December 2008
5 posts
Fontcase is Very Nice Indeed!
Fontcase (beta font-viewing) utility is GREAT! Very handsome user interface, for starters, and completely intuitive to use.
I’ve been using Lord Pixel’s UnicodeFontInfo tool, which is nice, but Fontcase seems much easier to get an overview from and then to delve deeper into a particular font.
I got on their beta by signing up on their website. I don’t know how much it will...
Right-click without Ctrl key!
I’ve been doing Ctrl-click on my Macbook Pro to simulate a right-click, but I learned yesterday that you can do this directly on the trackpad: Place two fingers on the pad and click!
Oracle XE reinstallation woes
Argggghhh! After spending most of the day trying to reproduce yesterday’s successful Oracle XE installation, I finally figured out why it wouldn’t work. The shared memory segment for Oracle wasn’t being released (I don’t know why) when the RPM was uninstalled, and each time I installed after that, the startup script refused to create a second instance of XE.
I used ipcs...
See full paths in Finder →
Nice tip from The Ultimate Apple Weblog.
In a terminal window, do:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Then quit and relaunch the Finder. You’ll start seeing paths in the title bar for Finder windows.
Change password without prompts from command line
I found this while surfing. I think it only works on RedHat Linuxes and their progeny. And of course, you need to be root. This is nice for adding a user and password from a script.
echo 'NewSecretPassword' | passwd --stdin someuser
This sets the password for ‘someuser’ to ‘NewSecretPassword’