Check Point VPN on Mac OS X
I've given up on SecureClient for Mac OS X, currently using Leopard and found that IPSecuritas is a much better replacement. CPU usage when idle is insignificant compared to the 90%+ used by the Check...
View ArticleSoftware List May '09
Here is the list of programs or utilities that I currently use to get things done. Many of them are open source and freewares, the ones that are not are marked with an asterisk.The every day stuff:OS:...
View ArticleGWT+Eclipse: NoSuchMethodError
If you get this error message while compiling a GWT module in Eclipse, go to the project Build Path and change the Order/Export tab to have the GWT-SDK module at the...
View ArticleDelete Flash9f.ocx - Access is denied
After installing Windows 7 on an XP partition I couldn't completely get rid of the Windows.old folder. The culprits were a few ocx and dll files left with strange permissions by Adobe Flash and...
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How to disable GZIP compression in Firefox
Not sure this is the only/best way but I used the following steps to disable gzip compression in Firefox 3.0:Type about:config in the URL bar (Accept the disclaimer)Type encoding in the filter field...
View ArticleGWT disable text selection in an HTMLTable
While modifying FlexTable to handle cell selection It took me a while to figure out how to disable the native text selection behavior of the browsers on 'SHIFT+Click' events. Turns out this native...
View ArticleHow to mount an LVM partition
This details the commands I had to run to mount a CentOS 5.1 main disk into another machine. Because of LVM using mount on standard scsi partitions is not enough.Assuming main physical disk:...
View ArticleDefault root password on iPhone 3.0
Just installed SSH, was able to login with:- root / alpine- mobile / alpineYou can change the default passwords if logged in via SSH by using the 'passwd' command for both accounts.
View ArticleCydia size mismatch error
While installing SBSettings or other packages in Cydia it kept aborting the installation with the error "Size mismatch error" and an "Okay" button was the only option.After some googling I found out it...
View ArticleSort installed RPMs by size
Keep forgetting this one, to list all RPM packages installed on a Linux (Red Hat / CentOS) machine sorted from the largest to the smallest in size:rpm -qa --queryformat '%{size} %{name}\n' | sort -rn |...
View ArticleFix Juniper Network Connect on Snow Leopard
If you are unable to connect your corporate Juniper SSL VPN with Network Connect after an upgrade to Snow Leopard, enter the commands below in a Terminal window:sudo chmod 755...
View ArticleCaveats of Snow Leopard's Exchange 2007 Integration
My Company recently switched to Microsoft BPOS which allowed me to use the native Exchange 2007 support in Snow Leopard. I'm documenting below the various caveats I've encountered while using Mail.app...
View ArticleMac Outlook 2011: Keyboard shortcut to quickly file messages
Trying a switch to Outlook 2011 for Mac I needed a keyboard shortcut to quickly move selected email messages to specific folders. I edited some of the default AppleScripts which appear in Outlook's...
View ArticleFix VNC Screen Sharing after upgrade to OS X Lion
Update: Mountain Lion seems to have fixed all issues I've had connection to the Mac from a Windows VNC client. The solution below has only worked intermittently for me.After upgrading my MacBookPro to...
View ArticleMacBook Jerky Bluetooth Mouse and Wifi
Noticed today that my bluetooth mouse connected to my MacBook Pro gets nearly unusable when doing large file transfer to a nearby computer, the cursor is jerky and skips large parts of the hand...
View ArticleFix iPhone 4 Home Button by rubbing it with alcohol
Incredibly this repair method has worked on two iPhones I own that had issues with their home button for over a year. One was not registering clicks at all for a while and while it's not 100% fixed it...
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Remove iPad grey keyboard bar
If like me you are annoyed by the amount of space taken by the ‘Shortcut’ bar presented above the keyboard, you can make it go away by turning off Shortcuts under Settings > General > Shortcuts....
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