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Entries from May 21st, 2009

Show Desktop Command on Mac OS X

May 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Mac OS X, Tools

I’m relatively new to Mac OS X and have been struggling to find out how to quickly “Show the Desktop” to see all the icons I have in there. I have been used to clicking that little “Show Desktop” icon on the bottom left of the screen in Windows and was looking for an equivalent [...]

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PHP writeUTF implementation

May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Java, PHP

We currently have an application in Groovy/Grails/Java that we’re slowly porting to PHP (for more affordable hosting costs). We encountered a problem when we needed to convert one of our routines for writing out a binary file. We were using Java’s DataOutputStream.writeUTF(String) method and had a hard time trying to write binary data in PHP. [...]

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vi Page Up/Page down for Mac OS X

May 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Mac OS X, Tools

In case you’re wondering how to move up or down in “vi” from Mac OS X terminal: Then CTRL-B and CTRL-F should do the trick. Got this from the Mac forums at macworld.com.

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Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu 9 Downloads

May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Mac OS X, Tools

Windows 7 Release Candidate is now ready for beta testing and will be available until July 2009. Here’s what you need to have: * Internet access (to download Windows 7 RC and get updates) * A PC with these system requirements: o 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor o 1 GB [...]

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