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I just wrote and entry about how to get nice scrollbars in Finder.
Well there is a way to do the same in other Applications which does not get the resources from OSX. In for example Firefox, copy the Extras2.rsrc to /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources, restart Firefox and the scrollbar looks like it does in iTunes.
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Even though Applehave said that they have made the Leopard GUI unified, there are still a few things which are lacking. For example the scrollbars in Finder are not as nice as in iTunes.
I stumbled over this Italian blog which describes how to change the look of the scrollbars in Finder.
It’s in [...]
If you as I, have been trying to get CarbonCopy (CCC) to work on your IntelMac, and successfully failed, then what?
Well as it turnes out it looks like the problem is not CCC, but psync which is used to do the actual copy, so if you did click the ‘install psync’ in [...]
So you probably have the same issue as I do – you see ‘[sshd] … Invalid user … ‘, a couple of hundred times a day. And would like to stop that, well you could write a script which scannes the /var/log/secure every couple of seconds, or you could do as I did.
First I [...]
There are tools out there which will process (and do other things) the syslog log files. But if you just need to look for specfic things in the logfiles, then somehow installing Snort might be a bit drastic. So what other options are there.
Syslog can log to files (which is quite normal), or FIFO [...]
Perl have never been something I’ve looked in to as it is not as easy (I think as) as what I’m used to, which is C/C++, PHP, Shell scripts, etc. But I’ve found out that there are a few things where nothing beats Perl, and one of them is to create small deamons (and also [...]
As I build a ‘fair’ amount of RPM’s which are available to other people; I was thinking: how do one actually sign RPM’s with a GPG key.
Well here is what I did to get it working:
# gpg –gen-key
…..
Real name: <your name>
Email adresss: <your email>
Comment: rpm build
……
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