Installing NTFS-3G on your Mac OS X will render your Windows drives invisible from your "Startup Disk" preference pane. [1] They suggested disabling or uninstalling to bring the disappeared drive back. But I accidentally see a Windows partition in my VMWare Virtual Machine Library.

Wth with my sort?

$ ls -al | sort -n +4
sort: open failed: +4: No such file or directory

Convert plist binary to xml, back and forth.

plutil -convert xml1 some_file.plist

plutil -convert binary1 some_other_file.plist

To check, use file something.plist

Leopard Re Installation: Part 2

I reformat using the same filesystem my external hard drive uses. Then set UID to 1000 in the System Preferences > Accounts > Advanced Options (right click on username). After that chown whole home directory.

Leopard Re Installation: Backup & Restore Issue

I wanted to replace my OS X Server because of lack of Internet Sharing feature. So I do both Time Machine backup and manual backup before making a fresh OS X installation. These are the issue that I faced.

Restoring using Time Machine right after Leopard Installation is not as I expected. There will be folders like 'System (from old mac)', 'Applications (from old mac)'. For me, this is not neat.

Your OSX filesystem must have the same format as your Time Machine backup filesystem. I'm using HFS Journaled with Case Sensitive, but my external hard disk is using HFS Journaled NOT with Case Sensitive. I have to reformat either my OS X partition, or my external hard disk.

Restoring files from Time Machine is strict because of UID. My user uses 501 as UID but my last Server system was using 1000 as UID. So restoring could get complicated.

Right now I'm going to change my UID and reboot and see what will happen.

Phone Number Fix on iPhone (localization)

Problem is iPhone doesn't recognize callers. Although they exist in the address book, iPhone only show their number with extra country code prefix.

Replace PhoneNumberTemplates.plist
in the /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppSupport.framework

*Best to just backup/rename than to remove.

Custom Ringtones on iPhone

Convert audio file to use AAC codec and change the extension to m4r. Must not exceed 40 seconds.

Fix Youtube on iPhone

Unzip unlock.zip
to /private/var/root/Library/Lockdown and remove pair_records folder.

*Best to just backup/rename than to remove.

Fix Youtube

unzip unlock.zip to /private/var/root/Library/Lockdown
remove pair_records

Shell Auto-completion

I feel it is too late for me to realize that auto-completion using ESCAPE ESCAPE is actually came from a shell variable, $EDITOR

EDITOR=`which vi`; export EDITOR

Few servers gave me hard times on stty important function. So I:

echo "stty erase ^H
stty kill ^U
stty intr ^C
TERM=vt100
EDITOR=`which vi`
export TERM EDITOR" >> ~/.profile

Use putty to access vnc using ssh tunnel

This is to overcome firewall which filter connection on the application layer. In putty:

Hostname: ssh_server
X display location: localhost:0
Source port: 5901
Destination: vnc_server:5900

On vnc, connect to localhost:1

16:06 < codept> is there any tool to ...like ...present logs in the /var/log
...in more simpler format, let say httpd-access.log, a tool
that can analyze it and gives number of connection for each
unique source, ...that is just an idea
16:10 < geek00l> codept, we call it - awk, sed, sort, uniq, grep and fuck

Be Gentle With Your Keyboard

I just learn that, (after years of facing terminal), the more you minimize your typing mistakes, lesser the potential of screwing up or end up your work dissatisfied. It helps me thinking better too.

Think before you type. Think again before you press enter. Avoid typing too fast (because there are kids who think typing fast shows that they're good). Type slow not too slow, sit back and relax. Enjoy the cleanliness of your terminal output.

p/s: Yeah, I've worked with business critical environment... and I did screw up a few times :-p And this came to my mind while I was watching a 'really good' but not sys admin guy, typing neatly.

Start postgresql, create database and access it

Platform:FreeBSD

# su - pgsql
$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data (if only doesn't exist)
$ postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
$ createdb test
$ psql test

Install: using ports
Binary location: /usr/local/bin
Don't forget to modify rc.conf

httpd.conf | php module

beside LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache22/libphp5.so



Edit Aug 12 2008:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Diriwayatkan dari Abu Hurairah r.a., ia berkata: Rasulullah bersabda:“Wanita dinikahi karena empat perkara; karena hartanya, karena kedudukannya/ keturunannya, karena kecantikannya dan keranan agamanya. Maka, pilihlah yang baik agamanya niscaya engkau beruntung.” (Diriwayatkan oleh al-Bukhari (3/242), Muslim (2/1086), Abu Dawud (2047), an—Nasaa’i (6/6 8) dan Ibnu Majah (1858))

Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter

[bambino@bambino ~]$ sudo apachectl start
[Mon Jul 21 14:42:39 2008] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter
[bambino@bambino ~]$ sudo kldload accf_http
[bambino@bambino ~]$ sudo apachectl restart
[bambino@bambino ~]$

After 7 years of no telephone line...

FUCK Telekom.

streamyx settings for ADSL wireless router

1. enter correct username and password
   
2. vpi : 0 (zaro or 8 if you want)
3. vci : 35

using command line mail

Simply mail to recipient,

$ mail RECIPIENT

Enter subject, press enter, and type mail content. Ctrl + D to finish.

To include content from a text file, for example, msg.txt, simply enter ~r ./msg.txt at the first line of the mail content.

$ mail RECIPIENT -c CCPERSON

To list mail headers in inbox

$ mail -H

To list mail saved msg headers in mailbox (~/mbox)

$ mail -F

Inside mail console (don't really know what to call exactly), you can use h to list again mail headers, and enter any number to read specific mail.