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TermKit | MetaFilter
MetaFilter's commenters do a very good job of pointing out why TermKit, much as it's pretty, is actually a pretty bad idea.
unix  terminal  design  philosophy  critisism  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
TidBITS Macs & Mac OS X: Snow Leopard Snubs Document Creator Codes
"an application in Snow Leopard cannot use a creator code attached to a document to bind that document to itself." Good coverage here of what happened and workarounds.
apple  macosx  unix  finder  hfs  10.6  development  via:@siracusa 
september 2009 by blech
Make Ubuntu A Perfect File Server | Matthias Kretschmann
I've already got Netatalk running on my funky Debian/Ubuntu hybrid home server but there are some useful tips here (usedot, avahi and custom icons, in particular).
linux  unix  ubuntu  afp  macosx  rendezvous  networking  via:ffg 
august 2008 by blech
Leopard finally supporting ssh-agent at login
When I finally upgrade, I should be able to junk SSHKeychain. Which is good, because it often takes a gig of VM for no apparent reason.
macosx  ssh  unix  security 
october 2007 by blech
automatically reconnect to screen
I'd need to change screen -RR (two capitals?) to -Ux, and also distinguish if I've got multiple screens (at home, anyway) but this could be handy.
unix  linux  shell  software  tips 
october 2007 by blech
Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Technology - UNIX
If Apple was serious about JavaScript, wouldn't there be an implementation of Scripting Bridge? (with apologies to Tom, who mentioned the idea on #2lmc) (and I really should check out Drosera)
apple  cocoa  scripting  framework  unix  javascript 
july 2007 by blech
Unixjunkie Blog: User 99, Unknown
actually more like "anyone" than "unknown", but worth knowing about. The third comment is interesting.
macosx  filesystem  permissions  unix 
march 2007 by blech
use.perl.org - petdance's journal - Top 10 reasons to use ack
ack is a grep enhancement for code, and one that I should really install everywhere and get into the hang of using, because it looks very useful
perl  unix  tools  development  grep 
december 2006 by blech
Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server: How to mount a volume as read-only
mount invocation for readonly hfs on Mac OS X. Very similar to what I use on Linux for my external firewire HDs (`mount -t hfsplus -r /dev/sda3 /mnt/epidermis/`)
macosx  unix  howto 
october 2006 by blech
Power Shell Usage: Bash Tips & Tricks
Including fixing bash history from multiple shells, incremental searching, and so on. Old, but good.
cli  development  linux  osx  shell  unix  bash 
february 2006 by blech
Matthew Thomas » My first 48 hours enduring Ubuntu 5.04
Detailed, scathing, amusing and a wonderful last paragraph
unix  ubuntu  usability 
april 2005 by blech

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