When working at multiple computers during the day there are a few methods of syncing your work. Using something like unison to share the actual code, or just work on the computer remotely through ssh. Since one of my current clients has a few vagrant boxes which are less than trivial to set up and […]
Easily whitelisting/adding self-signed SSL certificates to Chrome on OS X
Since I regularly work on servers with self-signed certificates it’s been quite the hassle to whitelist them properly under OS X. Why Chrome doesn’t use a system comparable to Firefox is beyond me, but this script makes it fairly manageable. Do note that the certificate still needs to be valid in terms of hostname and […]
Installing Hackintosh on an ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE with an NVIDIA GTX 970
Step 1: Creating a bootable USB stick Create a USB installer using Unibeast, the tutorial at Tonymaxc86 should do the trick. Follow steps 1, 2 and 3. Step 2: Modify the setup using Multibeast Download Multibeast from Tonymacx86 and use the following config: [xml]MultiBeast Configuration – 2015-02-09 04:53:52 —————————————————————– Quick Start > DSDT Free Drivers […]
Modifying Time Machine backups
The Apple Time Machine service makes fairly nice backups using hard links and everything, but if you need to somehow modify the backups yourself to remove some obsolete files (which take up a lot of diskspace for example) you’re pretty much out of luck the normal way. Removing the ACL’s and modifying the access rights […]
Creating a ZFS pool in a Sparseimage or DMG on OS X
Since I see regular corruption and filesystem errors on my HFS+ partitions it seemed time to give ZFS on OS X a try. Since there are several ZFS implementations for OS X available you can choose the one you feel most confident that will work. Regardless… here is the script I wrote to automate the […]
Preventing OS X from “hibernating” while charging
Although the “deep sleep” feature of OS X can be useful at times to save some battery power, if you’re like me you will probably use your laptop within a few hours anyhow. Sometimes you will have enough with the hour that Apple gives you before you have to wait a minute for it to […]
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