What the hell did Apple think when they made their filesystem case insensitive? This makes it impossible to use a MacOS for any serious purpose.

HFS+ does support these days case sensitive, but a lot of retarded devs wrote their apps to not be case sensitive (and yes some of them work for Adobe)

There is not a single *nix OS where the default FS is cause insensitive…

First one is to install ls through macports. This can be accomplished by doing a

This installs the the GNU variant of sysutils (of which ls is a part of) and overrides the names (the new ls will be called gls). All you have to do is add the following line in your.

The second version is to enable the colours inside the BSD-style ls provided by apple. This is achieved by aliasing ls to ls -G . I found the default colours unusable so I went ahead and defined my own. The colorscheme is controlled by the LSCOLOR environment variable.

There are 11 types of objects that can have colors. These objects are listed in the following order:

1. directory
2. symbolic link
3. socket
4. pipe
5. executable
6. block special
7. character special
8. executable with setuid bit set
9. executable with setgid bit set
10. directory writable to others, with sticky bit
11. directory writable to others, without sticky bit

For each object you need to define the foreground colour and the background color.

The recognized colours are:

a black
b red
c green
d brown
e blue
f magenta
g cyan
h light grey
A bold black
B bold red
C bold green
D bold brown
E bold blue
F bold magenta
G bold cyan
H bold light grey
x default foreground or background 

My choice of colours:

This means: blue foreground, default background dirs, cyan foreground, default background symlinks, …

Keep those evil sniffers away….

For those who did not get it:
1) A cat always falls on it’s feet
2) A piece of bread always falls with the buttered side down

The face on the guy is priceless…

If for some reason you need to see everything in Finder you can configure this with the following:

To revert to the default setting:

Guess everybody is aware of the extremely annoying thing issue of the Mac “uninstall”. Almost every app that needs more privileges than the standard user offers comes packaged as a pkg file. These files are absolutely awesome and offer endless possibilities.

There is problem though: in their arrogance, almost no application developer can conceive that somebody would ever try to get rid of their software. Effect: you are stuck with a program that you cannot uninstall in a easy/clean way.

A sort of a solution is to crack open the pkg file, and delete one file at a time using the Terminal.

The only free way I found so far to open a package, comes in the form of a QuickView (thing that pops up when you press space in Finder) plugin that allows you to view every operation that was performed on your system (and a list of files belonging to the app).

To view the contents of a pkg download, install SuspiciousPackage . I had to install the plugin globally for it to work.

I guess I hate more this blight then I love the insanely simple app installation procedure to just “copy to Applications”…

Apple should either whip some sense in the developers or provide some system-wide package management system that keeps track of all the files installed.

\rant off

I used before JollyFastVNC and ChickenOfTheVNC, but with both the mouse is lagging horribly (for most of the time you got 2 pointers and do not know which is the local one and the remote one).

Enjoy!!!!

Since I am such an Apple fanboy I thought it’s high time to write some small IPhone app. With this occasion I would apply also some of my extensive theoretical photo knowledge.

Well guess what? There is no easy, or official way to access the low level functions related to the camera…

Way to go Apple for creating another nice gizmo, that gives close to ZERO tinkering possibilities.

The battle will be tough, but my courage I shall prove.

Will have to get my nice titanium plated, unibody I-shovel and start digging for a way that is not “supported” to control the camera.

Mac has two different names, The Computer name which is visible on the network and the hostname, which is the thing you see in the terminal.

To change the network name you simply go to System Preferences->Sharing and change the Computer Name.

To change the hostname simply type

where your desired hostname is slackbook
Close the terminal and start it again and you should see the new name.