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GPG with Snow Leopards Mail.app
Posted by Thomas in
Apple
Monday, November 2. 2009
you can also try the official http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpgmail/ project. Not sure if this one works yet.
How to install Macports on Snow Leopard 10.6
Posted by Thomas in
Apple
Sunday, August 16. 2009
To improve our chance for a working ports tree, we have to use the latest subversion source code (August 2009).
1. Open up the Terminal
2. svn co http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base/ (Wait for it to finish checking out files)
3. cd base
4. ./configure
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. sudo /opt/local/bin/port -v selfupdate
I had to add /Developer/usr/bin and /Developer/usr/sbin to my .bash_profile
export PATH=/Developer/usr/bin:/Developer/usr/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
There are mailing list entries about problems with compiling python on Snow Leopard. This might change soon but be aware of such problems.
Update:Use sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants and then sudo port upgrade outdated to update all your old installed ports after selfupdate.
If you see errors like: ld: warning: in /opt/local/lib/libz.dylib, file is not of required architecture then you've to remove zlib and libiconv as installed ports and re-install it again.
sudo port uninstall -f libiconv zlib
sudo port install libiconv zlib
This may break some old dependencies. If so then you have to rebuild all related ports as well.
MFC ZFS Version 13 to FreeBSD stable (RELENG_7)
Posted by Thomas in
BSD
Sunday, May 17. 2009
Kip Macy has prepared ZFS v13 patches for RELENG_7. It's just a few days away from an official MFC (merge from current). You can download the latest patches from: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/kmacy/ZFS_MFC/
Please be careful. This has only been lightly tested. Please do not use it with data you care about at this time.
Continue reading "MFC ZFS Version 13 to FreeBSD stable (RELENG_7) "
ClickToFlash allows you to opt-in flash by clicking
Posted by Thomas in
Apple
Tuesday, May 12. 2009
Try control-clicking (or right-clicking) on an unloaded Flash box to access ClickToFlash's contextual menu which allows you to do advanced things like edit its whitelist, specify settings, and load all Flash on the page.
Download ClickToFlash.
Create a RamDisk with a GUI
Posted by Thomas in
Apple
Monday, May 11. 2009
Brightness controls for your iMac with Shades
Posted by Thomas in
Apple
Sunday, May 10. 2009
Charcoal Design Shades is a little application that gives you fine control over how bright or dim your iMac's display is. It runs in the background providing always-available fine-grained control over the brightness of your display via a Mac-like interface. It performs this without actually changing the real brightness of your display. It applies an opacity filter to your Desktop similar to Splasms Software Brightness Control
Both tools have no power saving effect! Shades is available as ppc, intel and universal binary.
How problems should be handled
Posted by Thomas in
ISP
Wednesday, April 15. 2009
First step:
You have to admit that a problem exists
Second step:
Inform your customer and identify the location of the problem. In our example it looks like:
The fiber break has been identified near motorway crossing BAB 5/67, 26.6 km from Lorsch in direction towards Frankfurt. The break is in a motorway crossing. Engineers are at the site for resolution.
Third step:
Give your customer more information.
The damage to the fibers has been caused due to drilling works at the site.Digging works will be started in 30 minutes. No ETR as yet.Add some abbreviations in common use like ETR which means "Estimated Time of Repair". Looks more geeky
All other steps are simliar to the third step. Start fixing it and update your customer as much as possible.
Update 4
The digging works are still in progress to find the duct route. As this is a laborious task it takes some time. We will keep you updated and give an ETR as soon as possible.
Update 5
The digging works are still in progress. The duct route for the north side of the cable cut has been found.
Update 6
Our providers are still working on the issue. The splicing works will commence in another 2 hours. The approximate ETR to fix all live services is around 10:00 GMT. We will update you once the splicing works are started.
Important: Add GMT or Timezone information. Not every customer lives in the same timezone as you.
Update 7
Splicing works are still in progress. One of our sections from Frankfurt to Strasbourg is up restoring a lot of traffic. A lot of traffic yet remains impacted and we are working towards a speedy resolution .As of now due to the huge task ahead the ETR remains unchanged – 10 GMT
Update 8
A majority of the services have been restored as works are in progress. We are still waiting for the complete resolution and ETR remains unchanged.
We will keep you updated on the issue.
Update 9
Majority of services have now been restored. Splicing repairs still ongoing. Full restoration of services expected in an hour.
Update 10
Full restoration of services completed
Thats how it should be done and thats who interoute.com has handled it last night. Well done. It may look obvious but it's not the common way most ISP/Carrier keep their customer informed.
FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE is on the way
Posted by Thomas in
BSD
Tuesday, November 25. 2008
The Blueshirts came, they saw, and the conquered.
Posted by Thomas in
My World
Thursday, October 2. 2008
Day 1:
It had been 49 years since the Rangers last visit to Switzerland and it was the first exibition game between an NHL Team and a Swiss National A League Team. Over 16'000 people witnessed the Rangers victory. The New York Rangers outshot SC Bern 12-3 in the first period but until the third period the Rangers had only a close 2-1 lead. At the end the Rangers overpower SC Bern. A third period scoring spree gave Blueshirts a comfortable 8-1 win.
Day 2:
The New York Rangers won the inaugural Victoria Cup against the European Champions Cup winner Metallurg Magnitogorsk (KHL) from Russia. It was the first game between NHL and Russian teams in 17 years.
Metallurg Magnitogorsk had a strong three to nothing lead for nearly 40 minutes. They played very well and had a few chances to increase their lead.
Chris Drury cut it to 3-1 with a two-man advantage late in the second period and Dan Fritsche made it a one-goal game at 5:45 of the third. Drury again tied it with a little under 10 minutes left.
The last ten minutes of the game were intense. With 20 second remaining, Ryan Callahan intercepted a Metallurg pass from Malenkikh and found himself on a breakaway which he didn't miss. A great 4:3 comeback victory for the Rangers.
I took a few pictures.
FreeBSD Ports tree has been unfrozen
Posted by Thomas in
BSD
Thursday, September 25. 2008
crashinfo(8)
Posted by Thomas in
BSD
Wednesday, September 24. 2008
The crashinfo utility automatic analyzes a core dump saved by savecore(8) in /var/crash/. Once crashinfo has located a core dump and kernel, it uses several utilities to analyze the core including dmesg(8), fstat(1), iostat(8), ipcs(1), kgdb(1), netstat(1), nfsstat(1), ps(1), pstat(8), and vmstat(8). For a given core dump file named vmcore.XX the generated text file will be named core.txt.XX.
A handy tool. I hope this improves kernel panic reports from unexperienced user in the future.
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