iPhone OS 2.0, Norway Telenor
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Another case of sensitivity
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Some time ago I noticed that the console.log on my PowerMac desktop never seemed to got rotated, resulting in an overly large file. Reading up on the topic I discovered that rotation of the console.log is supposedly performed by loginwindow.app and not by the regular cron based rotation scripts, but this somehow seemed to fail.
Distributed compile of Firefox
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
It turns out rolling your own Firefox (and/or Thunderbird) really isn't that complicated, once you have the prerequisites in place. The biggest challenge is in creating your mozconfig, especially if you want an optimized universal build that can be run on both G5 and Mactel machines. Since I am always in for the extra challenge I also used distributed compiling, using distcc.
Read more...Facebook iPhoto plugin
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
If you are geek enough to actually format you MacOSX hard-disk using a case-sensitive file-system, then you will not be able to use the Facebook plugin. This is easily fixed:
open a terminal and execute the following commands:
$ cd /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/PlugIns
$ ln -sfn ../Plugins/Facebook.iPhotoExporter .
The plugin should now show up as a tab in Export...
PAM not required for ticket retention
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
After yet another day of changing sshd_config, pam configuration and an infinite amount of restarts of the SSH daemon, I found a more elegant way of actually getting a SSH enabled host to work as a basecamp for users that are not able to generate proper Kerberos tickets on their local workstation (that is, Windows 2000 users not connected to an AD domain).
