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Hey, another wiki. Great!
Here, you will find things. You may notice that anonymous edits are firmly DISABLED. Yeah, THAT'S RIGHT. I am intentionally destroying the communal benefits that wiki was designed to provide. Why? I friggin hate spam, and my two previous wikis were consumed by friggin spambots. You may also notice that you can't create a user account. COPE! :) If you really want to contribute, please mail me at dreNOSPAMPLSKTHX@mac.com, and I'd be more than happy to let you in.
Here is the page of User:Dre, your esteemed information broker.
You may want to scope my other, less sandbox-like presence: http://www.dreness.com
Parallels
Wrangling virtual machines!
Cool Apps
A list of applications that I've found useful / cool
Scripting
Here's where I keep a bunch of scripting snippets / examples. This includes:
- Basic shell scripting idioms (tests, loops, redirection)
- zsh profile elements
- AppleScript Droplet example
- Perl scripts
Useful Commands
Some useful and often Mac OS X specific commands. So far:
- Using dd to rescue data from a dying disk
- Encypted and growable disk images
- perl one-liner for global find / replace
- finding the input device idle time from ioreg
TigerPage
This stuff is all specific to Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger. Some items discussed here:
- launchd
- dummynet
Network Stuff
- iTunes Remote Streaming details the process for using iTunes music sharing across a WAN.
- AS / Routing Research includes information about determining the number of discrete logical paths in and out of an Autonomous System (AS)
- TCP Timeouts shows some sysctl configuration for adjusting TCP window sizes.
- xinetd, ssh and netcat is a xinetd configuration example showing how to use xinetd to trigger ssh / netcat on demand to encrypt pop3 traffic.
Servers / Hosting
I once maintained a FreeBSD box in colo. Check out the page of meta, where I have notes and instructions for the various services I was running.
Rebuilding floe from OpenBSD to FreeBSD.
Mac OS X Server stuff.
Net SNMP items.
Cheat sheets
Compling / Development
php in OS X
bugzilla in OS X
phpbb in OS X
rrdtool builds without error in 10.3.9
He once solved some Panther DNS Issues
Installing and using unix software in userland
In your shell init file, set the following (for bash / zsh compatible shells):
export LDFLAGS='-L/path/to/your/home/lib' export CPPFLAGS='-I/path/to/your/home/include' export PATH='/path/to/your/home:$PATH' export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/your/home/lib export LD_INCLUDE_PATH=/path/to/your/home/include
Log out / in, so that the above takes effect.
- Configure any dependencies with --prefix=/path/to/your/home, and make / make install as usual. They will be installed into your home directory (~/lib, ~/include, ~/bin)
- Configure your desired software with --prefix=/path/to/your/home and make /make install as usual. It should pick up all your new libs / includes due to the environment variables.
When you execute your new binaries, they will be able to find your userland libraries thanks to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
How to make and apply patches
Once you have the needed changes, apply them (pre autoconf) to a copy of a fresh source directory. You should now have a 'patched' directory sitting alongside an unpatched direcetory. Now generate the patch...
diff -ruN old new > my_patch
To apply this patch to a fresh source directory, place the patch alongside the source dir:
patch -p0 < my_patch
... and then of course, the requisite links to the mediawiki docs, hosted at wikipedia:
Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.
