Tips for pairing an Apple Remote:
recompiling OpenBSD 3.9 (and higher) to use Adaptec (aac) adapters
The difference between "single ranked" and "dual ranked" DIMMs. See page two of this PDF.
Some server class motherboards require an EPS12v power supply. An example is the Tyan i7320 S5350G2NR dual Xeon motherboard.
Also note that this motherboard has a PCI-Express bus, but no slots for any PCI-Express cards. The PCI-E bus is apparently dedicated to the onboard dual Gigabit Ethernet.
SuSE LES 9 wouldn't give me an alternate console (alt+f2, etc.) until I booted with ACPI disabled.
Compiling netatalk 2 and can't find / doesn't build uams_dhx.so?
Install openssl-devel headers and configure again...
ld: cannot find -lgmodule-2.0
make sure the glib2 dev files are installed...
The BOM (Byte Order Mark) of UTF files can interfere with sending HTTP headers from PHP. I was getting a "cannot modify header information" error trying to set a cookie on UTF-8, but not Macintosh character encoding... setting the file type to "UTF-8 no BOM" did the trick.
iChat saves your sessions in ~/Documents/iChats
Free 3d modeler (and supports Linux!): Wings 3D
Very inexpensive 3d modeler: Silo
Not bad with an educational discount: LightWave 3D
Less expensive than LightWave, but seems to lack a good modeler (and defaults to a centimeter scale rather than meters, so doing architectural work at scale seems to disappear the reference grid): Carrara Pro
Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications (SOFIA) is a bit touchy about its X11 $DISPLAY environment variable. At least it is on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 w/Tomcat 4.1 with this crappy facilities management web interface Java app. Of course, this crappy FM web interface seems considerably better than the one it replaces.
Solution: set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 in one of the startup scripts.
On SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 w/Tomcat 5.0, set the variable like this: export DISPLAY=:0.0
You have to have an X session logged in and issue either "xhost +localhost" and/or "xhost +[your ip here]" .
Mac OS X (not server) has a default of allowing guest access if you turn Personal File Sharing on. Instructions on how to fix that.
Nessus is a nice security assessment package. Here's how to install it on Mac OS X.
Three useful extensions for Firefox:
If you go to about:config in Firefox, you can change raw preference values. I had to change accessibility.tabfocus to 3 so I could tab through form control fields.
You won't be able to build on that system unless you arrange HDD space to bypass the Adaptec adapter in question. Do that or find a similar system with a compatible HDD.
These instructions are also a slight modification of the release(8) instructions found in the BSD man pages. They should take, counting compilation, about 5 hours. There are likely faster ways to do this. Total man hours should be about an hour. The OpenBSD team has disabled AAC for good reasons, please evaluate the reliability of using the AAC module within your own requirements.
Say you did something dumb: you took the battery out of your 1996 Jaguar XJ6 and closed the trunk, but the key doesn't open the trunk. (My key mechanism must be broken.) There are two points to energise your vehicle to enable the electric release mechanism.
One is on the firewall, passenger side, /1/3 down from the windshield. It is protected by a black rubber boot.
The second is behind the footwell of the rear-passenger. There should be a thick cable with a crimp mounted to a bolt running across the top of the fuse / relay area. It should be protected by a black rubber boot.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 10, 2008