I just got a new MacBook Pro from my current employer and since I got it without an SSD I bought the Intel 510 250GB and installed it. Everything worked smoothly after the first boot. However, as @denis2342 pointed out, there are a few extra steps to make it run at full speed and performance. […]
For years I’ve been searching for a keyboard shortcut that would instantly lock my screen / desktop. I’ve seen this on Linux window managers and something like this probably exists on every major operating system. My current workaround was to open Keychain.app, enable the menu bar icon in the preferences and click each time on […]
Recently I encountered a file which mostly contained UTF-8 characters. I could read the file and even throw it at Nokogiri and there was no problem. When I wanted to preprocess the content of the file with gsub ruby raised this Exception: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) Now what to do? There aren’t many […]
Today the first SparkleShare beta for mac came out. SparkleShare is somehow very similar to dropbox but instead of being bound to one company, SparkleShare is based on git and therefor allows hosting your repositories on your own servers. I’ve been waiting for this release for because one of my colleagues is already using it […]
Currently I’m writing a couple of munin plugins at work and for certain components I need to parse log files to get out the numbers so munin can draw its graphs. My particular task is to parse a Pound log file and generate several custom graphs out of it and so the examples in this […]