Oct

9

Mac OS X Lion – iCal default event length

October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment

 I upgraded to OS X Lion on release day (I’m more of a geek all the time) and I was very confused with iCal. It immediatly appeared that all the events I created were now set to “all day” by default and I found this very annoying (they used to be set for the default [...]

Aug

3

Mac OS X: mount a network drive at startup

August 3, 2011 | 1 Comment

In case you are sharing a disk over network and you want it to be available on your Mac automatically at boot up, you can have it auto mount at login. Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups. Make sure your user is selected on the left and go to the Login Items tab [...]

Aug

3

Create a NAS with a DD-WRT router

August 3, 2011 | 3 Comments

A quick note on how to share a USB drive over your private network (Network Attached Storage) using a router running on the DD-WRT firmware. Needless to say, your router needs to have a USB port for this feature to be enabled in the firmware. Plug the drive in your router USB port and turn [...]

Jul

31

Router, VPN and American IP

July 31, 2011 | 1 Comment

I happen to know an American in Paris. Expats have a wide range of specific problems that most people don’t really ever worry over, for example : how do you teach a child two languages (hoping the child won’t mix them up) do you have to declare/pay taxes in your country of origin ? which [...]

Jul

31

Zend Server Community Edition for Mac OS X – MySQL permissions

July 31, 2011 | 2 Comments

I upgraded to Lion and everything went fine. Just a minor – known – issue with MySQL server as installed by the Zend Server Community Edition. I already wrote about solving the mysql error which prevents the server from starting. Researching this again, I found more information about it. Whether running on OS X or [...]

Jul

28

Move your mySQL data on OS X

July 28, 2011 | 3 Comments

I wanted to change the location of my SQL databases in order for them to be in my user’s home folder (that way, my databases would be portable as I travel with my user’s home folder). By default, when you install mySQL on OS X, everything is located at /usr/local/mysql and the data folder (the [...]

Jun

12

Watching movies on the iPad

June 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment

One of the thing I wanted to do with the iPad was to watch movies on the go (remember the last time you flew transatlantic and you had to watch The Karate Kid ?…) At this point, I had no Movies, nor TV Shows in my iTunes so I am really starting from scratch here. [...]

Jun

11

Picasa: how to download a full album?

June 11, 2011 | 2 Comments

From what I understand, the Picasa application on Windows enables the download of all the photos contained in a given album but that isn’t the case on Mac. In addition, some prefer not to install the Picasa Desktop application for Mac and it shouldn’t be necessary to do so just to download pictures. There is [...]

Jun

10

MPD: Music Player Daemon

June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

About a year and a half ago, the price of Hard Drives (and their size) suddenly made it possible for us to imagine having most of our content (music, DVDs) archived on Hard Drives and easily accessible across devices. As it turns out, we are still in the process of importing some of our CDs [...]

Jun

7

Installing OpenSSH on Windows 7

June 7, 2011 | 11 Comments

Today, I was tempted to take control of a Windows machine remotely in console mode as I’m trying to script the launch and use of VLC. A quick Google search reveleaed the existence of the sshwindows project which is a more lightweight solution than a full cygwin installation. Here are the installation steps : Download [...]

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