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Difference between Hammer Drill and Impact Driver

sarvinc — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:01:16 +0000

Sometimes I really do use this place as a scratch pad. This is one of those times. Plus, some pretty useful comments.

http://thewoodwhisperer.com/drills-vs-hammer-drills-vs-impact-drivers/

Find your UDID After Installing Beta Firmware

sarvinc — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:27:26 +0000

I recently had my iPhone replaced and forgot to register the new UDID. After updating the phone and before registering you won’t be able to get the UDID from the phone or iTunes. Instead, use the “System Information” application found in /Applications/Utilities. If the phone is plugged in to your Mac it should show up under the USB area. Good Luck!

Exchange 2003 with Apple Mail 5

sarvinc — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:26:07 +0000

Apple Mail ver. 5 doesn’t work with Exchange 2003. However, there’s a third-party solution that works pretty well. DavMail is a client that sits between Exchange and Mail. I’m a stickler for efficiency and I hate to waste CPU-cycles, but this worth taking a look at.

DavMail has some pretty handy set-up instructions so I won’t go in to that. One feature I immediately missed was the option of not having DavMail’s App icon in the dock. Here’s how to alleviate that problem.Fire up a terminal and run these commands:

cd /Applications/DavMail.app/Contents
cp Info-nodock.plist Info.plist

That’s it. The next time you start DavMail the only hint of it running will be in the menu bar.
Add DavMail to your start-up items to have it automatically start when OS X boots.

Sorting Full Screen Apps in OS X’s Mission Control

sarvinc — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:06:41 +0000

Trying to sort full-screen apps in Lion? Here’s how

System Preferences
Mission Control
Check “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use

This allows you to organize your full-screen apps by alt-tabbing through them (yeah not the greatest).

Bonus:
I’m still trying to get used to the three-finger swipes and accidentally alt-tab once in a while. Alt-tabbing once I have my apps organized ruins everything. I’ve whipped up a automator app that simply toggles the preference for you. Toggle it to turn the preference on, sort your apps and toggle it again to turn the preference off.

Tab Settings.app

I’d love to see what people do with it. Here’s the raw apple-script:
tell application "System Preferences" activate set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.expose" end tell


tell application "System Events"

	tell application process "System Preferences"

		--get the name of every checkbox of group 2 of window "Mission Control"

		click checkbox "Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use" of group 2 of window "Mission Control"

	end tell

end tell

tell application "System Preferences" to close every window

Here’s an updated Automator Service that doesn’t show the System Preferences pane when changing the Alt-Tab setting:

Start Automator
Choose “Service”
Select the “Run Shell Script” action

Copy and paste this into the workflow:
current_value=$(defaults read com.apple.dock mru-spaces) if [ $current_value = 1 ] then defaults write com.apple.dock mru-spaces -bool No /usr/local/bin/growlnotify -m "Automatically Rearrange is Turned Off" else defaults write com.apple.dock mru-spaces -bool Yes /usr/local/bin/growlnotify -m "Automatically Rearrange is Turned On" fi

killall Dock

Westell UltraLine Series3 Model 9100EM

sarvinc — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:49:42 +0000

So I just changed ISPs from Time Warner to Verizon and all I can say is “wow this router is a dog.” It’s probably the worst piece of junk I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen routers come from the Soviet Union with better software on them. The interface is a cludge, you’re constantly forced to click “yes I’m really sure I want to do xyz” constantly, and the clicky bits aren’t actually attached to anything!

If you’re like me and your banging your head against a wall trying to get port forwarding working… keep banging. I’ve managed to get port 22 to forward to a linux box but that’s about it.

Here’s a screen cast, and here’s a post about it.

Update:
Here’s a great post on bridging the Westell 9100EM
I’d love to hear if you’ve had more luck.

Backwoods Home Magazine

sarvinc — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:14:41 +0000

Backwoods Home Magazine is dedicated to the promotion of a more self-reliant living style. Everything from the ammo shortage to how to buy a used mobile home.

Full Screen Terminal Keyboard Command on a Mac

sarvinc — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:53:55 +0000

Purists wouldn’t call this full-screen but it’s close enough.

In System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts
Use the plus sign (+) to create a new shortcut. Use the drop down, labeled Application, to assign our new shortcut to the Terminal.
Menu Title will be “Zoom” no quotes.
Use any keyboard shortcut you’d like, I prefer command+f.
Restart the terminal.

Another keyboard shortcut I use with the Terminal is Select Previous Tab command + left arrow, and Select Next Tab command + right arrow.

Install rar and unrar on a Mac OX 10.5+

sarvinc — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:55:09 +0000

A great tutorial can be found here.

Perl grabbing output from a shell command

sarvinc — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:00:19 +0000

$result = `ls -l $file 2>&1`;

Synergy (running in the background on a Mac 10.5+)

sarvinc — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:51:35 +0000

Synergy is an application that allows you to share one keyboard and mouse between several different computers (Windows, Linux, and OS X). Unfortunately, running synergy in the background on a mac doesn’t work so well. Here’s one of the work-arounds I’ve found on the Internet.

This involves running the app through launchctl a replacement for rc.d/ scripts in linux.

Succesfully get synergy running (server and client) in the foreground
Download the appropriate file and change .txt to .plist . On the server use the file synergys.txt, on the client use the file synergyc.txt
In synergys.plist and synergyc.plist you’ll need to point to the correct location of your installed synergy program and .conf file.
In synergyc.plist you’ll need to change “server-host-name” to the correct server host name
Move this file to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
run the following two commands (change synergyc.plist to synergys.plist for the server)
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/synergyc.plist launchctl start com.synergyc

Synergy server plist