- How to start sshd on OS X - To start sshd on OS X (on Leopard on a Mac Mini in my case, though I doubt it makes a difference): System Preferences -> Internet & Wireless section -> Sharing icon -> tick Remote Login. You should now be able to ssh and scp to the compu...
- Clearing "other data" on iPhone or iPad - If your iPhone or iPad runs out of disk space, chances are that a lot of it will be identified as “other” data. This category is useless, in that it tells you nothing about what the data is, nor is there any capability of clearing it. You could try cl...
- Apple keyboard - Notes about the keys necessary to get certain characters or behaviour on Apple’s mini keyboard. General Character/action Key strokes ~ Alt-n # Alt-3 Page up/down ...
- OS X home directory - It seems that OS X (Snow Leopard) has a /home directory that is mounted but unused. You can not delete it: rm: home: Resource is busy Just making note of the fact, because it really threw me when I wrote a script and accidentally wrote ‘home’ inst...
- OS X ethernet setup - OS X Leopard on mac mini wouldn’t connect via ethernet, with “cable unplugged” message (or similar). Solution… Router side, I assigned an IP to the mac address via static DHCP. In mini network settings, advanced section, changed to manual instead...
- MAMP setup - MAMP is a web server stack for Mac. These note give step by step instructions on how to set up a site on MAMP. We’ll call the site “testsite”. It will be configured as a “virtual host”, as this approach will allow you to easily run multiple sites loca...
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