Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Booting into Single User Mode on MacOS X without Restarting

Nice little tip:

sudo kill 1

Thanks MacGeekery.

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Comment Spammers

This weblog presently has over 750 unwanted comment spams waiting for me to find time to delete. The Register has an interview with a comment spammer. According to him, I've brought this on myself

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Easy Money

I just found out the EFF is offering $100,000 for a prime number with 10 million digits. Somebody forgot to tell them I've got a dual G5! Small script, and I should be good to go.

Uh oh, where's the

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Take Control of Your Airport Network

I really like the idea of the Take Control series of instructional PDF documents. For $5, I purchased the Take Control of Your AirPort Network book (155 pages!), by Glenn Fleishman, and used it to

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Sport-Safe Earbuds/Headphones

While running with my iPod the other day, a drop of sweat fried one of my original iPod headphones. Could anyone recommend a set of good sport-safe earbuds or headphones? Please email me at matt

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Apple Business Plan

Apple Business Plan: "Paul Nixon seems to have nailed the business plan Apple's following. He's created a very nice infographic of the Apple products and pricing, and how they relate to

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OSX Application Help

When I'm using an OS X application, and need to refer to the Help menu, I jump for joy when I find access to a PDF user's manual, and nearly break down in tears when finding the alternative -- i.e

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Filing Email Messages within Apple Mail

I really wish I could file email messages within Apple Mail using the following sequence:

  1. Select one or more messages.
  2. Hit a command key, and be presented with an input field.
  3. Type a few letters of the
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A MacOS X System for Automating Movable Type Comment Spam Deletion

On this weblog, I use Movable Type version 2.x and the MT-Blacklist 1.6.5 plug-in for the management of comment spam. As I mentioned in this article, it can be really time consuming to manually

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Browser-Based Man Reader

Bwana. Now that is cool.

(Via my french friend, Michel.)

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