NOTE: SMALL UPDATE FOR SNOW LEOPARD USERS. KEEP THIS UPDATE NEXT TO THIS POST Just bought a network disk last week to backup some stuff on from my dads computer. But instead of buying a normal external USB drive, I decided to buy a network drive so I could use it myself. After some research … Continue reading Time Machine & Network Drive
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I had a small problem on my Mac when I wanted to rebuild a subversion repo. When I worked on windows, I just searched the project folder for .svn folders. But on Mac and Linux, thats another story. Thankfully for the command-line, one quick command, and the problem is fixed: find . | grep .svn$ … Continue reading Remove hidden .svn folders from command-line
Today, I needed to empty a folder through bash on my Linux server that contained a lot of files. The files where maybe 2kb, but all the files together contained over 400Mb. So I used rm * to remove them, but it threw me a nice error: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long . Looks … Continue reading bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
Finally, I found a nice solution for the RoR 2.2 MySQL problem. The initial problem was that the MySQL library isn’t bundled with RoR anymore, and you need to install it as a gem. No big deal at first, but we Leopard users are “plagued” with the fact that Apple has somewhat of an exotic … Continue reading Mac Leopard, ROR 2.2 and MySQL
I recently made the switch to mac. I just love working with it. But I’m experiencing some downsides to it. This is probably due to lack of knowledge about Mac. Like most of you know, I’m in the web development business. So I need PHP and Ruby on Rails. I was happy to notice that … Continue reading Mac, though love