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Create a bootable OS X El Capitan installer

This is how to create a OS X El Capitan installer on a flash disk or external disk. Download OS X El Capitan from the App Store. When it finishes downloading, quit the installer. The “Install OS X El Capitan” application should be in your /Applications folder. On a side note even if you do…

September 30, 2015

Master Controller Lyrics

These are unofficial Master Controller lyrics I wrote and performed for the Pertino Summer party 2013:

March 15, 2014

Find out which program is using which port on OS X

lsof -i | grep LISTEN or lsof -i -P | grep <portnumber>

March 3, 2012

Using PHP to create a MySQL datetime

For reference $datetime = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’);

February 8, 2012

Changing Calendar Colors on a Jailbroken iPhone running iOS 5

iOS 5 changed the database that deals with Calendar colors. The value is now a hex value just like CSS uses (something like #fe6548) – Install sqlite3 via Cydia (you must have Cydia in “Developer” mode so it lists the command-line utilities) – ssh to your iPhone (as user mobile) – Run sqlite3 and open…

January 7, 2012

Twitter API, PHP precision and scientific notation

If you use PHP and the Twitter API, be on the lookout for this issue. Twitter IDs are up to 141 quadrillion (141 million billion). These Twitter IDs exceed PHP’s default precision of 14. So your Twitter IDs could be converted to scientific notation by PHP. A Twitter ID of 141675395434037249 will be stored as…

November 29, 2011

Debian squeeze libmysqlclient.so.15

Here is what you need if you have some binary on Debian squeeze which wants libmysqlclient.so.15 wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mysql-dfsg-5.0/libmysqlclient15off_5.0.51a-24+lenny5_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i libmysqlclient15off_5.0.51a-24+lenny5_i386.deb

November 18, 2011

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