I use iChat, Adium and Skype all at the same time. I was looking for a quick way to change the status of all three of them with one fell swoop. Looking at what other people had written I came across a good example at Jason Kenison’s blog. He had implemented a method whereby you …
Category Archives: mac
Using your MacBookPro to PXEBoot OpenBSD
This post does not show a successful outcome in case that’s what you where hoping for. I was trying to get OpenBSD bootstrapped using the PXEBoot NIC in a server. I decided to use my Mac which has tftp and bootpd installed. This post is quite in depth and technical so if you are game …
Fix for loud clicking MacBookPro trackpad
I love the new MacBookPro, but the trackpad clicks so loud that people on public transport stare at me. I’m not the only one with the issue. An enterprising user on the Apple Discussion forums remembers a similar problem and fix for the trackpad from earlier MacBook models. The fix in this case involves removing …
Switching to multi-line mode using Textmate Regex
So you have a pattern you want to match across multiple lines, and you have a regular expression that matches it. You will probably be used to doing this in perl like this: /some.+?stuff/s or using regex in ruby like this: /some.+?stuff/m However you have just started to get used to Textmate as an editor …