Tweaking the Dock in OS X
The Dock in OS X has quite a few hidden features, which are not accessible through its simple System Preferences panel. Here are some of them.
Web Log
Cirkus Redux
As I was standing in that office, I could barely stop myself from a burst of laughter. I managed to contain myself and turn the laugh into a big smile as I approached the lady with whom I was going to talk. But inside I was roaring with laughter at the serious lady behind her little desk, with the little stacks of papers arranged neatly and her little coffee mug, her telephone, the guard standing watch by the door, the signs on the walls, the whole shebang.
MAC address spoofing on OS X
Sometimes you need to connect to a network, which is designed to only allow connections from certain network interface cards, filtered by their MAC address. This filtering can be avoided by changing or spoofing your computer's MAC.
sudo ifconfig en0 lladdr 00:00:00:00:00:00 # <- the new MAC address
sudo ifconfig en0 down
sudo ifconfig en0 up
Your original Media Access Control address will be restored after a reboot.
Show hidden files in the Finder
It's sometimes necessary to view and manipulate files hidden in your system. Unfortunately the Mac OS X file browser, the Finder, does not display these files by default and has no easy way to access this option. This simple hack allows you to choose whether hidden files are displayed or not.
Using APT from the command line
Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) has been ported over to Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions. There are many useful graphical user interfaces to the system such as Synaptic, but sometimes it's faster or easier to use it from the command line. Here's how.
Browsers 2009: Now for Windows
This is a continuation of the Browsers 2009 post with results for Windows browsers. This time there are 2 arguable winners, but one clear loser.
Browsers 2009: We have a winner!
I downloaded the newest Beta versions of three popular OS X browsers: Opera, Safari and Firefox. To see which one has the best performance, I ran some benchmarks. Here are the results. They pretty much single one browser out as the best.
Sixth Day
On the sixth day man created God in his image.
Inflected
If you would like to know just how inflected the Polish language is take a look at the following word.
“PRZECZYTAŁBYM”
This single verb contains a whole sentence full of information…