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Have Google Chrome remember an SSL certificate on Mac OSX 28 Feb 2012 | 07:38 am
You access https sites. Chrome, in its security genius, warns you. Every. Single. Time. No more. You can make it remember that you trust a certificate. When on a secure site, click the warning icon ...
Fix slow network file transfers across Mac OSX Lion 10 Oct 2011 | 01:54 pm
Suddenly, after the upgrade from Snow Leopard to the much vaunted OSX Lion, my wireless transfers over a home LAN network became sluggish. It was taking a few *minutes* to transfer a simple file. App...
Making Java work in browsers on Mac OSX Lion 29 Jul 2011 | 10:02 pm
So I updated to OSX Lion 10.7. Very cool, especially with the easy gestures. Biggest problem: my bank website, which uses Java applets for secure logins, stopped working. In the area where the login ...
Speed up OSX Terminal with one command 15 May 2011 | 09:23 pm
When you start up Terminal, does it take over 10 seconds or so before the prompt appears? Turns out the Terminal.app stores logs of previous sessions and over time this grows. Even apps like MainMenu...
Increase size of /tmp folder on CentOS Linux under Cpanel 30 Apr 2011 | 09:28 pm
Any dedicated server hosting some websites that get meaningful traffic will quickly ourgrow Cpanel's default /tmp folder size of 512MB. It houses PHP session files, temporary file uploads, your databa...
Create ringtones for iPhone on Mac OSX (for free) 12 Dec 2009 | 06:59 am
A simple app ought to do it. Download iRinger. It used to be a Windows app, but is now available for Mac OSX! A very intuitive application. Select a song (mp3 for example), it clips it and shows you...
Finding non-UTF8 values in PostgreSQL 23 Jul 2009 | 01:56 pm
This regexp worked for me. Or, if you have iconv on your system, as most UNIX variants do, you can pg_dumpall a database and run the following command on it: Then take a plain text pg_dump of the da...
KeepVid: saving videos from Youtube or Vimeo, from anywhere 2 Feb 2009 | 05:54 pm
If you use Firefox (and if not, what are you waiting for?) you are familiar with useful extensions such as Video Downloader, which allow you to save local copies of the videos you watch on websites su...
Resize a column in a PostgreSQL table without changing data 13 Jan 2009 | 06:49 pm
You use PostgreSQL. You find that a column you have in a table is of a smaller length than you now wish. In my case, this was a varchar(20) that I now wished to make varchar(35). Nothing else. I just ...
Recovering Bad Hard Disks (CRC on Windows, Error –36 on Mac OSX) 5 Oct 2008 | 02:58 pm
So you've been visited by the much dreaded CRC — Cyclical Redundancy Check error, most likely encountered while copying files between hard disks. On Mac OSX, this will usually appear as some cryptic p...
