Last weekend I bought an upgrade cd for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I have a 13″ MacBook (unibody). It turned out that it was impossible to upgrade my system to SL, because my harddisk wasn’t partitioned with GUID. After I repartitioned the harddisk correctly, my account was gone and all settings were lost. It took me quite some time to figure out how to fix this. Here you can read how I did it. (more…)
Archive for the ‘hacks’ Category
Upgrading to 10.6 Snow Leopard without GUID
Monday, August 31st, 2009Using subdomains for multiple sessions
Saturday, June 6th, 2009As a developer or tester you sometimes need to use multiple logins at the same time. A browser can usually handle only one login session at a time. When you loggin in another tab or window, the other session is destroyed. Logging in and out over and over again can be very annoying. The solution is simple: use subdomains!
Using a wiki as personal notebook
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009A wiki can easily be used as a personal notebook. Just think of a paper note or notebook. You want to remember something, you make a note, and you keep it somewhere. A personal and private wiki is the ideal place for keeping those notes. You can access it from everywhere, and you only need an internet connection and a browser.
The single line comment block hack
Saturday, May 16th, 2009My first “hack”, and it is a very simple one. Using a combination of single and multiline comments you can (un)comment a block of code by adding or removing a single slash.