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.)

[PearPC and Mac OS X Installation via gizmodo]

• if you have subversion installed in a non-standard location you can set the path like so:

  defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCSubversionToolPath /usr/local/bin/svn
  

• from: http://www.pycs.net/bbum/2004/2/28/

  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?

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