I finally tackled the (hopefully) last bit of my Snow Leopard upgrade today: getting Ruby (and Rails) ready to go. I’m working on an information visualization project and am using Ruby to write the app. Mike Gunderloy at A Fresh Cup has a great step by step guide (I started at step 19 since...
Read more →Jeremy Whitlock has a great blog post about how to set up your OS X-based Subversion server. His post includes instructions for Apache configs, but not for svn+ssh. When you type svn+ssh://user@host/repos you’ll likely get an error such as svn: Expected FS format '2'; found format '4' which means that you’re repository was created...
Read more →Updated 6/23/2010 As a commenter points out, Syphone doesn’t work with current or recent iPhone OS. Don’t waste your time. Updated 2/21/2009 Syphone is a Mac freeware application that allows you to archive your iPhone SMS messages to your Mac hard drive. Here’s a screenshot from my messages with Google Local: If you’re using...
Read more →Regular readers know I’ve had a rough time with Apple hardware lately. In fact, I forgot that I also had to have my 4th generation iPod replaced because the middle button stopped working. So, that means that only my iPod Shuffle has functioned as promised and not required service. Anyway, I’m intrigued by Windows...
Read more →A couple of commenters asked why I use the ChronoSync + SuperDuper! combination instead of just Time Machine. The main reason? Time Machine uses too many resources. It’s also slow. For awhile I avoided it because I wasn’t sure how to make a bootable backup, but Mac OS X hints has instructions. I don’t...
Read more →See, here’s a TeX tip already. I have a somewhat strange filing system on my computer. It’s marked by a number of behaviors that don’t work smoothly with TeX – storing images in their own folder, keeping one giant references file instead of different ones for each paper, putting the main tex file in...
Read more →I’ve switched many of my writing tasks to TeX, and it’s time I talked about that decision. I wrote a paper for a class last term in TeX, and I think that was the official beginning. Well, I guess I’d tried and failed to write a paper in TeX before, so my paper for...
Read more →Lifehacker comes through again with something fun. This time, it’s a software Easter Egg – emacs Therapist! To use the emacs Therapist (Mac OS X only), open Terminal, type emacs, hit return, hit Escape, then type xdoctor. You get Eliza. Ha! That can kill some time. If you’re looking for other ways to kill...
Read more →Sigh. I use Parallels and Boot Camp because I like having options. Unfortunately, wanting options means that my life is quite complicated. Today’s problem: swap out the failing hard drive in my MacBook for a new one without losing any of my Mac OS or Windows XP data. Well, it’s actually this month’s problem,...
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