10.4: Set ‘Location’ automatically via a script: “If you want to set your Mac OS X Location automatically (based on Airport name (SSID) or something else), have a look at this script and launchd item.
(Via macosxhints.)
I’m sure that you’d be breaking hundreds of license agreements and the like to do it, but someone has figured out how to install Mac OSX onto an Xbox and been kind enough to post instructions. It’s no small feat, though, involving a mod-chipped Xbox, image files of OSX, installation of the Pear PC emulator, and a couple of dozen hours to go through the entire install process. When you’re done, though, you’ll have one of the slowest, least-useful OSX boxes money can buy!
here is a couple of tips for getting subversion and Xcode working together.
defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCSubversionToolPath /usr/local/bin/svn
Since the pbxuser file tracks window positions, file scroll positions, and other information that tends to change often, the differences between any two revisions of the pbxuser file tends to be large. In the context of automatic change notification emails, this tends to be really annoying in that it is this huge chunk of completely irrelevant noise that obscures the useful bits within the notification email. Given that pbxuser is XML, the changes between two revisions aren’t really readable in diff form anyway. Easy fix: tell Subversion that the file is binary. This is simply a matter of setting the mime-type appropriately.cd *.xcode svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream *.pbxuser svn commit -m 'Set mime-type of pbxuser to application/octet-stream to binary.'
iTunes makes synching my music collection extremely easy. But what about my files? I don’t want to have to drag all my stuff over manually - that’s a pain in the ass, and I’m likely to forget the various hidden “.something” config files and folders so often used by *NIX software. There are numerous backup utilities available for OS X, but which one is the right tool for this job?
Do you ever look back through your vacation photos and wonder where all of the photos were taken? What if there was a way to have all those images automatically show up as pins on a map or an aerial photograph? It may seem too good to be true, but it can be done. No mirrors or smoke; it’s just making use of existing GPS technology.
csteinle writes “Looks like the major labels are getting their own way again. The New York Post reports that the price per track may be going up to $1.25, … [Slashdot]