To display the routing table in OSX
There is a ‘route’ command in OSX for the manipulation of the network routing tables–surprisingly, it doesn’t have a ‘route print’ option. If you’re used to viewing the routing table (from Windows) using the route print command, that option does not exist in OSX.
In order to display the routing table in OSX, you can [...]
How to put icons in the OSX dock
You can create an alias of the Application, then drag-and-drop it onto the dock; or;
Just open the Application for the first time—lots of ways to do to this, I always like to just hit Spotlight (cmd+spacebar), type the name of the app, then enter—when the application is opened, the icon will be visible in the [...]
Mac Mini microphone hack
The usual mic used in PC’s and headset-mic combos won’t work with the mac mini–the mac mini mic input requires line level input, meaning the mic needs to be powered. The usual mic input for PCs are mic level input (about 1 millivolt, the mic doesn’t need to be powered). Bottom line is, if you [...]
Mac driver for Samsung ML-1610
The ML-1610 Samsung laser printer has worked before on Leopard (OSX 10.5), I remember going to the Samsung site and downloading a driver–it was pretty painless then. For some reason, when I wiped out the installation of Leopard and installed Snow Leopard from scratch, the OSX driver on the Samsung site has disappeared, all of [...]
Sharing files between Ubuntu and OSX (Snow Leopard) using NFS
NFS (Network File System) is an old way of sharing files between UNIX systems. It was written way before the time when we started sharing files the way we are sharing them right now with Windows servers and workstations.
I actually would have not installed it, because I already have a Samba server in the [...]
Backing up and restoring SVN repositories
2 ways to back up subversion repositories; first is to dump the repo and reload it in another repo, and the second is to use hotcopy. The hotcopy technique has a more stringent requirement than using the dump technique–hotcopy requires that the version of SVN on the 2 servers (source and target) are the same, [...]
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