January 2010
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Using “Digital Signatur” with Mail.app
Setting up the danish public digital signature with Mail.app is not obvious, but this is what I did to make it work (needed it for setting up ePosthuset with my gmail account):
First install the Digital Signatur from DanID. You should end up with a .pkcs12 certificate file, probably located in ~/.oces
Install the the certificate in your keychain. This is normally done by just double-clicking the...
June 2009
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Using physical partition on a USB disk with...
I wanted to use an external USB disk with a physical partition for a virtual machine in VirtualBox on my MacBook Air, and this isn’t obvious from the gui. So this is what I found out I had to do.
First, make sure that there is no partition on the disk. Then run this command:
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename \
~/Library/VirtualBox/usbdisk.vmk -rawdisk /dev/disk1...
April 2008
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March 2008
2 posts
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“Hi, I’m Web Developer Barbie. Pull my string and I say, “Standards are tough!...”
– Mark Pilgrim on Joel Spolsky
January 2008
3 posts
“The tech press, it seems, has a bad record on judging products on criteria you...”
– Charles Miller on the MacBook Air
November 2007
3 posts
“They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later.”
– Dirk Gently, stating that Newton merely discovered gravity
Colibri tips
I have been using Colibri for a while and - inspired by Humanized Enso - really wanted to use the Caps Lock key to launch it. But unfortunately the configuration dialog requires you to press a combination of two keys.
Then today I found out that you can modify the configuration directly in a couple of SQLite databases(*). So by setting the key combination to eg. Ctrl+Caps Lock and then disable...