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Author Archives: Dae
Forcing ReadyNAS to update via SSH when all else fails
One of our ReadyNAS Pro 6 refused to update its firmware (called RAIDiator) to 4.2.24 (the latest as of writing) no matter how I tried. Neither local or automatic updates had any success; reinstalling the OS through the boot menu … Continue reading
HP on mdadm vs. hardware-based RAID
From HP Z230 manual: <…> The Linux kernel, with built-in software RAID, provides excellent functionality and performance. It is a good alternative to hardware-based RAID. It is not a news of course, but (1) I like the wording; (2) it … Continue reading
Draw polylines on HTML5 canvas
jquery-polyline — a jQuery UI widget for drawing polylines. See it in action. Written by Victor Novikov (@Forkest) for Cyberic. License: MIT license.
MODx Evolution: removing spam links
My friend’s MODx Evolution based website was hacked and he’s asked me to help him fix it. Every page of his website was “infected” with invisible links to viagra webshops. The code of those links was as follows: <div style=”position:absolute;left:-2311px;top:-2794px;”><a … Continue reading
Looking for a mouse acceleration programmer
The SmoothMouse dev team is looking for a pointer ballistics engineer person to work on pointer acceleration algorithms (and code).
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Concisest guide to setting up Time Machine server on Ubuntu Server 12.04, 14.04 & Debian
“This worked much better than more recently published guides.” How to quickly set up Time Machine server on Ubuntu Server 12.04/14.04/16.04 and Debian without using extra repositories, unnecessary packages and redundant configuration. Backing up tested on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, … Continue reading
Word 2011: paste unformatted (plain) text with Cmd+V shortcut
Update from 2018: for Word 2016 instructions, click here. The following video shows how to assign pasting as plain text (without formatting) to Cmd+V keyboard shortcut/hotkey in Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac OS X. Note that it is not the same … Continue reading
Looking for programmers to work on Mouse Movement Recorder for OS X
We’re looking for programmers with expertise in systems programming to work on Mouse Movement Recorder for OS X (github.com/SmoothMouse/Mouse-Movement-Recorder, released under the MIT license).
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Two questions from the SmoothMouse dev team
Two major questions about Quartz Events that we’re currently puzzling over: Weak performance of CGEventPost under GPU load. Detecting CGAssociateMouseAndMouseCursorPosition. We have a couple of ideas about (2), but clueless about (1). If you have an account on StackOverflow, I’d … Continue reading
Run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from TextMate
I wrote a simple TextMate 1.5 bundle to run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from the TextMate window. It can easily be modified to run the language of your choice.