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Mount OS X share on Windows 7

marksy — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:13:25 +0000

Windows in general is a pain in the bum. I’ve had to install it on my media PC for the TV as Netflix only support PC/Mac – not Linux.

However when configuring Windows I found I couldn’t access my Mac. I restarted everything including the router. Nothing. It kept asking for my username & password (the account that has access on the Mac). I then did a quick search and found this piece of information:

You have to manually disable security polices to connect to LAN based NTLM. Go to Local Security Policy; find Network security: LAN Manager Authentication and set it to “Send LM & LTLM Responses”. Find Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP (may be 2 of them) and set it to “no minimum”

Without knowing this I would probably be in the corner, crying and gorging on a whole thing of candy beans.

Digital Color Meter OS X.7 Lion [sucks]

marksy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:58:45 +0000

For what it’s worth, Apple have stripped back DCM utility in their new OS. WTF!? I used that all the time, now I can’t copy colour, hold colour or pick in HEX?!

A chap called Matt Patenaude has made a small app called Colors which takes care of all the crap Apple failed to care about. Thanks Matt.

Advertising in OS’s

marksy — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:27:11 +0000

Would you or better yet, could you use an operating system that has adverts? Google are working on their web-based OS which would probably have the usual targeted adverts based on either surrounding content or user profile data.

Mac OS would never have adverts. They even expressed their dislike for adverts in the latest WWDC, saying they’d never include it in the iCloud storage system.

Windows however, have been using it for sometime in their IM software, MSN Messenger. But why do this?! Why would you have pulsing and distracting adverts – and a fucking splash screen full of adverts when you sign in? No other IM software I know of does this. In fact – no software I know of (excluding mobile applications) use adware.

Is this the future? Is this where we’re heading? Considering the current state of free apps on Android Marketplace and App Store mostly have adverts in them. Why shouldn’t free software on your OS contain adverts?

Why? Because it’s just not done. Don’t ever do this.

Speed up your page serving with ‘mod_pagespeed’

marksy — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:38:13 +0000

Google announced (a while ago) a module to Apache 2.2, ‘mod_pagespeed’ will automatically optimise webpages, serving up content faster to your consumers.

mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this by rewriting the resources using filters that implement web performance best practices. Webmasters and web developers can use mod_pagespeed to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content with the Apache HTTP Server.

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html

Throttle bandwidth in OS X

marksy — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:46:00 +0000

Below is how to throttle your network bandwidth on OS X

Create a pipe that restricts data throughput:
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 15KByte/s

Attach the pipe to http port (80)
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

Done. The http port should now be limited.

To remove this pipe;
sudo ipfw delete 1

Hakim Experiments (html5/js)

marksy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:35:45 +0000

This guy has created an amazing audio tool out of javascript and html5.

Something I’m sure you could waste hours and hours on. Would be good to pipe it through some effects processing though.

link

jQuery plugin for TextMate

marksy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:18:51 +0000

I’ve found this really handy jQuery plugin for TextMate.

It’s originally written by kswedberg on github, but i’ve compiled it and zipped it for ease of use.

Mac OSX 10.6 ignore trackpad when mouse present

marksy — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:16:16 +0000

When you plug in a mouse to a Macbook/Pro/Air sometimes you want to ignore the trackpad because, well, you have an external mouse and don’t want to flick around with the trackpad. Apple have changed this from being in either … Continue reading →

Google having trouble with Safari 5 (malwaring?)

marksy — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:25:40 +0000

Recently I’ve been seeing some weird things happening with Safari & Google. Lately, gMaps is very slow and takes up a lot of process. Streetview is horrible in Safari 5. gAnalytics doesn’t display content correctly.

I’ve been using Chrome for each thing i think is dodgy and each time I’ve been correct.

Now I don’t think it’s to do with Webkit, i think it’s to do with the JS rendering system. Both Chrome and Safari use completely different JS renderers however share the same markup renderer.

Reload button for Safari

marksy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:57:11 +0000

With extensions for Safari 5 finally being enabled, developers are starting to produce some good stuff.

One thing (which Apple has never had) is a separate reload button. I dislike buttons which have two functions such as reload/stop. If you click ‘stop’ just as its loaded, and changes it’s state to ‘reload’, thus loading it again. Grrr annoying. Happens too many times.

You’ll need to enable extensions, then check out http://siracusafamily.org/safari/extensions/