissions on an OS X disk can be done from the command-line as well. The only caveat, you have to know the device of the volume. Getting the right device is easy: diskutil list The device-node in question is in the column titled IDENTIFIER. The device-path to use is [...]
If you need to get the dimensions of an image-file via the command-line, let’s say in a script or an AppleScript, then there is a way to do so easily. Enter the scriptable image processing system or short sips. You didn’t know you got that installed on your OS X system alreay? Me neither. Assume, [...]