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Article on Directory Services Plug-ins on AFP548
I published an article up on AFP548 on how directory services plug-ins work. If you’re curious about directory services plug-ins or just unable to sleep and need something to knock you out, this should be an interesting read.
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Safari Command-Clicks & Tabs
Using Safari is like going to In-n-Out for a burger – it’s all about ordering off the menu. But instead of a “4 by 4 animal style” I’m going to order a browser that attempts to open every link I click in a new tab, even if it tries to open in a new window. Even realizing that if I click on it using the command-click it will open a new tab anyway. To do so, we’re going to use the TargetedClicksCreateTabs key in the com.apple.Safari.plist file by using the following command: defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true I have an opposite day situation. I also need to completely disable…
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Editing the Custom Dictionary in Mac OS X
In the en file located in the ~/Library/Spelling directory you’ll find any custom entries into the Mac OS X dictionary. Each will be followed by a ^@ and there will be a final one with no characters at the end. You can remove entries by removing the word followed by the ^@. You can also add items into the custom dictionary by adding the word at the end of the en file along with a trailing ^@. Each item is stored in the order that it was added and so you can also gain a little insight into when each word was added. So, if you push out a custom…
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6TB of Hot Swappable Drives for $600
IcyDock makes a 4 port chassis for SATA drives that allows you to build your own RAID out of large and inexpensive drives. The resultant JBOD can then be formatted into RAID0 or RAID1 (software RAID) and presented to backup applications (ie – Retrospect) as offline storage. Amazon sells an IcyDock, populated with 1.5TB drives for a total of 6TB, which is how I’m now snapshotting my VMs in my lab. I’m also using it as the backup destination for my home Kerio server. Works nicely so far. You can also buy the IcyDock with no drives and likely populate them with 2TB drives, although I haven’t tested this yet…
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Windows Login Screen Customizations
OK, OK, you’re right – if I’m going to cover customizing the loginwindow of Mac OS X then the least I can do is cover Windows as well. Because the registry is basically a bigger, more monolithic version of the defaults domains, we’re going to do pretty much the same stuff at the login screen for Windows. First, open the registry editor (regedit) and browse to HKEY USERS .DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop Then edit the value for wallpaper, typing in the path to the image you’d like to use. To set it as tiled add TileWallPaper and set it to the integer 1 or to stretch add WallPaperStyle and set it to the…
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Video on Creating Productions in Final Cut Server
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Looking at Google Android's Internals
Google’s Android is a very small Linux distribution. Recently I needed to test some applications that were developed by a couple of friends of mine. Rather than run out to T-Mobile I figured I’d just install the new LiveAndroid disk and thought I would write up how to get setup using VMware Fusion and then go about doing some tasks with Android. To get started make sure you’re running the latest Fusion (or Parallels or Q or VirtualBox). Then download two ISO files from http://code.google.com/p/live-android/ liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 and liveandroidv0.2.iso.002. Once you have downloaded the two ISO files we’re going to need to join them. To do so cat liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 liveandroidv0.2.iso.002 >…
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