Mariano July 17th, 2008
I recently setup a new MacBook Pro for web development. While trying to mount a samba share I discovered MacFusion, an application that lets you treat various remote storage mechanisms as if they were folders on your local hard drive. MacFusion is built on top of MacFuse, which is the OSX port of the Linux based FUSE that facilitates building filesystems that run in userspace.
Mariano April 10th, 2008
I recently had to grep through a few hundred thousand log files in a single directory. The logs dated back several years and had never been organized into directories. In fact, there were so many log files that grep’ing the directory resulted in an “argument list too long” error. This error is described clearly here, and the quickest solution is to use find to pipe the filenames into grep using xargs:
find . -name "*.log" -print0 | xargs -0 grep "xyz"
Mariano April 3rd, 2008
The garage door opener is to me what the VCR was to my parents. After struggling with the garage door for a few hours, I decided I better write down some instructions.
I have a Craftsman garage door opener with three buttons on the controls. It uses rolling codes but aside from that all I can tell you is it sucks, its loud, and it never seems to do what I want it to, like opening.