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upgrading to Mac OS X Mountain Lion
starting with Mountain Lion X11 for Mac OS X is available on a separate website: xquartz.macosforge.org, support.apple.com/kb/HT5293 RCS binaries get provided in /Developer/usr/bin, but e.g. “rcsdiff” makes use of a hard-wired “co” by the full path of /usr/bin/co; my fix for this: I symlinked ../Developer/usr/bin/co to /usr/bin/co. you need XCode of course as a Fink user, you need to…
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downloading Apple’s Xcode from the “Mac App Store”
Xcode Downloads and Resources – Apple Developer You decide, you need XCode, you are going to the Mac App Store, you are pressing the Install button, going to download 1.65 GB, and the only feedback you are getting for quite a while is the button saying “Installing“.
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Mac OS X “Mountain Lion”, X11, the XQuartz project
support.apple.com/kb/HT5293: About X11 and OS X Mountain Lion starting with Mountain Lion X11 for Mac OS X is available on a separate website: xquartz.macosforge.org
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using “calibre” for “e-book management”
http://calibre-ebook.com I listened to colleagues nearby here in the office this morning. Colleague A had gotten a Kindle as birthday present, he “certainly” doesn’t want to get the typical publications for the Kindle, instead he wants to get dusty PDFs and whatever from the 16th century, and his initial question to colleague B was, whether…
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some miseries behind the scenes in Brazil now went a little more public
Laughterkey Tumbls Here • Hello, I’m from Brazil. You probably don’t know…
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I started using WhatsApp last night
WhatsApp – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My 1st device to start the WhatsApp with was my Samsung Galaxy S2. I sat on the bus going through Hamburg St. Pauli, and my mobile phone Internet connection wasn’t really all that stable. It changed from 3G (whatever variant of UMTS) through E (EDGE) through G (GSM), and…
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using my old iPhone as secondary phone w/o Internet access over mobile network
How do I switch “Internet access over mobile network” off in my old iPhone3? I may want to hook on the Internet over Wi-Fi once in a while, but I must avoid “Internet access over mobile network“, as its current SIM card has no dedicated tariff for that any longer. In my Android set-up I…
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CPAN modules for generating passwords (remember “pwgen”!)
I started digging a little into this, when I faced the challenge to provide a customer with a password generator available on his platform. I myself had used Theodore Ts’o’s pwgen for years, so that was my search keyword. Neil Bowers on CPAN modules for generating passwords [link] (looks like THE CONTEMPORARY REPORT on the topic)…