Crunchy Cucumber

Using “Digital Signatur” with Mail.app

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:41:00 +0100

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 .pkcs12 file. This should also open the Keychain Access application (Hovednøglering if you’re on a danish system). Locate your certificate—it will probably have your name, eg. Tobias Haagen Michaelsen for me.

Right-click the certificate and select “New Identity Preference…” (da: “Ny id-indstilling…”) and enter your e-mail address. Now comes the tricky part: As I have set up the account in Mail.app with my name and e-mail address, it doesn’t immediately recognize the identity because it has the e-mail address as the name as well, so you have to double-click the identity and change the name to match your Mail.app account.

And after restarting Mail.app it now Works on My Machine™

Deprecated description from Apple

Using physical partition on a USB disk with VirtualBox on Mac OS X

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:09:00 +0200

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 -register

You can now create a virtual machine and use usbdisk.vmk to install a new OS on.

Update: Later, OS X might auto mount the volume created during install. You must unmount this before you can start the virtual machine again.

Finally got my connection running at nearly full speed. Mmmmm...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:16:00 +0200

Finally got my connection running at nearly full speed. Mmmmm — speeeed.

Før tørklædeforbudet

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:54:00 +0100

Før tørklædeforbudet

"Hi, I’m Web Developer Barbie. Pull my string and I say, “Standards are tough! Let’s go shopping!"

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:32:00 +0100

“Hi, I’m Web Developer Barbie. Pull my string and I say, “Standards are tough! Let’s go shopping!””

- Mark Pilgrim on Joel Spolsky

For once I seem to be ahead on my feed reading

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:03:27 +0100

For once I seem to be ahead on my feed reading

My new knife: 37 layer damascus steel — yummi

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:17:10 +0100

My new knife: 37 layer damascus steel — yummi

"The tech press, it seems, has a bad record on judging products on criteria you can’t fit on a..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:14:00 +0100

“The tech press, it seems, has a bad record on judging products on criteria you can’t fit on a feature matrix.”

- Charles Miller on the MacBook Air

Cannot uninstall because a file could not be installed (and, the...

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:49:00 +0100

Cannot uninstall because a file could not be installed (and, the uninstall did not continue but was aborted)

"They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later."

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:32:00 +0100

“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

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:30:00 +0100

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 the Ctrl key in the database, I now only need to press the Caps Lock (and at the same time I prevent the default behavior of the key - YAY!)

You can also add aditional paths that should be indexed by inserting in Filesystem.sqlite

(*) The files are located in C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application Data\Colibri

Update: You’ll need some kind of SQLite browser. I’ve used SQLiteadmin. Also, Jesper has disabled his Caps Lock key and suggests Ctrl+Scroll Lock as an alternative combination.