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(A post every 10 months. I hope that does not annoy you :) It will not take long to read, anyway. ) Transmission is a great BitTorrent client. It is full of features (look at the site!), including bandwidth control, and runs on every platform (Linux and Mac :P). You can choose global upload and [...]
At first I did not notice, but emptying the trash took ages, even “not securely”. Well, being the geek I am I did a quick dtruss on the Locum process, which spit out a huge list of write_nocancel syscalls. So, it seems it was actually writing stuff over the files I asked him to delete, [...]
Like it happens on Windows, when you decide to delete something OSX simply moves that file or directory to “the Trash”, which is just a hidden directory on the volume you’re deleting from. Then, you right click on the Trash icon and select “Empty trash”. This action pops up a small window like this: I [...]
Snow Leopard, ssh-agent and an everlasting memory
5 Comments Published by zen October 6th, 2009 in apple, English, Geek, SecurityIf you recently switched from an older (pre 10.6) version of OS X to the latest baby, and have the old habit of using ssh to connect around, you may have noticed a singular behaviour: while the older versions always asked you for a passphrase (you have a passphrase set on your private key, right?) [...]
(OsX) Nuova icona per le preferenze energetiche
2 Comments Published by zen August 16th, 2009 in apple, Geek, ItalianoIo me ne sono accorto solo stamattina, ma avete fatto caso che l’icona di “Energy Saver” e` stata trasformata dalla convenzionale lampadina a quella — molto piu` moderna — che ormai e` obbligatoria?
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