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iTunes scrollbar in Applications

casper — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:55:27 +0000

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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iTunes scrollbar in Finder

casper — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:39:04 +0000

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 [...]

CarbonCopy and OSX 10.4.8 (Intel)

Casper — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:13:55 +0000

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 [...]

Howto block scripts kiddie’s

Casper — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:07:42 +0000

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 [...]

Howto process syslog log files

Casper — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:00:11 +0000

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 [...]

Daemonize Perl – or howto create a daemon in Perl

Casper — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:43:04 +0000

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 [...]

GPG Sign RPMs

Casper — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:41:32 +0000

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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