Apr

26

A Single User Across Multiple Computers

April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

The problem : The problem is famous : how to keep multiple computers in sync in order to have access to our data no matter where we are, no matter which computer we are using. It isn’t the first time I wonder about how to improve this aspect of my computer setup and I must [...]

Apr

24

Dead iMac, a geek’s nightmare (with Happy Ending)

April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

On tuesday this week, my iMac started acting up. It would boot successfully, run normally for a while but sometimes hang from 20 to 60 seconds in a row with the spinning beach ball cursor. I quickly identified two things : hangs would occur when launching apps or triggering the launcher (spotlight, Alfred) which meant [...]

Apr

17

Change the default language and keyboard layout of a Debian machine

April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Recently, I was given a Virtual Machine development appliance to work with. The machine was running Debian which I like but it had been installed in French which I … dislike. First, I find Debian to be not so well translated and I’d rather use it in English. Second, I use qwerty keyboards so the [...]

Apr

17

Convert a VMWare Player appliance to be used with Virtual Box

April 17, 2011 | 1 Comment

As I understand, this post might soon be outdated if the next version of Virtual Box does manage to natively run VMWare Player appliances. Still, this version hasn’t be released yet and, since the VMWare Player doesn’t exist for OS X, I had to convert an appliance from VMWare player to Virtual Box. Here are [...]

Apr

10

Getting rid of the .DS_Store files

April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

If you are a Mac user only, you might not be aware of the trail of files our OS leaves in every folder you open and browse but as soon as you share data/external hard drives or network drives with a Windows or Linux user (or if you use multiple OS) they become a bummer [...]

Feb

27

Creating a Mac OS X Finder Droplet for iTerm

February 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Recently, I stumbled on the Textmate droplet by Henrik Nyh allowing me to quickly open a file or a folder in Textmate by dragging it to the Finder toolbar. Since I had just setup iTerm2 and learned to script it with AppleScript, I figured I’d put the two together and create my own iTerm2 droplet. [...]

Jan

29

iTerm2: advanced features

January 29, 2011 | 5 Comments

At bluekiwi, I constantly have no less than 10 opened terminal sessions at the same time. Because it is so easy to launch a command in the wrong window (on the wrong server), I got used to always order my tabs the same way and always give them the same name. As I needed more [...]

Jan

29

ZendServer Community Edition on Mac OS X: compiling PHP extensions

January 29, 2011 | 3 Comments

This post aims to explain how to compile a PHP extension for ZendServer CE on Mac OS X based on my experience with the memcache extension. As it turns out, the memcache extension included in ZendServer CE 5.0.4 is version 2.2.5 which doesn’t work with the latest version of the memcached server insatlled by macposts [...]

Jan

24

Installing Mint on Virtual Box (from an .iso)

January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment

From time to time, I feel like testing a Linux distrib. again. I always used Debian on my servers so, for me, on a desktop, the easy solution was Ubuntu. Then I heard about Mint debian. I just downloaded the Mint debian 10.iso file and ran it on my Imac with VirtualBox in a matter [...]

Jan

23

FTP upload in a script

January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The FTP protocol is simple to use. In a console, type ftp <host> to connect to your host. Enter your login and password when prompted and use get to download and put to upload a file. But what about doing that in a bash script ? Here is a working example of an FTP upload [...]

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