Nice summary for just saying “Use Tunnelblick”
This howto article explains how to obtain and setup a Mac openvpn client to connect to the OpenVPN Access Server.
Source: How to connect to Access Server from a Mac
–jeroen
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OpenVPN – How to connect to Access Server from a Mac – basically says use Tunnelblick
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/18
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Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to design fonts and write smartphone apps • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11
Mac SE/30’s nine-inch screen is ideal for font-wrangling, says dev, 16Mhz 68030 not so much
Wow, back in the days I used Fontographer too, at a client that also used Ikarus, but on even older Mac hardware. But that was early 1990s (:
–jeroen
Source: Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to write smartphone apps • The Register
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Apple Floppy Emu « Blondihacks
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11
Floppy Emu « Blondihacks tested this:
Plug-and-play disk emulation for your vintage Macintosh, Apple II, or Lisa! Floppy Emu is a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple computers. It uses a removable SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive. The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk […]
–jeroen
via: This week, solid state storage for your 6502.
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Yay. My first homebrew contribution got merged. https://github.com/Homebrew/h…
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/10
Yay. My first homebrew contribution got merged. [WayBack] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/49928 – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
Source: [WayBack] Yay. My first homebrew contribution got merged.
–jeroen
(somehow this was still stuck in the drafts of my plpost queue)
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some more lsof, netstat and rpcinfo examples
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/07
Last friday I updated the examples at *nix networking – lsof: How to tell what process has a specific port open on Linux (via: Server Fault) as I needed to document some of the machines around here (so it becomes easier replacing them).
I also added some links to background information and (when I get to using it: OS X still goes without) a good iproute2 starter page.
–jeroen
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my ScanSnap ix500 has a box too…
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/04
So my ScanSnap ix500 has a box too (actually a Leitz Rotho Profiline 10 Schübe drawer). The ix500 scans double sided and takes like 2 seconds per sheet. Works through WiFi (or USB) on both PC and Mac.
This is the process:
- I scan and roughly sort the document by destination in a drawer.
- A Windows VM creates OCR PDF and puts them into the cloud.
- It gets synced to my Macs, where spotlight indexes them by content.
- Once a month I split off the parts for my bookkeeper, file important non bookkeeping stuff and shred the rest.
- I name files on a selective base (as spotlight is very good at finding the rest).
This is why I like it over scanning with your mobile phone any time:
- Always the right light conditions.
- No need to turn pages.
- No need to fiddle with oversized pages.
- Always straight scans: no correction for position, angle, keystone, etc needed.
- Real keyboard to categorise the scans.
- And most importantly, compression going wrong: Mobile Scanning Apps: A look Into The Dark Side By: Joe C. Hecht – Code4Sale.
My ix500 setup just works.
Now I need to optimise the S510 scanned files. Maybe linux – optimize PDF files (with Ghostscript or other) – Stack Overflow (from the same thread) works.
–jeroen
via: Hey everyone, we are currently preparing the next release.
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Reloop RMX-40 USB – when your Mac doesn’t recognise it.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/29
Reloop has posted the below for DJ controlers (like Contour IE, Jockey 3 ME and Digital Jockey 2 ME), but it also applies to their mixers, for instance my Reloop RMX-40 USB – Reloop (but not limited to Reloop audio equipment) in combination with either of my:
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
All these machines have USB 3.0 ports. But the workarounds below work:
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Tip: How to play a playlist one song at a time … – via: Apple Support Communities
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/26
It’s obvious if you have seen this once, but it wasn’t clear to me how to play only individual songs from a playlist. Luckily my search got this step by step guide as the first hit:
- Create the playlist.
- Uncheck all of the check boxes in the playlist (In iTunes for Windows, ctrl click one of the check marks to uncheck all of the checkboxes at once)
- Now double click (or select and press spacebar) a song to play it. It will stop when finished because there is no other song checked to be played next.
- If you want to change back to normal sequential play, ctrl click one of the check marks again to change all of the checkboxes back to the checked status.
The tip works for both Mac and Windows.
I needed this as part of a pub-quiz so I could finish the questions and answers before moving on to the next track in the playlist.
Thanks hiker1251!
–jeroen
via: Tip: How to play a playlist one song at a time … | Apple Support Communities.
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Mac: Google Chrome Helper excessive CPU usage
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/29
I’m not the only one with a Mac having issues with Google Chrome Helper CPU usage, but most of the entries are for older Chrome versions. So below are the steps I performed. There are also pros and cons are after the steps.
In chrome://settings/content, under “Plugins”, I ticked “Let me choose when to run plugin content” (it was at “Detect and run important plugin content (recommended)”. That dialog doesn’t allow you to copy it’s content, so no HTML, just this screenshot:
In chrome://plugins/ I disabled this one:
Adobe Flash Player – Version: 20.0.0.267 (Disabled)
Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0
Version: 20.0.0.267
Location: /Users/jeroenp/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/PepperFlash/20.0.0.267/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin
Type: PPAPI (out-of-process)
MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
.swf application/futuresplash Shockwave Flash
.spl Enable Always allowed to run
Pros of these settings:
- If you have a lot of tabs open (many of them suspended using The Great Suspender), then Google Chrome Helper uses far less CPU.
- Youtube doesn’t use the Flash Player any more. It now uses HTML5 which seems far more battery friendly and more responsive.
Cons of these settings:
- PDFs don’t automatically open any more, nor auto-download. You get something like this:
.
–jeroen
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Building and running upc_keys.c on Mac OS X
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/27
Even after the SpeedTouch password algorithms were disclosed 2008, ISPs keep using weak algorithms to generate their default WPA/WPA2 passwords in their routers:
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot15/woot15-paper-lorente.pdf
- http://archive.hack.lu/2015/hacklu15_enovella_reversing_routers.pdf
A short while ago, blasty published code to generate the WPA2 passwords for UPC routers. Even though Ziggo now owns UPC, a lot of this UPC equipment is still in use. I guess it won’t be for long that similar code for Ziggo routers will be published too.
The code at https://haxx.in/upc_keys.c is easy to download, build and run on a Mac OS X machine even when you don’t have Xcode installed (use the “xcode-select –install” trick):
wget https://haxx.in/upc_keys.c gcc -O2 -o upc_keys upc_keys.c -lcrypto ./upc_keys UPC0053284 5 ./upc_keys UPC0053284 24
–jeroen
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