Category Archives: xbsd

TotalTerminal

Posted on August 2, 2011 by martijn

A small gem for OS X! TotalTerminal brings terminal access trough a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides a persistent “Visor Window”  which slides up or down when you press a hot-key. Website: http://totalterminal.binaryage.com/

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PL2303 Serial-USB on OSX Lion

Posted on July 24, 2011 by martijn

Here’s a way to get you PL2303-based Serial-USB adapter working with OS X Lion (10.7). Based on the osx-pl2303 project on github, I’ve built a kernel extension that works with OS X Lion. You can grab the kext file here … Continue reading →

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Short URL’s

Posted on June 13, 2011 by martijn

Just wrote a simple URL shortener in PHP. It generates shortened URL’s in the format “http://xbsd.nl/aBcD”, in which the aBcD part is a random four character string. You can give it a go over at http://www.xbsd.nl/url/. No spam or malicious … Continue reading →

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SparkleShare .. promising

Posted on March 1, 2011 by martijn

Back in the days, before cloud-based services like Dropbox or iDisk, I used to be a big-time user of iFolder. Desktop file-sync for all kinds of platforms with central versioned storage complete in your own control. Too bad current iFolder … Continue reading →

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MobileMe calendar in Evolution

Posted on December 30, 2010 by martijn

Now that the new MobileMe Calendar is based on the iCalendar and CalDAV
standards it becomes a lot easier to access your MobileMe Calendar trough third-party (non-Apple) calendaring tools. For now, we’ll show how to setup the calendar in Evolution, a common e-mail and calendar client on Linux and Unix desktops Continue reading →

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Stacklet, Images for Xen, KVM, VMWare and More

Posted on October 7, 2010 by martijn

Stacklet provides ready to run Linux images and templates for popular virtualization technologies like VMware, KVM and XEN.

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Apple AFP filesharing on FreeBSD

Posted on September 28, 2010 by martijn

On a Mac and have some FreeBSD file-servers around the house of office? Open your file-servers up to easy and fast access via OS X Finder. How? The method is Apple’s native Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), with a bit of … Continue reading →

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IPv6 and Postfix

Posted on August 23, 2010 by martijn

Postfix supports IPv6 from version 2.2 and up. By default only IPv4 support in enabled. Enabling IPv6 is as easy as adding one parameter to Postfix’s main.cf: /etc/postfix/main.cf: # You must stop/start Postfix after changing this parameter. inet_protocols = ipv4 … Continue reading →

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SUSE Studio contest

Posted on August 5, 2010 by martijn

SUSE Studio is a great tool for fast and easy creation of Linux appliances. It’s even possible to give them an online test-drive on a VM. For now, there’s even a promo that gives you the opportunity to win $10k … Continue reading →

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Moved!

Posted on July 25, 2010 by martijn

Bye Blogspot, hello WordPress. We’ve just moved this weblog instance to a new place on the web. All functionality should still be working .. please drop us a line if you find something really really broken.

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