I recently decided to migrate away from OSX’s default ruby install yesterday and noticed a few quirky hangups. Firstly, for some reason, and I’m not sure if it is just me or not, OSX’s default $PATH variable is putting /usr/local/bin AFTER /bin making your local installs not enabled by default. (Editing the /etc/paths didn’t do [...]
Update!
Switch spaces using your Apple Remote! (Or view the project on GitHub)
I was just goin around on the interblagosphere today and stumbled upon Erling Ellingsen’s smackbook pro. If you’ve never heard of this then you’re in for a shock. The basic idea behind what he has created is a way to switch virtual desktops simply [...]
This is a short and sweet post. I was trying to merge and sync all my calendars (something I do every so often which leaves me frustrated, drunk and huddled in a corner crying) and decided on google calendar as a main point since I have my work Outlook synced up with it (using their [...]
I was reading up on another one of those “top X command line hacks for OS X” posts (more specifically Mac OS X Tips) and came across something I never really paid attention to. It was the “Inspect Element” menu item on the right-click menu in safari. If you don’t see this, thats probably because [...]
Okay — so after that last post I decided it was time for a change. I’ve had the same bash prompt for years and was starting to get tired of it. Over the past 30 or so minutes I’ve been hating life learning way more than I wanted to about PS1, colors and embedded IF [...]
I have absolutely no idea what to title this as — and frankly, its more for me than anyone else. I need a place to store this before I forget and go racking my brain 2 years from now on how to do this.
If you think you’re interested — this post is about the following:
How [...]
This is a neat little “trick” to prepend something simple to the beginning of a file. Linux is funny in the way that you can easily append to a file by using echo “append me to the file” >> FILE but theres no real simple way to prepend. Most snippets I’ve seen use a tmp [...]
Because I’ll forget #1023
Problem
Use Linux’s “find” command to hunt recursively through the current directory tree and find all matching files. While this is simple enough, I’m an idiot and tend to delete important files when drinking working too much — which we all know sucks. It would be nice to have it take all found [...]
Because I’ll Forget #15901:
Firstly, let me just say that compiling PHP has never been this difficult before. It shouldn’t be difficult at all actually. So heres the basic run down: I need SOAP, GD, SimpleXML and a few other miscellaneous extensions to make all my dev apps work properly — this went smoothly on the [...]
Because I’ll Forget #1023:
Problem
I know how to _USE_ icon sets and set my icons*. My issue is that I want to take a folder of, say, *.PNG files and make the icon reflect the contents. I did some digging, and the solution is pretty simple — AND elegant.
Solution
There is a relatively unknown program, at least [...]
