Mac

My play/pause button mysteriously stopped working in iTunes and VLC mysteriously this week on my laptop.

This post has been a bit delayed, but I want to follow up on the post I wrote last month about moving from OS X to Linux at work.

The latest versions of virt-manager don’t release the mouse pointer when you’re doing X forwarding to a machine running OS X.

I’ve been a big fan of the GPGTools suite for Mac for quite a while but I discovered some neat features when right-clicking on a file in Finder today.

Although I’ve been exclusively using a Mac for everything but servers since about 2008, I found myself considering a move back to Linux on the desktop after seeing how some people were using it at LinuxCon.

If you install vpnc via MacPorts on OS X, you’ll find that you have no openssl support after it’s built:

I’m a big fan of Linux tools which allow you to monitor things in great detail.

Anyone who has used a 3G ExpressCard or USB stick knows how handy they can be when you need internet access away from home (and away from Wi-Fi).

I added a DisplayLink USB to DVI adapter to my MacBook Pro a while back and it occasionally has some issues where it won’t start the display after connecting the USB cable.

I’ve floated back and forth between graphical IRC clients and terminal-based clients for a long time.

My daily work involves working with a large number of servers and one of my frustrations with Firefox is that it’s not possible to select an entire IP address with a double click with the default settings.

My synergy setup at work is relatively simple.

One of my favorite (and most used) applications on any Linux machine is screen.

Edit: After further research, I found that this fix only adjusts the speed at which your mouse moves.

Running OS X 10.

Mac users feel a little left out when it comes to VMWare Server clients.

I know I usually talk about Linux server related topics on this blog, but I’m pretty proud of what I’ve figured out this morning on my Mac.