This week's mac techmail is Advanced tips for using LaunchBar shortcuts with Mac. I love LaunchBar and have talked about it before. I absolutely could not imagine life without it, and I'm still learning new things to do with it, so this tip mentions some of that stuff. Specifically, on …

This week's techmail was Managing MySQL with MySQL Workbench. I've always been a CLI guy when it comes to MySQL (as with most things: mutt, irssi, etc.), and when I needed something GUIrific I went with phpMyAdmin. However, I've looked at MySQL Workbench and I like what I'm seeing. The …

Last week's mac techmail was Protect your privacy with Little Snitch for Mac which talks about Little Snitch, one of my absolute favourite and essential mac software tools. Little Snitch is an outbound firewall, so it will alert you if any applications try to make outbound connections (anything from a …

This week's mac techmail is Upload your old email to Google Apps. If you have a Google Apps account, rather than a GMail account, you can use the Google Email Uploader tool to upload old/existing emails from a local client to Google Apps. This is great if you want …

This week's techmail is Work on remote Subversion repositories locally with Git which talks about using Git locally to interface with a remote (or local, even) subversion repository. Involved in a project that uses Subversion as their version control system, but prefer to use Git? No problem. The svn-git plugin …

This week's techmail is System monitoring with Zenoss takes complexity out of configuration (not quite sure why my original title got changed, as this one doesn't make much sense to me, but ok...). Anyways, I've been a long-time fan of Nagios, still use it, but I'm seriously considering replacing it …

Last week's mac techmail was Use Microsoft Remote Desktop from a Mac with CoRD. It talks about using the CoRD application to remotely control Windows systems (or Linux systems using xrdp). I've been told that Microsoft provides a Remote Desktop Client for the mac, but I hadn't found it at …

Last week's techmail was Using rsnapshot to back up and retain snapshots. Rsnapshot is pretty slick; the tip goes into the how and the why, but now that I've found this thing I think it's going to replace my home-brew rsync backup solution. I use subversion to retain old backups …

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I maintain a repository of packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (arguably these could/should be in EPEL but I've not had time to get into the Fedora side of things as of yet... someone will beat me with a wet noodle …

This week's mac techmail is Mounting NFS volumes in OS X which takes a bit of a tour on how to mount NFS volumes on a mac (which is not nearly as user-friendly as it should be).