Archive for the ‘mac’ Category
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
I like running VirtualBox headless on my Mac. It doesn't show up in the Dock, and feels like it's a remote server.
First, figure out which VMs you have on your machine.
haddad-work:~ jhaddad$ VBoxManage list vms
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.6
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.
"WebServer" {2c61a180-e098-4926-b09a-27e431791c88}
Then ...
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
This is so useful to me that I have to repost it here, just in case it disappears.
# create a folder for the mount point
sudo mkdir /Volumes/music
# mount the disk
mount -t afp afp:/// /Volumes/music/
#refresh the finder for when you get back
disktool -r
# when you're done
sudo umount /Volumes/music
Found on macosxhints
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
As of a few hours after this post, I've given up trying to get Puppet Master running on Snow Leopard. There appears to be an issue with the SSL certificates generated that's preventing puppetd from getting it's recipes. There doesn't appear to be any way to disable this. ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
NumPy is a requirement to work with PyTables. This is the second step in the install process, after getting HDF5 set up.
These instructions are based on the ones found on the NumPy site, but I'm summarizing things for my own use later on.
First, you'll need to install the Fortran ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
I finally got fed up enough to look into this. I've previously used Samba mounts, but this in theory should be better.
http://www.turingtarpit.com/2009/04/mounting-remote-filesystems-on-osx-leopard-using-sshfs-macfuse-and-macfusion/
If you're using Snow Leopard, the drive will not be able to mount. You can get around this by deleting /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
When I get a new Mac, I go through the same steps every time. Yes I use a Mac as a dev box.
Software
Xcode
Adium
Launchbar
iTerm - change defaults to black background. (edit bookmarks, default, background)
Apache HTTP Server (source)
MySQL (source)
PHP (source)
Eclipse PDT
Omnigraffle
Fluid
BBEdit
SubEthaEdit
Git
SVN
Memcached
Tweaks
Remove everything from Dock.
Fix the look of the ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
I found this pretty amusing...
me:
i'm terrible w/ cocoa
i don't particularly like objective-c
it's to verbose
matt:
[me putonSock:blueOne onFoot:rightFoot ignoringHangNail:YES]
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
I've tried so many times to use Spaces, and I keep failing. As useful as it *should* be, it just never was. And I've finally realized why. Most of what I do is in a web browser. And spaces just wasn't made for that. I ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
It's unfortunate that I've reached this point, since I thought quicksilver was a really awesome piece of software. Unfortunately, it's just gotten to be completely unstable. Beach balls became all too common. So common, that I was willing to cough up $20 for LaunchBar after only trying ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I just bought a 1TB Western Digital drive. I am stoked.
However, I tried to format the drive on my Mac (Leopard) and got the error "File system formatter failed" when I tried to format the disk as MacOS Extended (Journaled). Not cool.
I found this forum thread which suggested ...
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