Let me help you install IOTstack on a Mac Mini. Why? Just because you can? Well, maybe. The true motivation, however, is that I had an un(der)used late 2012 Mac Mini at home that looked to be perfectly suited to run a few Docker containers. The IOTstack README introduces the project like this: IOTstack is […]
I never found an up-to-date and conclusive article on how to install Leafnode on OS X. So, I decided to publish one that is based on Configuring LeafNode on OSX by David Thole written in May 2010. He’s everywhere (GitHub, Twitter, YouTube, Stackoverflow, etc.) but his own site is often down and, therefore, the link […]
For a very long time I was annoyed that the iPhoto order language is wrong for me each and every time I order print products from Apple. I live in Switzerland, speak mainly German and English, on my Mac I use English as the system language yet the iPhoto order language is always French (which […]
With a newly set up Maven project I tried deploying the site using mvn site:deploy. The command kept failing with the following error Embedded error: Error performing commands for file transfer Exit code: 0 – bash: unzip: command not found for the longest time. I tried all kinds of funny things although I was 100% […]
I recently managed to mess up my Mac mini while resetting PRAM and NVRAM. I did reset them indeed but something got corrupted because the mini would hang at the blue screen with the spinning beach ball re-appearing time and time again. Strangely I could still connect to it with SSH and file sharing worked, […]
On Windows machines I’m used to using FinePrint to pre-process every document before it’s actually sent to the printer (2 on 1 page, 4 on 1, booklet, watermark, template, etc). From that suite of features what I miss the most on OS X is the ability to print booklets. Turns out there are at least […]
Looking for a way to modify the default printer presets i.e. the presets called “Standard” in OS X I came across a Mac OS X Hints article that talks about the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompresets.plist file. However, what I found way more interesting is that apparently OS X provides a web interface for CUPS at http://localhost:631/ for the […]
On a new OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard the Huwei E220 USB modem (from Swisscom in my case) didn’t work anymore. The USB dongle mounts and the files on the mounted drive were visible but the Unlimited Connection Manager (UCM) installer contained in the mounted drive crashed always. It’s obviously not compatible with 10.6. To […]
After upgrading my Mac mini from Leopard to Snow Leopard it did no longer wake from sleep when I sent the magic wake-on-lan package. So, I checked the network and energy settings and noticed that Snow Leopard’s new Wake-On-Demand (WOD ?) feature was disabled. I didn’t change that and started to wonder why WOL didn’t […]
I slept like a baby! The omnipresent rush of the Kunene river must have lulled my mind. As I get up at 7:10, being the last of the party, I plan to spend some “quality time” at the river alone. Impossible! Getting ready for the day, taking a quick shower, putting down the roof tent, […]