Toothpaste For Dinner - Antidextrous

July 22, 2009

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I must be antidextrous too.

Posterous keeps getting better

July 12, 2009

Posterous now supports even GitHub Gists - they keep adding support for more and more different sites, both for embedding and for auto-posting. I can't wait to get my iPhone, to use it more and more effectively everywhere.

http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-now-supports-traileraddict-embeds-a

Mate

June 30, 2009

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May 8, 2009

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How to trick an RHEL5 client install to use server RPMs

October 22, 2008

For one of my projects at work, I am using a test install of RHEL5 in "workstation" mode, but I needed to install some packages that are only available in the "server" package list. To temporarily make yum search the server repositories, just change the following line in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date:

versionOverride=5Server

(normally the value is empty).

Easy video conversion in Mac OS X

October 10, 2008

After a lot of searching (and trying iMovie) for how to convert a video file to flash (.flv) format, I found ffmpegX, a nice tool that does all the hard work, invoking other tools in the backend as needed.

Synchronizing 1Password data between two local accounts (howto)

September 29, 2008

I am a big fan of the incredibly useful 1Password. The latest beta release (2.8.3.BETA-11) introduces a new keychain format that, among other things, allows 1Password to detect changes made to the file by other programs and reload the changes on the fly. I am using this now to keep my 1P data synchronized between my work and personal accounts on my machine. Here's what I did:

In my work account (dza), switch to the AgileKeyChain format by following the instructions.
Modify the ACL for my ~/Library/Application Support/1Password/ folder to allow my personal account (zamboni) read/write access. I did this using the "Sharing & Permissions" section of the Info dialog for the folder, and then choosing "Apply to enclosed items" from the cogwheel menu in that same section.
Switch to my personal account.
Quit 1Password, run the defaults command from the instructions, restart 1Password.
Export my existing 1Password data in the "1Password Interchange file" format. To do this, choose File -> Export all -> 1Password Interchange File, and save it to a file in my desktop.
Double click /Users/dza/Library/Application Support/1Password/1Password.agilekeychain and click "yes" to start using that file.
Import the data from step 5: File -> Import, and follow the prompts. Wait for the data to import.
Switch back to my work account and verify that the imported items are seen there as well.

Adding growl notification to Raymond Page's bash prompt code

September 8, 2008

Update (2008/09/10): Giles Orr kindly pointed out that he is not the author of the bash prompt package I use, I have updated to give proper credit to the author, Raymond Page.

For some time I have used Raymond Page's bash prompt code (heavily based on the work by Giles Orr in the Bash Prompt HOWTO, you can get it at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Prompt_Magic or http://code.google.com/p/homenix/source/browse/, you need to get .prompt, .prompt_functions and .prompt_config from the trunk/ directory), which I like very much because it is highly customizable, and although a lot of the functions are Linux-specific, it can easily be made to work on Mac OS X. It features context-dependent prompt colorization (e.g. based on whether the current directory is writable and on the machine load), automatic shortening of the prompt based on window width, and many other features.

Updated script for defining a new wallet item in 1Password

September 8, 2008

If you have been using my method for defining new wallet items in 1Password, you may have noticed that in recent versions the display of those new items has been broken. I have updated the instructions and the script to work with the recent changes, you can get it from the same page.

Fixing Mail.app's recent mail addresses problem

September 2, 2008

I had noticed for a while that somehow my Mail.app's "recent mail addresses" list was not updating (I never seemed to get any of my recently used addresses in Quicksilver). Today I noticed the following error message in /var/log/system.log:

Mail[365]: AddressBook failed to save: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=259 UserInfo=0x10c9a810 "The file MailRecents-v4.abcdmr could not be opened because it is not in the right format." ({\n NSFilePath = "/Users/dza/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr";\n NSUnderlyingException = Fatal error. The database at /Users/dza/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr is corrupted. SQLite error code:1;\n})