Concisest guide to setting up Time Machine server on Ubuntu Server 12.04, 14.04 & Debian

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Dae

“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, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan. If you have a problem, you might be able to find a solution in the comments section below the article.

Update: if you try this in CentOS, replace apt-get with yum where necessary.

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Word 2011: paste unformatted (plain) text with Cmd+V shortcut

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Dae

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 as “Paste and match formatting”, which first pastes rich text and then formats it. Continue reading →

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Looking for programmers to work on Mouse Movement Recorder for OS X

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Dae

MMR

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). Continue reading →

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Two questions from the SmoothMouse dev team

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Dae

Two major questions about Quartz Events that we’re currently puzzling over:

  1. Weak performance of CGEventPost under GPU load.
  2. Detecting CGAssociateMouseAndMouseCursorPosition.

We have a couple of ideas about (2), but clueless about (1).

If you have an account on StackOverflow, I’d really appreciate if you upvote the questions.

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Run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from TextMate

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dae

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.

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OS X will never be the same

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Dae

SmoothMouse.com.

Happy New Year!

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What to expect from SmoothMouse

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Dae

SmoothMouse is not typical software. It does not have a lot in common with desktop applications that you use every day, such as an Internet browser, email client or text editor. I think SmoothMouse can be somewhat described by the word ‘hack’ from geek speak, because we, the developers of SmoothMouse, do things that Apple does not want 3rd party developers to do, to make mouse movement bearable in OS X. We’re facing a lot of challenges because of that. But that’s not all. From time to time we also stumble across bugs in Apple’s APIs. This is another challenge. Continue reading →

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“Show in Finder” not working in Mountain Lion

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Dae

In OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) there is a very annoying bug which prevents “Show in Finder” (or “Reveal in Finder“, “Open in Finder“) functionality (usually a menu item) from working in many applications including TextMate, TotalFinder, Transmit, The Unarchiver, Postbox, iPhoto. Continue reading →

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Dealing with “Installation failed” in pkgbuild caused by a preinstall/postinstall bash script

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Dae

So I was writing an installer for the SmoothMouse kernel extension using pkgbuild/productbuild and there was one bug which I couldn’t get my head around for a couple of hours. Basically, Apple Installer always reported failed installation (without any useful explanation) after running a very simple bash script that unloads my kext.

…but then a moment of enlightment suddenly occured to me! Caution: geek humor →

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SmoothMouse and trackpads

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Dae

I’ve been asked many times if SmoothMouse will support trackpads. Continue reading →

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