Tag: Apple

  • Compile wget on Mac OS X

    There’s a precompiled wget available on the net, but it’s not automatically accepting StartSSL’s certificates. And as it seems, there’s a wget update available that did. This is what I had to do to compile it on my Macbook Pro; Or you’ll get this error: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables PATH=/Developer/usr/bin/:$PATH tar xvzf…

  • QQ

    If only it were cheaper 🙁 And I didn’t even pick the SSD 🙁 Update: With my education discount… Not much better 🙁

  • OpenVPN Linux + Mac howto

    A short howto, as I was unable to find any clear ones on the net. I’m using Mac OS X (Leopard) as client, and a Gentoo server as server/host. I both tried Viscosity and Tunnelblick on my Mac as OpenVPN software, and Viscosity is probably somewhat easier to configure (using the GUI), it was shareware.…

  • New Mac

    From Twitter.

  • wget for Mac OS X

    The missing tool in Mac OS X is most likely wget. Here’s a (universal) port. Read the readme for installation howto. 🙂

  • WoW:WotLK 3.0.1 installers

    Here’s a list of all World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King installers: English: Win – Mac French: Win – Mac German: Win – Mac Spanish: Win – Mac The download is 2.04Gb (on a Mac), I haven’t started the download on a Windows yet. And yes, you will still need a beta invitation…

  • Namely + hiding its icon

    I recently started to use Namely but having its icon in my dock was quite annoying (like to keep my dock clean). Namely is an app that let’s you launch any application by typing in a few letters of that program’s name. Just type in a key combination ([Apple]+E here), and Namely’s window pop ups.…

  • Hide your Printer icon in Mac OS X.5

    I recently came upon this post; enjoy it. 😉 Makes life just that bit easier!

  • Hamachi(X) on Leopard

    When playing with KisMAC, I noticed something weird in my /var/log/system.log; $date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd$pid) posix_spawnp(“/usr/sbin/tuncfg”, …): No such file or directory $date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd$pid) Exited with exit code: 1 $date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds tun is (trying) to restart every 10 (!) seconds. I tried updating Hamachi‘s tun/tap drivers, without…