Building the AppStore version of Growl
By Jared Hobbs, posted Nov. 7, 2011, 11:54 a.m.
The latest versions of Growl are only officially available through the AppStore. The AppStore version is now a paid app. For those of you who don't want to pay for it, the source code is still freely available and BSD licensed.
Here's how to build the latest Growl version from source (those who don't want to compile the source themselves but still want the latest Growl for free, check the links at...
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New site for my Python code
By Jared Hobbs, posted Oct. 31, 2011, 1:50 p.m.
I created a new site for my Python code: http://www.pyhacker.com
All my Python code will live there for now on. I'm copying over the python articles from this site to that one although I won't delete them from here. All new Python related content will be posted at the new site.
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Mounting box.net account on Ubuntu
By Jared Hobbs, posted Oct. 25, 2011, 12:17 p.m.
For those who don't know, box.net is offering 50GB of free storage to iPad and iPhone users for a limited time. I signed up for an account and wanted to access this 50GB from my headless linux box. Box.net offers access through WebDAV so the first thing I tried was mounting via davfs2. Mounting worked but I was unable to access any of my directories. File access was fine but creating a directory resulted in...
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Install OS X Client as a guest inside VMWare Fusion 4
By Jared Hobbs, posted Sept. 14, 2011, 4:06 p.m.
Today, VMWare released version 4 of Fusion. They add the ability to install Lion Client and Server versions but Leopard and Snow Leopard are only supported in the Server versions (due to EULA issues).
As an educational exercise, I installed Snow Leopard Client version as a guest. Here's how:
- Create a new VM. Select Snow Leopard Server as guest type
- Edit the .vmx file that's created and remove the line: firmware = "efi"
- Download the modify.sh script attached to...
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Adding a Software License Agreement to a DMG file
By Jared Hobbs, posted July 28, 2011, 3:16 p.m.
This thread has moved to my new site here: http://pyhacker.com/archive2011/adding-software-license-agreement-dmg-file/
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