Osx

At a time everyone is learning Objective-C and Cocoa in order to program for the iPhone, I’ve spent most of my time programming for OSX. After doing some contributions to Sidestep during my stay at CMU, I decided to endeavor deeper …

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I recently got a new Macbook Pro, which means I also moved to Snow Leopard (not that I couldn’t have stayed with Leopard). I keep a Time Machine backup, and could have used it to move all my files to the new system. But since I had to …

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It’s that time of the year again, when everyone rushes to upgrade their OS to their latest version that just got release or is in the process of… Upgrades are done because people techies just need to have the latest version of …

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So today I jumped over my head and went nutz by installing Safari 4 Beta. I Hate it! Changing the tabs position is messing up with my productivity. Is gaining 1 extra line worth it ? On the good side: It’s fast, and thats noticeable; …

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If you are faced with a restrictive firewall implemented by your local admin. But luckily enough to have access to a SSH server! You can use the following tip: A SOCKS proxy can easily be setup using SSH, in a terminal type: ssh -D 8080 -Nf …

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At home I keep a MacMini Media Center which from time to time I access it remotely. Usually I do this through the SSH Server in OS X. But eventually I might need to access it through a GUI. Here comes in hand Apple’s OS X nifty tool …

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Answering Alfredo’s challenge: My MacBook: $ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 148 ssh 63 ls 50 cd 29 ping 28 sudo 23 traceroute 21 scp 17 vi 17 ifconfig 15 route My Linux …

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For all of you switchers from Linux to OS X, that cannot live without a bash terminal open 24/24: You have probably, and sadly, realised that your Terminal does not come with “so nice to have” color tagging of files in your ls …

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