Rubénerd :)

Fire up the Terminal and type this:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

I’m on tethered internet so I can’t (and don’t feel compelled) to download iTunes 10, so I can’t check if this works or not. If it makes your Mac explode, don’t come to me for a replacement. I would replace it for you, but I’ve got a lot to do right now you see.

I never knew you could do this!

• In Firefox, click the Bookmarks menu and Organise Bookmarks…
• In the Bookmarks Manager, click the toolbar button with a star
• Click Export HTML… and choose a place to save the exported file

Now you have a tidy, one HTML file backup of all your Firefox bookmarks that you can even open and click links in, and reimport into another machine!

I’ve been a heavy Delicious user since 2003 (so was mum), but sometimes random links find their way into my Bookmarks toolbar. Not enough to warrant use of Mich Kapor’s FoxMarks, but its good to know I can back them up :)

hwbrowser is a slick little GTK application that probes your Linux machine’s hardware and presents the results in a two pane window, in a similar fashion to OS X’s Hardware Profiler.

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As with my beloved FreeBSD, Fedora has a /etc/fstab file that lists partitions to be automatically mounted on boot, but with one important difference: Fedora uses a partition’s UUID and not its label.

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Quick tip I picked up this afternoon. If you try to extract a series of archives with unrar or unzip and you get this error:

% unzip *zip
caution: filename not matched

… you can get around it by escaping the asterisk.

% unzip \*zip

I wonder why it works like this when virtually nothing else does?

A quick followup to my post from yesterday, turns out it is possible to do a clean install of Windows 7 by using a Windows 2000 disc for the upgrade.

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Having fun with FreeBSD on my Libretto this afternoon, I didn’t have internet access to install Vim from ports so I decided to finally learn more about the bundled nvi editor. I missed syntax highlighting, but if you customise it right it’s still a nice, lightweight, capable editor.

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You can use a real, physical drive as a bootable hard disk in Sun Oracle VirtualBox using an undocumented feature, and it even works on Mac hosts!

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I tried to extract a ZIP file I was send this afternoon and got the following error with unzip…

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When I first bought this Western Digital MyBook back in 2008 I thought 1TB was so gigantically massive as to be practically infinite, but here I am in 2010 with four of them and they’re almost all full to bursting. Because I travel and study abroad I need external drives, and I spent extra money to have FireWire versions, so I decided to swap out the 1TB drive from one of the enclosures and fit in a 1.5TB instead of buying another separate unit.

Thanks to some detailed instructions from Carlton Bale it didn’t take too long and am now in the process of moving all my stuff over to the new drive. Wonder how long this one will last?