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GriechenZicken Blog: Dynamic DNS: adapting noipupdater.sh for MacOS
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Jan 2, 2015. Dynamic DNS: adapting noipupdater.sh for MacOS. I often use my MacOS 10.8 laptop as a test server. In order to do this and to have other people easily accessing test services, I use a free Dynamic DNS entry from noip.com. Works like a charme when used as a service on a Mac, but the original one doesn't work with the "forced-update" feature. The reason is: the Bash of MacOS doesn't recognize the commands " tac. Oh yes...
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GriechenZicken Blog: August 2014
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Aug 29, 2014. The easy way to open a shell in the directory displayed by Finder on a Mac: Go2shell. Since I use the Terminal intensely but got annoyed of always doing cd in the directory I wanted to be in, I looked for a solution. By googleing I found a nice app called Go2Shell, which you can find here. Aug 27, 2014. WD myCloud as NAS for Apples TimeMachine. BTW: just for security reasons: make sure you have switched off the exte...
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GriechenZicken Blog: Teaching the Webserver of MacOS 10.8 to use Imagemagick
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Oct 1, 2012. Teaching the Webserver of MacOS 10.8 to use Imagemagick. The problem: MacOS 10.8 Mountain Lion screws up quite a bit of the built-in web server functionality. Since I wanted to have a fully functional web server for testing purposes I wanted to use the built-in system and didn't want to install an additional MAMP server (you can find one for free in the xampp project. Install imagemagick using Macports. In the termin...
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GriechenZicken Blog: January 2015
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Jan 2, 2015. Running noipupdater.sh as service on MacOS. This entry is the corresponding one to the adaption of the noipupdate.sh Script, where the necessary changes for MacOS bash are filed. Dynamic DNS: adapting noipupdater.sh for MacOS. I often use my MacOS 10.8 laptop as a test server. In order to do this and to have other people easily accessing test services, I use a free Dynamic DNS entry from noip.com.
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GriechenZicken Blog: Sipgate and a softphone for iPhone/iPod touch
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Oct 4, 2011. Sipgate and a softphone for iPhone/iPod touch. Since I rely on different types of DTMF transfer protokols using sipgate (either inband for my telefone system at home for remote control, or info for the sipgate answering machine) I looked for a free and reliable softphone for my iPod touch and found Media5-fone. Works out of the box, has even a setup for sipgate and all DTMF modes work perfectly out of the box.
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GriechenZicken Blog: The Lion roars tonight - MacOS 10.7 installation slightly different
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Aug 2, 2011. The Lion roars tonight - MacOS 10.7 installation slightly different. Ok, so after the hipe around Lion, my nerdy heart talked me into getting a copy of it and install it. Get the Lion compatible one.) on an external harddrive and test it! I know all these steps are time consuming, but if anything fails, you can be sure to revert to your productive system state easily. Ok, first try: removing rEFIt. According to their...
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GriechenZicken Blog: PhonerLite, VoIP softphone for Windows
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Jul 22, 2011. PhonerLite, VoIP softphone for Windows. Since I was really unhappy with X-lite, which was offered by sipgate as standard softphone, I tried to hunt down a free, compact VoIP client for Windows. I found Phoner and PhonerLite. Both programs also exist in a portable version you can find on www.pendriveapps.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Oh yes, the name of the blog: literally translated it means "greek bitche...
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GriechenZicken Blog: Packages I recommend installing on a fresh Ubuntu system
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Mar 28, 2011. Packages I recommend installing on a fresh Ubuntu system. The following list is more a reminder for myself when setting up a new system. For enabling mp3 and all the other movie formats one usually needs, including the Microsoft TrueType Fonts. The LaTeX system and not to forget the appropriate language packs, in my case: texlive-lang-german. For typesetting nice music sheets. Itself ( download here. Oh yes, the nam...
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GriechenZicken Blog: Reverting back - "Snow Lion"
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Nerd stuff connected to MacOS, Ubuntu, and sometimes Windows, if necessary. Aug 3, 2011. Reverting back - "Snow Lion". Well, I normally consider myself not being a total computer noob, but reverting back from Lion to Snow Leopard somehow went entirely wrong:. I booted Snow Leopard from my clone copy on my external harddrive, started SuperDuper! Chose "Mac HD Clone" as source (external clone) and "Macintosh HD" as target (my internal harddrive) and chose "restore". SuperDuper! I can really sleep well, sin...