Move your Address Book birthdays into iCal
For no good reason, iCal 1.0 can’t automatically grab birthdays from your Address Book. iCal Birthday Shifter „addresses“ this problem! You can choose which calendar to add the birthday events to, and if you have a Birthdays calendar, it will be preselected automatically.
Auf Slashdot steht das jemand Konqueror unter OS X kompiliert hat. Bravo!
Hab einen (auf dem ersten Blick) ganz brauchbaren XML Editor gefunden: XMLmind XML Editor, davon gibts eine eingeschränkte kostenlose Version für WinXX, Linux und OS X, die aber für den Hausgebrauch ausreichen sollte. Besonderes Goody: integr. Wörterbücher für Deutsch, Spanisch, Englisch uvm.
On www.macosxhints.com there was a thread about the true speed of 867MHz Powerbooks. After checking on my Powerbook I got the same result:
minime:~ christian$ sysctl hw.cpufrequency hw.cpufrequency: 533333332
The solution was a PMU reset. The whole story can be read at docs.info.apple.com, the short is here (extracted):
1. If the computer is on, turn it off.
2. Reset the power manager by simultaneously pressing and then releasing Shift-Control-Option-power on the keyboard. Do not press the fn (Function) key while using this combination of keystrokes.
3. Wait 5 seconds.
4. Press the power button to restart the computer.
(Option-Key means ALT) after doing that you may have to check if the system clock shows the correct date and time. Now you shoud see the right speed:
minime:~ christian$ sysctl hw.cpufrequency
hw.cpufrequency: 866666664
Configure your own shortcuts to search or visit your favorite sites using just a few simple keystrokes in Safari (like using bookmark-shortcuts in mozilla). For example searching google.com for XYZ just type goo XYZ in Location bar.
iTerm free terminal emulation program for OS X. The especial thing on it is, that iTerm supports multi-tab working.
One can navigate between the different sessions using SHIFT-LEFT/RIGHT and lines in window-buffer with SHIFT-UP/DOWN, like in KDE-Console.
Mac und T610 harmonisieren recht gut. Hierzu ein paar Links:
– SMS mit dem Mac
– T610 als Fernbedienung
– Surfen via Bluetooth
finder
OS X´s finder can mount NFS-exports only if they don´t use an reserved socket port number (<1024), but Debian-boxes‘ nfsd-service uses these numbers by default. For exporting using unreseved ports, use insecure-key in /etc/exports on the Debian-box, eg:
/data *(rw,no_root_squash,insecure)
Now one can use Connect to Server oder AppleKey-K and as address nfs://servername/export for mounting.
mount_nfs
In terminal: mount_nfs -P servername:/export /mnt
Using automount
For using automount one has to do some NetInfo-settings. These can be easily done by NFS Manager or manualy using NetInfo-Manager oder nicl (in terminal). The entries are shown in the last posting
Sources:
http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man5/exports.5.gz
http://www.withay.com/macosx/nfs-client.html
To store data from the netinfo-database nidump can be used. This data can be imported again by using niload. The following example shows how to store the /mounts-section from netinfo and import it again.
# nidump -r /mounts . > mounts.raw # cat mounts.raw { "name" = ( "mounts" ); CHILDREN = ( { "name" = ( "gate:/data" ); "dir" = ( "/gate" ); "vfstype" = ( "nfs" ); "opts" = ( "-s", "-P", "-b" ); } ) } # niload -r /mounts . < mounts.raw
Creates a Image.dmg form the selected Medium/Folder
For burning Image.dmg open it with Disk Utility and select Burn.
Real men should have a look at hdiutil in the terminal.