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Prevent SSL warnings for certain CA certificates [www.macosxhints.com]

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01:48 PM, 11 Nov 2007 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Mac OS 10.3 and firewire [www.macintouch.com]

I'm beginning what I expect to be a long research project into how to get my Mac's external firewire disk working again. About a week ago, it disappeared, and is not recognized at all.

Let's begin the diagnosis.

First of all, Macintouch has a very worrysome article on Firewire in 10.3. It looks like there were some very serious bugs in the firmware or in 10.3 that are causing data loss and corruption in external Firewire disks. Great. Let's cross our fingers that that is not what happened... although I am concerned it might be exactly that.

http://www.macintouch.com/panfirewire.html

Well, it looks like I am in luck. The drive I have is a dual connection, so I was able to connect to it via USB. Perhaps the Firewire cable went bad?

11:03 AM, 09 Nov 2006 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

USPS Click-N-Print [sss-web.usps.com]

The USPS has a site where you can print off your postage for sending packages and letters.

Cool, except it doesn't work with Preview. You must open your final label in Acrobat Reader.

But after I figured that out, it worked beautifully!

08:17 PM, 26 Sep 2006 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Multiple OS X Desktops using OSXvnc [www.redstonesoftware.com]

Very cool and free.

06:34 PM, 30 Dec 2005 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

iCal won't start up

iCal was crashing every time I started it up. I had to trash all the iCal preference files from the ~/Library/Preferences, and then it worked again.

10:53 AM, 17 Mar 2005 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

How to podcast [www.engadget.com]

and this article describes how to record a Skype conversation for Podcasting purposes.

07:30 PM, 25 Jan 2005 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Oracle 10g for the Mac [www.oracle.com]

Oracle 10g is out on the Mac.

10:31 AM, 27 Dec 2004 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Enabling VNC on Mac OS X [www.macdevcenter.com]

Interesting article.

10:42 PM, 07 Dec 2004 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview [developer.apple.com]

Lists what's coming in Mac OS 10.4. Some of it is very very cool.

11:03 PM, 17 Nov 2004 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Use X11 from Apple's Terminal app

This is the coolest tip I've heard in a while. I didn't even realize it was possible...

In your /etc/profile:

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

# added to allow X11 applications to run
if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]]
then
export DISPLAY=:0.0
fi

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
export PATH

[ -r /etc/bashrc ] && source /etc/bashrc

Open up X11, and now you can use X11 apps from the terminal. Nice!

You can set up X11 to boot on startup, in the background, and now you have seamless X11 / Terminal use.

12:12 PM, 12 Nov 2004 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (1)

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