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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