Generic articles to MacOSX related topics.
Introduction I’m using rsync to backup my data to an external USB disk. I keep forgetting to do it, so automation is what I need. This procedure doesn’t just apply to rsnapshot, it should work with any backup method that…
Assuming you have already installed postgresql on your machine, this tutorial shows you how to hook it up to NeoOffice. For installing postgresql the author has used gentoo-prefix using the command `emerge postgresql`. The following site has also instructions on…
While dealing with the opensource tool using assembly for some tasks, I encountered the following error messages: Unknown pseudo-op: .balign Unknown pseudo-op: .hidden Unknown pseudo-op: .type They seem all come from the fact that my assembler is pretty old. I’m…
I had been struggling the whole week with a phenomena I could not nail down. I had an include file that was included as per preprocessor output. However not any effect from the included file could be seen, not even…
Lots of stuff in a Mac is stored in property list files with the .plist extension on a Mac. Accessing them with Unix tools is possible and besides the usual C/C++/ObjC options there’s a perl interface to the necessary functionality…
A first word for the impatient: I’m not aware of a way to have a writable ext2fs filesystem on MacOSX for production use. Two options I came over to achieve it: A sourceforge project Mac OS X Ext2 Filesystem Google’s…