GnuPG για MacOSX Snow Leopard
Τελικά βγήκε ένα bundle για GPGMe support στο Mail.app! Εδώ είναι το MailBundle. Απλά βάλτε το στον φάκελο $HOME/Library/Mail/Bundles/ και θα το δείτε στο Mail.app menu
About Launchd and OSX issues. Is it really that good?
A couple of weeks ago, while I was trying to solve a problem with dnsmasq not starting at boot, I decided to take a closer look at launchd. This is Apple’s cheering baby. The Cupertino company brought a new UNIX init system because the ones around were not enough and all the choices at the time [...]
Samhain and rsync issues under MacOSX
I like to keep things secure. I have a few monitoring applications running on my OSX Tiger server1. After a little search for a nice IDS, I bypassed the notorious AIDE, for Samhain. I’ve been watching this project since 2007 but never actually used it.
Since MacPorts do not have a port for this, I created [...]
ZFS For MacOSX
Well, I can’t wait to try this one! The ZFS filesystem, was created by Sun Microsystems and should have been shipped with Snow Leopard. However, Apple was not ready for that - apparently too big – change yet so we got good old HFS+. Well, although the project has been discontinued by Apple as you can [...]
Ελληνικά σε OSX 8.11.0 Tiger μέσω SSH
Χρησιμοποιώ τα Ελληνικά (UTF-8) και σε console αρκετά. Το Snow Leopard έχει σωστό UTF-8 support αλλά και το Tiger δεν έχει πρόβλημα με το UTF-8 αντίθετα με αυτό που πιστεύουν πολλοί. Το πρόβλημα είναι τα locales και το sshd_config.
Η προκαθορισμένη shell στο δικό μου σύστημα είναι η zsh. Παρόλα αυτά οι περισσότεροι υποθέτω πως [...]
Create disk image using dd under OSX
Here is a handy list of commands using macosx native diskutil command. In my case for creating a USB image of Moblin v 2.0 for my atom powered Acer Aspire One Z5.
$ diskutil list
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
$ sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1024
angel:Netbook atma$ sudo dd if=moblin-2.0-final-20090924-001.img of=/dev/disk4
Password:
1476608+0 records in
1476608+0 records out
756023296 bytes transferred in 1924.583704 [...]
