I find the locate command useful, and so like to keep the locate database more or less current. OS X makes this harder than it needs to be by hiding the updatedb command. Here’s how to fix it.
sudo ln -s /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb /usr/local/bin/updatedb
Secrets is a very nice preference pane that lets you tweak all sorts of Mac application settings. It is open source, and driven by an online database, making it easy to add new tweaks as they are discovered. By the author of of the indispensable Quicksilver; need I say more?
We’ve been moving to the Mac Pro as our standard development box where I work. … We’ve been buying from Crucial, but today I was reading a review of the new Mac Pro’s in Ars Technica, and they mentioned an outfit called Other World Computing .
Macs have a habit of littering remote servers with .DS_Store files. Apple explains how to make it stop:
To configure a Mac OS X user account so that .DS_Store files are not created when interacting with a remote file server using the Finder, follow the steps below. Note: This will affect the user’s interactions [...]
If you routinely move text files among Windows, Macs, and *nix machines, you may want to convert from one style of line endings to another. The flip program is very handy. Here’s the scoop:
Usage: flip [-t|-u|-d|-m] filename[s]
Converts ASCII files between Unix, MS-DOS/Windows, or Macintosh newline formats
Options:
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I installed the software firewall GlowWorm on my G4 Powerbook running OS X 10.5.1. It hosed my system something fierce; don’t do it. Everything froze, and I had to cycle power to reset the machine. Subsequently the machine would not restart normally. I had to reboot in safe mode ( first time ever) and then [...]
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