Archive for the ‘MacOSX’ Category

Martin introduced me to the Samhain file integrity monitor a while back — an impressive bit of software with which I've spent some quality time. I was much impressed with the features of the software, and I thought I'd spread the word a bit, so I wrote a short introductory article to it. The article [...]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 09:52 | 1 comment
Categories: CLI, Linux, MacOSX, Security

This might take a few minutes…

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 20:11 | 0 comments
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A little too heavy: a CPU and a bit.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 17:38 | 0 comments
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This must be the first time I notice this prompt can be confusing:

Serves me right for doing open docs/FAQ.html.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 at 20:16 | 0 comments
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Do you want to quickly experience CouchDB's powerful replication? Jan Lehnardt, one of the people behind CouchDB, announced yesterday that he'd made a copy of the very good book Pro Git available as a CouchDB Application (a CouchApp). There are two ways you can go about getting that:

Follow his instructions on getting the app with [...]

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 09:21 | 0 comments
Categories: Books, CLI, Database, MacOSX, NoSQL
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at 08:18 | 0 comments
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Having recently bought a USB headset to replace the lousy thing I had before, I wanted a quick way to switch the Mac’s audio output between the display output and the headset.

SoundSource is a handy system-wide menu bar for that.

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 17:09 | 0 comments
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I wanted something a bit more comfortable than mv to rename a large number of directories with funny names in them. (No, shell meta-characters wouldn't help, so I couldn't do it programatically.) I built ded, the directory editor, a pretty useful tool for doing just that and a lot more.

ded is a vi-like tool to [...]

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 13:54 | 0 comments
Categories: Linux, MacOSX, Software
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