Flo's thoughts

hilarious shell

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:10:48 +0100

when i tried to start a server today with the wrong user, i just used sudo to start him anyway.

sudo /etc/init.d/mainserver start

and that’s what the shell told me, before executing my command :D

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator.
It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

root’s password:

Remembering Steve

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:42:52 +0200

Now that most websites switched back to their normal appearance I wanted to share a few of the versions that showed up after Steve’s passing, because their were lovely.

Pilotmoon Blog: Scroll Reverser — get in practice for Lion

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:02:16 +0200

Pilotmoon Blog: Scroll Reverser — get in practice for Lion:

pilotmoon:

You might have learned that a certain upcoming version of Mac OS X may have scrolling that is “bass-ackwards”.

That is, when you push up on your trackpad or mouse scroller, the page content moves up too, just like on iOS devices.

I made a very minimal little app that lets you reverse…

Easy Versions syncing using Dropbox

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:14:00 +0200

For our subversion repositories we’re using Sofa’s awesome app Versions. If you’re working with subversion on a Mac go get it here.

Only downside: No bookmark syncing between computers. Today it bugged me enough to come up with a solution. Ok, fair enough, this is kinda obvious, but maybe you’re at the same point:

ln -s ~/Dropbox/Versions/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/Versions

Just move your Versions directory (which contains your Bookmarks.plist) to your Dropbox (or any other cloud location) and create a symlink to it at the directory’s old location.

Update

Ok, turns out, syncing the whole folder is maybe not the best idea. The license is located in the same folder and two computers accessing the same license seem to cause some trouble making one of the clients go back to trial mode.

So I changed the symlink to only point to the Bookmarks.plist itself. If you did it the same way I did it the following lines should help you:

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/
unlink Versions
mkdir Versions
cd Versions
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Versions/Bookmarks.plist ~/Library/Application\ Support/Versions/Bookmarks.plist

BTW: No Dropbox? Get it here and make us both get some extra megabytes.

Network Testing

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:56:48 +0200

cocoa-dom:

If you put in network code into your apps, it is always important to test against bad network conditions. While this isn’t too trivial, it was always possible using dummynet.

However, now new in Lion is a Preference pane to use, so you don’t have any excuses anymore for not testing: Network Link Conditioner - Use it and use it heavily - real life network conditions, especially on iOS, are never as good as in your pristine office big bad ass network location.

Photo

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:16:17 +0200

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make..."

Mon, 23 May 2011 18:52:12 +0200

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

- Steve Jobs (via tmblg)

ianbrooks: Give me a kiss :3 (via: reddit)

Sun, 08 May 2011 12:04:24 +0200

ianbrooks:

Give me a kiss :3

(via: reddit)

matola: Hobbit/Hobbyte

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:39:16 +0200

matola:

Hobbit/Hobbyte

When the iOS backup in iTunes fails…

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:28:54 +0200

… and iTunes tells you on start that “iTunes was unable to load data class information from Sync Services…” try this one. It took a few different attempts and some time of googling so I hope this helps.

ran-dom: All fanboys chant along. Steve Jobs iPhone...

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:34:51 +0100

ran-dom:

All fanboys chant along. Steve Jobs iPhone Introduction Auto Tune Song. What a ride since 2007.

Creating tons of tasks for keeping track of the series you're watching

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:09:47 +0100

Since I started watching “How I Met Your Mother” somewhen the last two weeks I was wondering how I should keep track of the episodes I’ve already seen. So I spent a few minutes googling. I assume there are some web services or apps that do that for you. But I neither wanted to sign up for another service nor did I want another app for that.

“Why not add all the episodes to Things?”, I thought. That would make perfect sense for me since Things is the application I’m using for all the tasks one can tick off. Yeah, I love making lists and ticking off things to see the progress I made.

I remembered Things is fully scriptable so I decided to build a quick and dirty AppleScript to batch-create all these tasks. :) Hope this helps someone.

tell application “Things”

repeat with theSeasonValue from 1 to 6

repeat with theEpisodeValue from 1 to 22

set epsiodeIdentifier to (“S” & theSeasonValue as string) & “E” & theEpisodeValue as string

set newToDo to make new to do with properties {name:”watch HIMYM ” & epsiodeIdentifier} at end of area “Personal”

end repeat

end repeat

end tell

juliaroy: Geeky girls are lovable. via...

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:57:08 +0100

juliaroy:

Geeky girls are lovable.

via main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com

when using your dell 1320, do you need to have your PC on, or can you rely on the network server in the printer.
I mean, the cool part about printing from the ipad is, that you don't have to go an turn on your pc

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:51:04 +0100

I did not try it without the computer being turned on yet. But since the configuration happened on that machine I would guess that it wouldn’t work without it.

Using AirPrint with every (?) printer

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:07:00 +0100

Using AirPrint with every (?) printer:

Since Apple announced that we’d be able to print directly from our iOS devices once 4.2 arrives I was pretty excited to get my hands on the new version. Equally disappointed I was when I first saw the list of supported printers.

Today I ran across a German blogpost which describes how to get every printer working with AirPrint by running an Apple Script and re-installing the printer. You can download the script here. Follow these steps once you have downloaded Simone’s script:

Run the script by double clicking it
Authorize as an administrator
Restart your Mac*
Remove the printer you want to make available
Re-install it and make it accessible on the network
That’s it!

I tried it with a DELL 1320c at the office and an HP Officejet J6400 at home and it worked like a charm with both of them!

Thank you, Simone!

*) You don’t need to neccessarily restart your Mac. It’s ok to run

sudo killall cupsd

in Terminal.app.

The 1140px CSS Grid System/Framework · Fluid down to mobile

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:43:55 +0100

The 1140px CSS Grid System/Framework · Fluid down to mobile:

I’m not that much in into this whole web, HTML and CSS thing, but this seems to be very impressive to me. Hope we (and by ‘we’ I mean Daniel ;)) can do project with this in the near future.

think .: What Makes A Good Bug Report?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:23:38 +0100

think .: What Makes A Good Bug Report?:

mhay68:

A good bug report is one that describes the problem well enough that someone familiar with the project can understand and act on that bug report without talking to the person who wrote it.

That’s the line. Anything less is simply not good enough.

Any group that develops software needs to…

Aweditorium - Aural Happiness

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:04:56 +0100

Aweditorium - Aural Happiness:

This is what made my day today. Give it a try if you have your iPad around—it’s free!

Very interesting. Looking forward to see the RIM device in real...

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:10:37 +0100

Very interesting. Looking forward to see the RIM device in real life.

BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad Comparison: Web Fidelity (via BlackBerry)

Steven Frank - stevenf.com: When I heard that the new MacBook Air models were shipping without any...

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:55:52 +0200

Steven Frank - stevenf.com: When I heard that the new MacBook Air models were shipping without any...:

stevenf:

When I heard that the new MacBook Air models were shipping without any Flash plug-in installed, the first thing I did was check to see if one of my long-standing Safari annoyances was fixed. It was.

It used to be that if you completely removed the Flash and Shockwave plug-ins, by deleting or…