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Backup My MacBook Pro
My internal hard drive failed recently, but because of my backup plan, I did not loose any work. Because it works well enough, I would like to share my backup plan with you. Please let me (haiv) know if you have any additional questions. The Plan I back up my MacBook Pro’s internal drive using […]
Squeeze Multiple Blank Lines within vim
March 10, 2011
The Problem I want to squeeze multiple blank lines into just one while editing in vim. I often receive source code which the author used multiple blank lines to separate functions. I don’t mind if functions or code block are one or two lines apart, but I have seen sources where functions are four or […]
Upgrade My Mac’s Hard Drive
March 5, 2011
My 4.5 year-old MacBook is getting slower every day due to its age against the new OS and applications. To give it a new lease in life, I replaced its 500GB hard drive with a 120GB SSD from OWC. This post discusses the upgrade process. Before the Upgrade Unwind Applications This step disconnects the applications […]
Open Windows Share
June 14, 2010
As a Mac user in a Windows world, I can get along just fine. I can share files with my colleagues, collaborate documents, or communicate. However, one of the annoyances I face has to do with how Windows and Mac references SMB shares. Windows uses the \\server\share notation while Mac uses smb://server/share. I often receive […]
Add Color Coding to Mac OS X’s Quick Look for Source Codes
October 11, 2009
The Problem The recent releases of Mac OS X has a wonderful feature: quick look. By selecting a file in the Finder and hit spacebar, the user can quickly view the contents of that file, be it text, audio, video, graphics, and many other file types. I often want to quick look the contents of […]
Mac OS X Bag of Tips
September 25, 2009
Every day, I spend most of my work hours at the OS X terminal. Consequently, I accumulated a few tips and tricks I would like to share with the readers. Selecting Text To select a word, double click on that word. The terminal is smart enough to discern when the period acts as a sentence […]
Share Your Printer in Snow Leopard – How To
September 12, 2009
This tutorial solves the following problem: the user wants to print to a printer attached to another Mac. Open the System Preferences Click on the Apple menu at the top left corner of your screen, then click on "System Preferences" Open Print & Fax Locate and click on this icon Turn on Sharing (1) Click […]
I’m a PC – A Subliminal Message
September 2, 2009
I’m a PC Originally uploaded by haivu_ed Microsoft is sending me a subliminal message!
Replacing My Laptop’s Hard Drive
August 20, 2009
I purchased my MacBook in the second half of 2007 with a relatively large hard drive of 60GB. Remember, 60GB is sizable in 2007. I then replaced it with a 160GB drive and even that drive now is full. My hard drive du jour is a 500BG, which should last me a couple of months […]
Changing Directory Listing (ls) Color in Linux and Mac OS X
April 25, 2009
Problem I practically “live” on the Linux command line and one thing that has been bugging me for so long that now I decided to do something about it. On my company’s Linux systems the ls command produces color output, which makes it easy to distinguish different file types. However, the directories are dark blue […]
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