Boy, I wish I had found this far earlier:
- in Windows Explorer this is called cut & paste:
Ctrl+X & Ctrl+V - in Mac OS X Finder this is called copy & move items here:
Command+C & Command+Option+V
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Cut and Paste Files & Folders in Mac OS X
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/18
Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | 3 Comments »
MacBook Fn/Option/Ctrl keyboard shortcuts
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11
I know that Apple likes “design”, but boy their desing resulted into Mac OS X having lots of Fn/Option/Ctrl/Shift keyboard shortcuts.
Being a keyboard person (before the DOS era), I love to learn new keyboard shortcuts to make my life easier, while vendors are step by step hiding information about them.
I will update this table over time to reflect even better the ones I use most regularly.
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Mac OS X: Tools that enable keyboard shortcuts to move a window from one monitor to another (via: Ask Different)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10
One of the frustrating things about using a Mac, is the pain to find keyboard shortcuts for everyday tasks.
Having had RSI in the early 1990s, I’ve learned to use the keyboard for virtually everything. So I’m used to find keyboard shortcuts on most operating systems, or write scripts to make common tasks easier.
On most *nix or Windows systems, those shortcuts are either there, easy to enable or tools are there to enable them.
For OS X, somehow this seems much harder, so I’m always glad to bumped into answers to questions like
Is there a keyboard shortcut to move a window from one monitor to another? – OSX/Ask Different.
From the answers in that question it is clear this is not built-in behaviour in OS X.
Also the answers show a few tools that can (some free, some paid). So those are on my research list.
But I’m already glad to know that these tools are available.
I’m also going to dig a bit more into Hands-on with OS X Mavericks: Multiple-display support | Macworld, as I’m sure there are some subtle things with multi-monitor setups that I’ve not yet found myself.
–jeroen
via: osx – Is there a keyboard shortcut to move a window from one monitor to another? – Ask Different.
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ECC vs non-ECC RAM: The Great Debate (via: Nex7’s Blog). Use the ECC dude.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/30
Read this very nice post on Nex7’s Blog: ECC vs non-ECC RAM: The Great Debate.
There is no debate. Use ECC dude.
Use ECC especially for server side things (storage, virtualization, databases, etc) where you employ some kind of redundancy/correction in the storage (ZFS, RAID, etc) side of things.
And think about using ECC for the rest of your stuff, especially when things stay in memory for a longer period of time (in-memory processing of data can speed up things a lot, but also increase the risk).
Summary:
There is no debate here. None.
[…]
if you think non-ECC RAM can compete with ECC RAM, you are mistaken. If you think there’s a risk/reward analysis here, you’re correct. The risk is not gigantic, and there’s a real cost to alleviating that risk. You have to decide if that cost is worth alleviating that risk.
[…]
If you believe there’s a risk/reward plan where you can take the reward and apply to to mitigate the risk, you are back to being mistaken. The only benefit of non-ECC RAM (and thus the only reward in its choice over ECC RAM) is it will make the solution cheaper. There is not, however, any way (that I’ve heard of, yet) you can use the cost savings to mitigate the risk using non-ECC RAM will introduce.
[…]
If you choose to use non-ECC RAM, you open yourself up to a new vector for data corruption/loss/downtime/errors/etc,
one that could (rarely) even cause you to lose your entire filesystem, and one ZFS does not (cannot) resolve for you. Indeed, one it likely can’t even see at all. If you choose to employ non-ECC RAM, or are forced to do so because of circumstance or environmental constraint, that’s potentially understandable (and even acceptable) – but do not then attempt to validate or explain away that choice with pseudoscience or downplaying the risk you’ve added. You are using an inferior solution with an extra vector for data corruption/loss that ECC RAM solutions simply do not have. It is that simple.
[…]
Hint 3: There’s a reason we’re so gung-ho about using ECC RAM for ZFS, and it’s not just because we’re paranoid about data loss (which goes hand in hand with being a ZFS zealot, really). It is because you likely don’t realize how at risk you are. Due to the nature of how ZFS handles writes, your incoming (write) data is at risk of RAM-related bit errors for likely significantly longer than traditional storage solutions or alternative filesystems. 5, 10, 30, 60 or more seconds in a state where it is at risk.
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Some Mikrotik and RouterOS Links to get it running on ESXi for experimental purposes.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27
RouterOS runs on many kinds of hardware. Of course on the MikroTik hardware itself (which always comes with a license), but also on x86 hardware, even virtualized systems.
In that respect, it looks a bit like pfSense, or Endian, but on steroids and closed source.
Here are some links focused on MikroTik on ESXi (which is great for experimental purposes):
- I can t setup mikrotik on VMware ESXi 5 | VMware Communities, mentions IDE devices over SCSI, points to Setup Mikrotik on VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 510 x86 64 – YouTube.
- MikroTik RouterOS • View topic – Production router with ESXi ? (a few notes like: requires IDE drives, seems to work best with e1000 ethernet cards, might favour x86 over x64).
- MikroTik RouterOS • View topic – ESXI+Mikrotik+VLAN.
- MikroTik RouterOS • View topic – Bridge not forwarding traffic on ESXi host (always turn on Promiscious mode on vSwitches, there might be issues with broadcasts when you have multiple physical NICs (pNics) on the same vSwitch);
- MikroTik RouterOS • View topic – RouteOS v6 vlan’s dont’t works in ESXI [SOLVED] (VLAN might not work with e1000?).
- MikroTik RouterOS • View topic – MT on ESXi as a gateway ?! (success story).
- Virtualization possibilities in MikroTik RouterOS.
- Bridging ESX Virtual Switch Networks using MikroTik and EoIP/Vlan/VPLS | The (unofficial) Mikrotik site.
- Install vMA 5.1.0.1 on VMware ESXi 5.1 U1 «RootLinks Co., Ltd..
- mikrotik with ESXi | Syed Jahanzaib Personnel Blog to Share Knowledge !: Vritualization: 3 in 1 > Using Mikrotik + Squid Proxy + Radius on single machine to save resources :) | Syed Jahanzaib Personnel Blog to Share Knowledge !.
WOL (Wake ON LAN)
- Cool stuff you can do with your Mikrotik Router » A Day in the Life of Just Another IT Guy: WOL an ESXi machine from RouterOS).
–jeroen
via: Routers.
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Peplink multi-WAN routers and VPN solutions.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/24
Interesting: Peplink multi-WAN routers and VPN solutions.
Lets see how this compares to MikroTik stuff (:
–jeroen
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USB Typewriter — Classic Typewriters for the Digital Age (for mechanical typewriters, not electrical ones)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/19
Nicely done: the USB Typewriter — Classic Typewriters for the Digital Age, as they can do almost all keys a PC keyboard can do see the USB Typewriter — FAQ using a mechanical (not electrical!) typewriter.
Basically the opposite of the IBM Selectric Computer Terminal, the Daisy wheel printing, the IBM 1050 system, and the IBM 2741 Console.
Note the kits (there are both soldering and non-soldering versions) are mostly aimed at models that once were popular in the USA, so for manufacturers like Adler there are no guidelines (but the existing guidelines for soldering and for non-soldering probably work fine).
–jeroen
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TheBookYard : UK Apple spare parts specialist
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/16
Interesting: TheBookYard : UK Apple spare parts specialist.
via: Macbook white thingy below keyboard button is broken – Ask Different.
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Ghetto Mod: xw6400 xw6600 front case fans – HP Enterprise Business Community
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/16
Interesting: Ghetto Mod: xw6400 xw6600 front case fans – HP Enterprise Business Community.
Very silent 92mm fans for the front of an HP XW6600. Be sure to use the non PWM fan type.
–jeroen
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Keyboard shortcuts – G+/Gmail Help
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/15
I’m glad that G+ supports keyboard shortcuts out of the box:
Google+ supports the following keyboard shortcuts. To see the full list from any screen in Google+, press SHIFT+?
The list is big, but is close to for instance the GMail shortcut list.
–jeroen
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