The most exciting new feature in OS X Lion for all paranoid techies out there was the introduction of full-disk encryption (FileVault 2). The previous version of FileVault only enabled you to encrypt your home directory. That was a good start, but it forced you to log out once in a while to recover disk space. This was extra painful if you were using a small …
If you ran one of the beta releases of Mac OS X Lion, you probably ran into a problem when trying to upgrade to the final release of OS X Lion. When I tried to upgrade one of my dev-machines, I was prompted with an error saying “A newer version of this app is already installed on this computer” Of course, you know that isn’t the case, as OS X Lion, just came …
The process is pretty straight forward, and I’m writing this as a ‘Note-to-self’ for future references than anything else. If anyone else find it useful, that’s great. Identify the broken drive Start by identifying the device as the system know it (ie. /dev/sdX or /dev/hdX). The following commands should provide you with the information: cat /proc/mdstat …
Do you have a few long commands that you keep typing in the terminal? Things like ‘cd /some/long/path/that/takes/forever/to/type’ or ‘mycommand -with -lots -of -variables’? If so, here’s something you’ll enjoy. Just open up ~/.profile in your favorite editor, and add the following lines: alias foo="cd /some/long/path/that/takes/forever/to/type" …
I hate wires. I particular hate having to use wires to syncing devices. Luckily, there are ways to avoid them (in most cases). If you are having issues with this, the solution is not to buy MobileMe. Google App/Gmail is all you need. I just posted up an article over at the YippieMove Blog that will tell you how. After reading it, you should be able to sync …
2011 has been a big year for WireLoad. We have launched two brand new products (Blotter and Quiet) in a completely new vertical, namely the desktop market for Mac OS X. It has been a very interesting experience, and we certainly did not foresee the success we’ve had. Just a few weeks ago, Blotter was named ‘App of the Week‘ in Leo Leporte’s show MacBreak …
Regardless if we travel in business or on a vacation, we tend to bring our computer with us (at least I do). Common sense tells us to not check in our computer, but there are other things that we really ought to do. The first thing you want to do is to use disk encryption. The reason for this is simple: if you lose your laptop, nobody can access your files. …
For a few months now, we’ve been working on migrating our physical architecture for YippieMove over to CloudSigma. We got everything up and running swiftly, with the exception of one thing: CARP. As it turns out FreeBSD’s CARP implementation doesn’t really work very well in a virtual environment. (For those curious about the details, please see this mailing …
Last week we launched our second application for Mac OS X. The application is called Quiet and is the best productivity tool I have ever used. The idea behind Quiet is simple. If you were to remove all distractions and only focus on one task at the time, you get more work done. This is exactly what Quiet does. It simply allows you to focus. Let’s say you’re …
This solution is so ugly that I felt that I had to post it =). I had a problem. Whenever I plugged in or rebooted, the a 3G modem into a Linux machine, it appeared on a different path (/dev/ttyUSBX). That creates some issues, as I’m using to connect to the internet, and Wvdial is using a hardcoded path to the modem. To fix this, I had to manually edit the …