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  • the UNIX hostname–where can you change it on Mac OS X?

    My Mac Book’s current “hostname” looks really weird. I would rather like to change it.

    Update 2013-06-15:
    A: in Sharing you can change the computer name.

  • [[RATHER OLD ARTICLE]] how to remove an app installed through “Installous”

    After I had bought my iPhone (on a German “prepaid” card, so: I did pay quite some money for it, and I don’t feel like I stole it, and I don’t have an expensive monthly tariff on a “postpaid” card), I got somebody to jailbreak it. He installed Cydia, Installous, and “all that”.

    I the meantime I also installed a few apps from those repositories, but I wasn’t able to remove any of them.

    Now I found a setting to get apps installed through Installous to appear under my iPhone’s Applications on iTunes on my PC. Looks like that is a way to also remove them.

    Yes, I read there is an issue with that “AppSync”. So be sure, you know, what you do, before you also simply toggle that switch. Your “other apps” might get removed by iTunes next time you sync your iPhone.

    I am now stuck in a huge sync, and I will interrupt it, as my SO keeps reminding me through the phone, that we have an appointment in the gym.
    At least I do know now, how to get rid of that app, that I didn’t find useful. It drives me nuts, if I can’t find things like that out in a rather short time.

    Oh, just a short extra note, before I leave for the gym: YES, that syncing DID remove a few apps, that I didn’t want to get removed. Those were those navigation apps, that the guy thought I should get installed by him for quite some bucks. Well, not to worry, I shall poke him for that soon. Offfffffff for the gym!

  • Developing iPhone Apps Requires Xcode on the Mac – O’Reilly Broadcast

    Developing iPhone Apps Requires Xcode on the Mac – O’Reilly Broadcast

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  • Could Adobe potentially harm the iPhone AppStore – InsideRIA

    Could Adobe potentially harm the iPhone AppStore – InsideRIA

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  • my Mac now connects through my UMTS USB modem

    I have been using my “XS Stick W12” from 4g-systems.com for almost a year on my EeePC running WinXP and also on my FRITZ!Box 7270.
    Now I can also make use of it on my Mac Book Pro. Splendid.
    Looks like 4g-systems.com now sell their current model (XS Stick W14) w/o branding and SIM-lock for EUR 100. Not bad, question is, whether the 7270 supports it.

  • my Mac now prints on the colour laser printer attached to the FRITZ!Box router

    The Samsung CLP-315 gets accessed via “HP JetDirect”. Yesterday I wasn’t able to set it up as network printer and let it find the driver on Samsung’s CD. Today I let Samsung’s printer installation routine set up a local printer (which isn’t actually installed), but at least the driver got installed somewhere on OS X, and then I could assign the right driver to the network printer configuration. Now I successfully printed my 1st page on my very own Mac.
    Alright, alright, I admit it: I vaguely remember already having successfully attached my ex’s (i.e. “-1”) Mac Mini (which isn’t officially hers …) my FRITZ!Box …, so I knew it would work sooner or later.
    Now this is really a nice CUPS printer set up underneath!!!
    I wished my openSuSE-11.1 computers would accept the CLP-315 driver as well!
    Until then I only create PDF-s on them and printed them via Windows or OS X.

    I really love this set up: the laser printer attached via USB to my 7270, acting as a network printer.

    AVM’s description on how to attach a printer to the 7270 through USB was actually very helpful:

    Update 2014-07-15:
    The vanilla Mac OS X on my 2014 Mac mini did not have the drivers for my Samsung printers available, even not after the 1st OS updates. After attaching one of them via USBn though (apparently) all the Samsung printer drivers got installed (supposedly via the network). Then installing them one way or the other as network printers worked.

  • a completer UNIX on Mac OS X

    I find Mac OS X for Unix Geeks very, very helpful. I own the the Tiger paper version, and also the Leopard PDF.
    (If you hold an O’Reilly account, and if you register your Leopard paper version of this book by simply entering the right ISBN und My Account, then this month the PDF upgrade costs you only $4.99. Pragmatic Progammers also ask you a question like “what’s the 1st word on page 203”, which  you can obviously also answer correctly, if you sit in the coffee corner of your book store with your computer on your lap. But you are an honest book owner, aren’t you?)

    Download fink from sourceforge! This opens a wide realm of extra UNIX utility to you. A very nice installer and repository!!

    Tell fink to install emacs22-carbon for you! Yes, there is also a carbon native version of emacs. There is also an an emacs23-app (this is a carbon version!!) in the unstable area of the repository, but you don’t want to start your UNIX life on OS X with unstable utilities, as I do, do you?!?

    MacPorts is another nice installer and repository, that you may want to get hold on.

  • an X-Windows GNU emacs on Mac OS X

    Is there any such beast?
    The emacs, that comes with Leopard’s X11 optional package, seems to be an alphanum only one.
    To be continued …

  • the Latin word “vindicare” and its descendants like “revanche” and “vengeance”

    I was recently communicating with “somebody” on a revanche-seeking person,
    and “somebody” was creating the German word vingativ from the Portuguese word vingativo.

    It actually took me a moment to find out, what it really means and where it derives from. Initially I had not clue at all, to be honest.

    The English wiktionary entry on revanche did not help at all,
    but the French one on vengeance
    and the Portuguese on vingar did.
    They both refer to the Latin vindicare (which is actually a pretty empty entry),
    but that word in fact means going to justice (maybe somebody wants to replace this English phrase).

    So that word made quite a way from going to justice to do-it-yourself justice, didn’t it? What dou you think?

  • I trust Tagged

    There has been some news today that NY’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will sue Tagged for doing bad things like identity theft.

    I do care about my informational identy and privacy,
    but I frankly want to tell everybody,
    I have got not worries WRT this and Tagged.