If you deal with customers and need to collect information about their environment, you need to enter "man sysdiagnose" into a Terminal.

Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. It requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back.

Xslimmer not only frees space wasted by unused code, it can even increase your Mac's performance. Some of our users have reported applications loading in almost half the time, because OS X does not need to analyze Xslimmed applications in search for the most suitable version of the code.

Every Mac user has noticed it; over time, your system slows down. This is particularly true in these days of constant security updates, as replacing operating system components not only increases file fragmentation, but also creates a more insidious problem—over time, the operating system itself ends up scattered all over your disk. iDefrag solves these problems and more, by defragmenting and optimizing your Mac’s filesystem.

Stitcho is a new desktop notification widget for websites, with support for Windows and Mac.

If like me you have installed a lot of Adobe AIR apps on your Ubuntu machine and want to remove a few, it's not as easy as using apt. Below is a small guide to removing AIR apps using the command line.

Uitleg hoe je de default installatie locatie van programma's in XP kunt aanpassen in het register van Windows.

It’s horribly frustrating changing entries in fstab just because the card reader wasn’t plugged in when the computer booted into Ubuntu Linux That all changed when I assigned labels to each drive. Now fstab entries reference those labels instead of devices!

"Q. Is it possible to install Ubuntu Linux on my Windows XP computer so I can have both systems on one machine — without having to reinstall Windows?" - WTF, the NY Times is answering questions abotu Ubuntu?

Personal notes on building a MythTV system.