I come from a heavy Gentoo background in GNU/Linux land, so on OS X, I prefer Prefix Portage. YMMV, but I think it’s a great environment. I mainly use it to install the few extra UNIX utilities that don’t ship with OS X.
Wanting to get spell checking working, I read the Emacs Wiki, [...]
I was having some issues trying out the rubyosa gem, and found this useful japanese blog.
If you see an error like the following:
└──> rdoc-osa –name Adium
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rubyosa-0.4.0/lib/rbosa.rb:530: [BUG] Bus Error
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03) [universal-darwin9.0]
Abort trap
… when you are attempting to generate documentation, then you need to install an older version of the libxml-ruby gem, and modify rubyosa [...]
First, I’m glad Apple began support of multiple workspaces with the release of Leopard last year. Workspaces was a feature that was truly lacking from an otherwise feature-rich user interface in OS X.
Having spent a long time with GNU/Linux — long enough for it to shape my formative computer development years in high school [...]
If you’re running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and you see a somewhat frightening and terse error message that says “Your wireless network has been compromised“, then you’ve probably entered into a world of annoyance. If you’re in the situation I was, this message begins to pop-up every few minutes. Every time it [...]
On pages 29-30 of “Programming Erlang” by Joe Armstrong, the author goes over character strings. Erlang uses Latin-1 as it’s character set. At first, Terminal.app wasn’t showing the non-US / ASCII characters.
There’s a two-step process to solve this:
Terminal->Window Settings…->Display->”Character Set Encoding” set to “Western (ISO Latin 1)”
Set the environment variable LC_ALL to “en_US” [...]
UPDATE: everyone at my workplace knows that I love to iPhone-hate, but I would just like to compare the annoying but simple PAN tethering steps for OSX to Dash with the steps described here. Suffice to say, you need to hack the iPhone’s OS — a terrible only-option, in my opinion, but a well [...]
I found this post containing a script that svn checkouts a fairly functional erlang TextMate bundle. Neat-o!
I edited the bundle to allow it to update itself, using a slightly modified form of the original script.
Bundles->Bundle Editor->Show Bundle Editor
Click on the menu entry text “erlang”
Drag a new separator to the bottom of the erlang bundle [...]
Somehow, my MBP’s install is messed up, and the built-in iSight camera cannot be read from in video mode — but yet, still pictures work. I discovered this, as I could not get QuickTime Broadcaster’s preview view to show any video (or for it to broadcast). Then, I discovered that iChat cannot initiate [...]
Lately, I’ve been using OSX as my primary operating system, and I’m taking this chance to test posting from TextMate to Wordpress.
Attempting to install postgres via Darwin Ports forced me, for the first time to try to utilize variants. From what I understand, variants are somewhat like USE flags in Gentoo, but beyond that, I don’t know much.
The default postgres version in port is still 7, but postgresql8 is also in port, and currently is [...]