Archive for the ‘CLI’ Category
Copying a disk image onto a CF card using Unix dd is a trivial task (unless you make a mistake when specifying the output file (the of= option) — recovery from that kind of mistake can be a bitch. )
dd if=disk.image of=/dev/da0
dd starts copying with a default blocksize of 512 bytes.
Copying a 4 [...]
I've finally put the (rather messy) source of jndcalx on Github for you to grab, fix, and improve on.
jndcalx runs on a computer with installed Lotus Notes (Mac OS X, Windows or Linux) and a Web server, and it creates iCalendar output (.ics) on the fly, without having to manually export and import your calendar. [...]
The other day, a friend and I where making fun of somebody who is known to say that the DNS is always at fault. Since no normal human being knows what dig is, let alone how to use it, we thought of building a mail to DNS gateway as a joke. Anyhow, the whole thing [...]
Mac OS X' iCal has a Birthdays calendar which pulls birthdays you set in Address Book and displays them, and this works very nicely, but it doesn't satisfy my needs. First, because I manage birthdays differently, and second, because I sometimes have more than one birthday reminder for a single address book entry. (E.g. one [...]
Martin's GhettoPush, which I talked about recently is being heavily used here. So much, that I've implemented some changes, that Martin has kindly merged back into his master repository.
The two additions I submitted to the code are both very similar — almost identical. They enable us to exclude certain e-mail messages from being Prowl'ed. You [...]
Prowl is a Growl-like client for the iPhone which accepts notifications from your computer (Mac, Windows) using push. UNIX and Linux systems are also supported via a third-party API that you can use to build your own applications. Installing Prowl is easy enough, and doing so in conjunction with Growl is well explained.
In order to [...]
The Bacula project released version 3.0.3 with a number of important changes, and Stefan has packaged it for the ReadyNAS NV+. I've beta-tested the port, and it works like a charm.
The download is coming to a site near you as soon as possible, and I've already written about how I got it set up.
I recently mentioned to Stefan Rubner that the Bacula network backup toolchain would be a really great addition to the line of tools available for the ReadyNAS NV+-line of NAS devices, so he got cracking and ported Bacula 3.0.2 to that platform under the condition that I would beta-test it.
What I want to have running [...]