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If you don’t want to have to fork over the $$ to buy a time capsule want to make use of your existing DNS-323 hardware for backing up your Mac, here’s the steps to take.
1) Modify system preferences by executing this line in a terminal.

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

This will allow you to select the [...]

After weeks of frustration with my RHEL terminal windows closing themselves after a small interval of inactivity, (go for lunch and my terminals were closed)… I finally found out the solution to prevent this ‘default’ behaviour that comes in RHEL.
The /etc/profile was the culprit.  Simply remove the following lines or update them to a much [...]

You don’t have to be much of a Techy to know about the power Firebug brings to the Firefox browser.  I’ve often been frustrated but the lack thereof of such support in IE… until now.  The Internet Explorer (IE) Developer Toolbar has been around for quite some time now, but in my ignorance I had [...]

I recently started using Safari 4 and found in incredibly disorienting having new tabs appear at the very top of the window frame.  To my suprise there’s a hidden setting that can change the location of the tab bar to something you might be more familiar with.  Check out this blog for a complete listing [...]

Here’s a neat shortcut for doing selectable screen captures on a Mac: ⌘⇧4 (Command – Shift – 4) – will change your cursor and allow you to select a region on the screen to capture. After highlighting the region release the mouse button and voila!.. a new image file will be saved to your desktop [...]

MacPorts is the preferred way of installing, managing, and upgrading ports of some the software I have on my Mac.  Unfortunately mac ports does not let you specify a version.  To mediate this you can create a local repository that is checked out to a specific version and install from there.
This example is how to [...]

Working in a Mac environment I often find myself needing access to the system directories that are typically hidden by Finder.  I recently stumbled across the following script that I find quite useful for toggling back / forth between standard and full views.
Open ScriptEditor and save the following script:
try
set dotVisible to do shell script “defaults [...]

In Vmware server 1.04, you can use the following process to rename the vmdk files:
1. Copy folder, rename vmx file
2. Edit machine, change hostname
3. Rename vdmk
4. Edit settings and add disk you just renamed as existing disk (remove old one)
5. Start vm and check it works (don’t forget to use newsid)
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Below are the installation note’s I captured in installing Oracle10.2.0.1 on a Fedora 8 workstation. For some reason installations ofOracle on Fedora linux in past never went as smooth as hoped.. I washowever relatively happy with how things turned out on F8 and its niceto see some of the old problems, like hanging during [...]

Create a script that you’ll be able to setup as a cron entry to run daily. For a FC7 mirror I used the following:

#!/bin/bash
ARCH=i386 # Set to the architecture of your systems

# Mirror found at: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/
# Be sure to include trailing slash.
RELEASES_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/$ARCH/
RELEASES_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/$ARCH/
CORE_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/releases/7/Live/$ARCH/os/
CORE_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Live/i386/os/
UPDATES_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/$ARCH/
UPDATES_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/updates/7/$ARCH/

mkdir -p $RELEASES_DIR
cd $RELEASES_DIR || exit
rsync –recursive –delete -v $RELEASES_URL .

mkdir [...]