Convert your ISO image into a Mac native disk image: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o my-file my-file.iso Insert a USB stick into your Mac and get the device path by running: diskutil list In my case it’s /dev/disk2. Please take…
VNC Viewer built into OS X
Have you ever searched for a VNC viewer app for OSX? I have, and the ones I found were not very good. It turns out there’s a built in VNC viewer in OS X (since version 10.4), used for OS…
Flushing DNS Cache on Mac OSX
In Terminal.app execute the following: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
Installing Groovy and Grails on OSX
Download the latest versions of Groovy & Grails. Currently that is groovy-binary-2.0.1.zip and grails-2.1.0.zip. Let’s unzip these archives into /usr/share; cd /usr/share sudo unzip ~/Downloads/groovy-binary-2.0.1.zip sudo unzip ~/Downloads/grails-2.1.0.zip Next we setup environments variables, which points to these paths. Adding these…
Handbrake 0.9.5 for OSX PowerPC
There is no official ppc build of Handbrake 0.9.5. Following the wiki compile guide, it is possible for compile it on your own ppc box. Or if you are to lazy, you are welcome to download the ppc binaries I…
How to convert and burn a .dmg (Mac OS X) disk image on Linux
Today I wanted to burn a .dmg file, but I didn’t have an Apple computer available. So, running Linux I started to google for a solution, and found one. You need the dmg2img tool, which can be downloaded from http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/,…
OSX Leopard 10.5.6 In VirtualBox On Linux
I have been wanting to do this for a long time; Running OS X emulated on my Linux workstation. Mostly for testing, compiling, trying out things. When someone calls and wants help setting up his Mail.app, it is very useful…