OS Specific Hints
Wed, 30/09/2009 - 11:33am — Jim
- Apt-get for mac is known as MacPorts, very nice for getting linux'y stuff.
- You can drag network shares to the desktop to create a shortcut for later on.
- Mounting NTFS drives as read/write. Warning this can corrupt your drive. There are instructions Here at insaelymac.com. You may also want iMountit which is a nice app that can remount a ntfs drive as read/write by dragging the drive onto the app.
- Some command line applications that are on the Mac can be different to their linux counter-parts. In my case "ld" didn't work the same. Virtual Box is a free virtual machine application. I use this with an Ubuntu install for my linux needs. Also there is a page at My Debian about setting up Virtual box so you can ssh into that machine
- There is a very nice OS X screenshot application that puts each application window on a different layer so you can move them around or delete them before saving the image. Very nice. http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/
- To connect to a mac fileshare from Windows Vista connect to
//macipaddress. When asked for username and password the username must be in the form ofmacipaddress/macshortusername
- To connect to a mac fileshare from Windows Vista see this hint
- To hide files that start with a '.' (ie, Mac and linux hidden files) use
attrib +s +h filename. +s for system and +h for hidden. - When using a wireless connection on Vista there is lag every 60 seconds while Vista rescans for close networks. During this scan there is no traffic which is bad for games. To fix this go to: http://www.martin-majowski.de/wlanoptimizer/
- Passwordless ssh, originally from translucentcode.
- local$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
- local$ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remote
- local$ ssh username@remote
- remote$ cat ~/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
- remote$ chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
- Bootchart is a debian package which will log the boot procedure of your computer. Great for trying to optimize it.
