So brew threw this at me this morning

If you started Mail and it tells you that your plugin got disabled you have to move the plugin first from the disabled folder back to the “normal” folder:

Did you know, that you can trigger your HotCorners with a modifier key?

I just figured out, that I want to make sure, that I never committed a key to my repository before publishing it, so what’s the easiest way to grep throw all commits in a git repository:

If you have little space on your machine and therefore want to install the LaTeX Basic package (which is only around 150MB instead of a couple of GB) you might run into problems that packages are missing but with tlmgr this is quite easy to solve

To get mission control to pop up fast just write this to your plist file:

Recently I noticed that a config file of Safari gets updated every now and then even if Safari is not running.

Recently I turned on UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) to play a bit with it and instantly noticed that someone/something opened some ports in my router and forwarded them to my machine. So of course I wanted to know what’s going on on my network.

A simple LD_PRELOAD tutorial that works under Linux can be found here. One that can be used under OS X you should also read this one.

If you want a small bash, zsh or shell script that auto authenticates you with Uppsala Universities UpUnet-S you can use this simple one liner, just add our username and password and up you go

bash: ./adb: No such file or directory

1. apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential 2. compizconfig-settings-manager dkms
2. Install the guest drivers
3. Open ccsm (from the console) and disable “Framebuffer object” option under “OpenGL” (be prepared that you won’t be able to read much, but if you activate 3D first, then it will be even worse)
4. shutdown -h now
5. Activate 3D acceleration in VirtualBox
6. power on
7. done.

/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/207813/why-does-an-ubuntu-12-10-guest-in-virtualbox-run-very-very-slowly/214968#214968

FreeMind is a mind-mapping software I recently started to use and I like it, so far. But let the webpage talk for itself: