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remove dot-underscore files

April 10, 2008 By Matt Leave a Comment

last night i had to upload some pdf’s to a website for my wife. i was on my mac, and zipped the pdf’s an ftp’d them over to the site, dropped in a link on the webpage and called it a night. well this morning the wife gets about 50+ calls emails that the files are all messed up on the website and the zip must be corrupt. well, it was those dang dot_ files that caused a panic. most of the people her company deals with don’t have a clue about macs.

well i found this little tip on lifehacker & macworld. its a neat little terminal command that joins the dot_ files with the actual files.

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Matt

Matt is a Systems Development Director for a multinational franchise. Matt has lived and worked in Hawaii, Chicago, South Florida and currently resides outside of Atlanta. He enjoys his hobbies including Technology, Gadgets/EDC, Fountain Pens, Wetshaving, Clocks, Antiques & Coffee. He even roasts his own coffee weekly.

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force os x to empty trash

March 26, 2008 By Matt Leave a Comment

trash it sooner or later you will run into a point in time, where os x will not allow you to empty the trash. sometimes this is due to a locked file, incorrect permissions etc…

well you can use a nifty freeware apple script called trash it or you an open the terminal and use the following command.

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

make sure that the command above is typed exactly as shown or you may screw your drive up pretty bad [i.e. delete everything on your hard drive]. so use caution when using this command.

Matt

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changing permissions on the ipod touch

October 20, 2007 By Matt 3 Comments

sometimes you will need to change the permissions on the touch… this is how you do it.

1. ssh into your ipod touch w/ terminal / putty etc…
ssh root@youripodsipaddress
enter your password

2. then type the following:
chmod -R a+x /Applications/*

Matt

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change the default password for your jailbreaked ipod

October 20, 2007 By Matt Leave a Comment

its important to note that there is a possiablity that someone could (although unlikely) hack into your ipod after you jailbreak it. since the default password for “root” is “alpine”. so to be safe its easy to change and will make it a bit tougher for someone to hack your ipod and act as if they were god.

1. ssh into you ipod via terminal / putty / whatever:
ssh root@youripodipaddress
enter your password

then type: passwd
it will ask for a new password and to confirm it.

viola you have just reset your ipod touch root password.

Matt

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how to bypass the ipod touch space limit for apps

October 20, 2007 By Matt Leave a Comment

this is the method we used to bypass the space limit on the ipod for applications. it was originally posted on macrumors.com i give full credit to “sweadishviking” for this hack. I am just mirroring the data.

HOW-TO: Get around the application space limit your Touch:


NOTE: This guide assumes you have jailbreaked your iPod touch and installed the necessary Unix binaries, either manually or by using some sort of semi-automated/automated jailbreak method.
WARNING: Although this seems to work just as intended, it's not been tested for more than a number of hours, meaning that it's entirely possible it could somehow break in the future. Therefore, only do this at your own risk! (Although the risk of it bricking your iPod touch is very low, since you'll most likely keep SSH access even if screwing up)
1. SSH into your iPod touch using the SSH client of your choice; I recommend putty, which you can download at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ 
2. Move your applications folder to the /private/var folder by typing the following:

mv /Applications /private/var/Applications
3. Change directory to / by typing: cd /
4. Create a symbolic link to the Applications folders new location by typing:

ln -s /private/var/Applications Applications
5. Type the following to get a directory list of /, so we can make sure the symbolic link was created correctly by typing: ls -la
In the list that comes up, you should have an entry similar to this one:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root admin   25 Oct 12 22:31 Applications -> /private/var/Applications
6. Alright, seems like it worked.. Now all you have to do is reboot your iPod touch! Do that now.
7. To further make sure it's working correctly for you, enter the Installer app and check the available space at the bottom. It should be higher than it was previously, as you've moved away all space-intensive apps. Try installing an app larger than 1MB (MobileChat for example) to see that the amount of available space stays the same.

8. Done! Install away!

Since putty isnt available for mac, we used terminal to get in:
ssh root@youripodsip
then enter your password

its important to note that this is done via a wifi connection, and you must be on the same wifi network for it to work. you can get your ipods ip by going into:

settings >> wifi >> then taping the blue arrow next to the connection.

Matt

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