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Adding mcrypt support to builtin php5 on OSX Leopard….
I got a request to add mcrypt support to our Leopard server today and here is a brief step-by-step installation instruction. This works well under the current 10.5.8 server installation. It should also work for 10.6 (snow leopard), but I have not tried it. Before you start here are the requirements: Backup your system Install…
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Adding GD support to builtin php5 on OSX Leopard….
I got a request to add GD support to our Leopard server today and here is a brief step-by-step installation instruction. This works well under the current 10.5.8 server installation. It should also work for 10.6 (snow leopard), but I have not tried it. Before you start here are the requirements: Backup your system Install…
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Optimizing Snow Leopard for SSD drives….
I just installed a new 128GB SSD drive in my older C2D 17″ macbook Pro and let me tell you….WOW….This thing is on fire. The system is extremely responsive and apps literally jump onto the screen. The machine now boots up to full desktop in roughly 17 seconds. Now that’s nice. I did do a…
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Five minute Augmented Reality via Quartz Composer….
Great little video on how to setup AR marker recognition under QC. Even has a nice mellow background music :-).
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I wonder what it will look like in 2020….
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Terminal Tip: Finding information about a mp3 audio file…
Here is a quick tip for you OSX command line fans. If you want to find metadata information about a mp3 file use the “afinfo” command. Very quick and scripting friendly. Here is a example: $ afinfo 08_\ Lily\ Allen\ -\ Fk\ You.mp3 File: 08_ Lily Allen – Fk You.mp3 File type ID: MPG3 Data…
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say -v "Bad News" fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk
TSIA
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Map any network drive to Mac OS X that auto mounts after system reboot
Here is a quick recipe for making a network drive auto mount on your OSX machine. This works with pretty much any protocol supported by Finders “Connect to Server” option. Here is how you do it: From the Finder, hit Command+K or select Connect to Server from the Go menu. You’ll see the following window,…
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Reset iTunes 10 window control buttons
Not sure what’s happening lately in the Apple UI design department. Someone over there decided to reposition the window control buttons (you know x,-,+ aka. close,minimize,maximize) vertically in the latest itunes10 (see pics below). If you prefer the old (proper) way of having them ordered horizontally (see picture above), you can use the commands below:…
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OSX Server: Could not setup Mach task special port 9
com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10f860.cron[43786]): Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access If you’re seeing this warning/error in your OSX Server log files, it is more than likely caused by cron running jobs for mailman subsystem. Even if the Mail process is disabled in Server Admin, OSX will try to run these cron jobs.…