If your automatic housekeeping regarding log-files does not work in OS X 10.4, do it manually. Here’s how.
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Safari: Shortcut for the Restless
August 3, 2007 – 10:35 am
How-To: Accessing bookmarks in Safari’s bookmarks bar via the keyboard. At least, the first 9 of them.
Backing up with rsync
July 20, 2007 – 7:09 am
After writing the post Don’t forget to - -delete when rsyncing, I decided to write a little more about rsync, part of every well-groomed *NIX system, but Zonker was faster. Therefore, I’ll get out in the sun and present you with a link instead : Back up like an expert with rsync. Well done Zonker, you [...]
OS X: Mail.app Logging
July 16, 2007 – 11:09 am
How-To: Mail.app in OS X can be convinced to log its activities on a certain port, great for debugging connections.
TextMate / Docbook: Replacing quotes
March 30, 2007 – 12:26 pm
Sorry, the Docbook-Bundle is still not ready for public consumption, but here is one handy tip: I sometimes need to take my notes in a variety of programs, be it that I don’t have access to a certain program, be it that I just use the one that happens to be open at the moment, [...]
Blogging from TextMate
March 29, 2007 – 9:17 am
This is a very interesting feature in TextMate, especially since the bundle allows to choose the way the post is edited. If you are using a Mac and you are looking for a great text-editor, give TextMate a spin. I’m still testing it, but I think I’ll buy it. The reason? I’m working on a [...]
Reconstructing a cyrus mailbox on Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)
March 28, 2007 – 8:52 am
Hot-To: Reconstructing a corrupt cyrus-mailbox on OS X (Tiger). The GUI does not work at all times.
Don’t forget to –delete when rsyncing
February 7, 2007 – 6:50 pm
The program rsync is available on most *NIX/Linux platforms, but – contrary to the implication by its name – the program synchronizes only when used with the –delete-option. Let’s clarify first, what I mean by synchronizing: Assume we have a directory called fooboz, said directory contains two files, one named fooboz1.txt and another called fooboz2.txt. [...]
Enabling a Mac as an NTP-Server
November 3, 2006 – 11:32 am
How-To: Enabling the ntp-server-part of the OS X Client.