Restoring the “traditional” Meaning of Home and End Keys on OS X Mountain Lion

The Home and End keys on Mac OS X work quite a bit different then one would expect coming from other operating systems. Instead of the familiar beginning of line and end of line behaviour Apple decided that it should put the courser at the beginning or the end of the document. I find this

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AppleScript Wrapper for rsync

I like rsync… a lot. It is the perfect tool to keep large amounts of data synchronized across volumes. This especially true if the vast bulk of the data does not change. Until now I have been using a shell script to do the various rsync tasks I required. However, since I just braved the

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Add a Filetype to “Open With”

The problem: I like MacVim with syntax highlighting for all major programming tasks. MacVim is pretty good at adding itself as an application to most filetypes I would use it for – until I installed Arduino and MPIDE. Since MPIDE is based on Arduino pre-1.0 it used the .pde file extension. Arduino 1.0 uses the

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Creating a Bootable FreeNAS USB Stick on a Mac

Obtain the FreeNAS image. For this example I am using FreeNAS-amd64-embedded-0.7.2.5543.img. Have a USB stick on hand that hopefully supports booting.

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Create ISO image using hdiutil on OS X

How exactly can one create a good old ISO image using readily available Mac tools? After all, the Disk Utility seems to heavily favor the DMG format. Here is the magic, using the terminal run:

hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o <output file> <folder with files>/

Note that the files to populate the ISO with need

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Create ISO image from CD/DVD with Mac OS X

Some quick instructions on how to create an ISO image from a CD or DVD using Mac OS X. But sadly this has failed in creating iso images of some disks, such as Microsoft installer disks.

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