Entropy increases

Assuming you have a PDF which has certain restrictions on it (for example you cannot edit the PDF using Preview in the usual way), but which...

Mac OS X Lion provides a command line tool to scan for wireless networks and print useful information about the networks: /System/Library/...

There are my personal preferences. Your preferences may differ. alias e=jed alias mv="mv -i" alias cp="cp -i" alias r...

Zotac Zbox ID18 Samsung SSD 840 EVO 1TB 4GB RAM (SODIMM 1600) Ubuntu 13.10 Samsung SSD firmware update: The process is quite broken:...

My favorite jed setting in $HOME/.jedrc USE_TABS = 0; LINENUMBERS = 2; % For the following to work you _must_ comment out any c_set_styl...

Today I again got the 'toner empty' messages from my Brother MFC-7440N printer, for the second toner cartridge in this printers life...

One thing which bugged me was that every now and then my desktop background on my Mac Book Pro would turn plain medium gray at tome point. I...

If you have a dual-boot system with Ubuntu Linux and Windows and you would like to boot Windows by default instead of Ubuntu you will find t...

When I have an unformatted manpage file like foo.1 I had always big trouble looking at it. man foo.1 and setting the man path using -M di...

Today I benchmarked my i3 Linux laptop vs my i7 MacBook. The results are what I expected, though I am quite happy about the performance of ...

I support this to the fullness: Copyright-restriction-free Christmas songs from the Musikpiraten e.V.: http://cdn.musikpiraten-ev.de/sing...

I used this tool to print an A5 document as booklet with staples and four pages per sheet on Mac: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21068/c...

After switching to Lion and importing all my old mails (actually all users) from the time machine backup I found that all old mails were the...

The reoccurring pattern continues: With every individual new Mac OS X version Apple kills existing VPN solutions for Max OS. This is at lea...

I'll never really get the concept behind the surfaces and default surfaces and no surfaces with recode. Anyway, this is how to convert a...

You can cut/copy/paste across to/from your screen sharing session. It just does not share the copy buffer automatically. Instead you need to...

Recently the Nvidia graphics card in my MacBook Pro died (the well known Nvidia hardware failure problem) and I wanted to control the (other...

I did not find any way to set the page margins with TextEdit itself in an RTD (RTFD) document. But actually this is quite easy to do by edit...

I just stumbled across this very true summary about technical debt  and how to deal with it: http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2011/07/22/w...

Today I got the 'toner empty' messages from my Brother MFC-7440N printer. I printed 850 pages total and this is a TN-2110 which came...

I don't know what is going, but the high level symptom is 100% reproducible since my very first days on Max OS X: After not having used ...

Today I wanted to download all sent and received SMSes from my Nokia 6021 phone via Bluetooth. This utility worked for me on Mac OS X: Phone...

Today my Keychain Access (in german Schlüsselbundverwaltung crashed reproducibly on startup. The first symptom was actually that Safari did ...

Firefox does not honor the normal Mac OS X keybindings. Install this Firefox extension fo fix these keys: http://mavaball.net/wiki/index.php...

It is possible to move Dashboard widgets back a forth between the desktop and the dashboard: To enable this feature: defaults write com.appl...

http://timotoivonen.fi/misc/apple.html (keyboard shortcuts, iTunes)

I recently installed snow leopard and got rid of all my old Mac ports. One of the things which I did not figure out immediately was how to i...

The Apple behavior of the Zoom/Maximize button is annoying. It behaves differently for *every* application and the intended 'use only as...

When I tried to move some time machine backups out of the way (so that the Migration Assistant/Migrationsassistent) would not find them (and...

I just installed eyetv hybrid and after that I could not use my integrated iSight camera (in my Mac Book Pro) with Skype or iChat. They woul...