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How to open a Mac OS X sparsebundle when it shows up as a regular folder

What do you do if you have, say, an encrypted sparsebundle and some day you try to open it and you discover it shows up as a plain folder in the Finder instead as a bundle icon? Double clicking will just open the folder and show you the bands that mak…...

June 29, 2009 · 2 min · François Planque

How to display Network Shares as Icons on Mac OS X desktop

We had them before, but suddenly in Mac OS X 10.5 they disappeared! However, whenever I want to grab something on the network, my intuitive reflex is to look for the network drive icon on the desktop! :'(I had to dig around quite a while to find teh se…...

June 20, 2009 · 2 min · François Planque

How to edit your keyboard layout on Mac OS X

One thing I hate about US keyboards is that they don't let me type my French special characters by any memorable strecth -- what's the dead key for the cedilla again? (ç)One thing I hate about French keytboards is that they have all the punctuation key…...

June 19, 2009 · 3 min · François Planque

How to install b2evolution on Mac OS X in 5 minutes from scratch

Tested with MAMP 1.7.2, b2evolution 3.2 and Mac OS X 10.5.7 :Download and install MAMP (Free) into the Applications folderStart MAMP and make sure you get the MAMP start pageDownload b2evolution and unzip it into /Applications/MAMP/htdocsPoint…...

May 28, 2009 · 3 min · François Planque

How to fix apt-get missing keys (Debian)

Lately, my Debian servers have been bugging me with stuff like this everytime I tried to apt-get update:W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:XYZ123W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems...

May 28, 2009 · 2 min · François Planque

How to get AC-3 5.1 surround sound on your Mac

So your hooked up your Mac to your 5.1 receiver and all you get is lousy stereo? Worry no more, decent AC-3 support is finally available for Mac OSX! In my case I have an Intel Mac Mini from 2006 hooked up to a Denon AVR-3801 via a fiber optic S/PDIF…...

March 11, 2009 · 16 min · François Planque

How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

If your Page Up/Down and Home/End of line keys don't seem to work in Mac OS X Terminal, here's how to fix them!...

December 21, 2008 · 11 min · François Planque

How to use SSH private keys on Mac OS X

First cool thing that everybody knows already: Mac OSX is based on Unix so you get ssh out of the box. Second cool thing you may not know: OS X 10.5 actually also comes with an ssh key agent (ssh-agent). That means that, without any additional softwar…...

December 21, 2008 · 3 min · François Planque

How to manage MySQL binary log space (Debian)

So it turns out that what is filling up my root partition is my MySQL binary logs.A collection of fat files in /var/log/mysql ...So I had several options: Move the logs to a different partition Increase the size of the root partition D…...

October 15, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque

Why is my Linux root partition full?

Oh my... nothing puts a server down on its knees more than a root partition with 0% free space. Oh well, ok, maybe being dugg beats it. But still, when you have a full partition, you're in trouble... First thing is to find what is using that much spac…...

October 15, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque