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duplicate dylib libiconv.2.dylib

When building from source on Mac OSX, I have regularly come across the problem whereby the compiler complains about duplicate dylibs. duplicate dylib libiconv.2.dylib This is due to my use of the Fink...

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ld: duplicate symbol _g_bit_nth_lsf Mac OSX Leopard/Darwin

I have had some problems installing software from source on my Max OS X Leopard machine. I should thank Martin Szomszor for his help on getting this working, but after some time faffing we finally got...

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Timemachine to a Linux Box

By default TimeMachine on Mac OSX is configured to run through the Apple Filing Protocol only. At home I run a backup server for Time Machine on one of my Linux boxes, I did this by enabling the...

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Private Browsing with Safari

I use Firefox as my primary browser, both at home and at work. So I have setup my Safari browser, as my private browser – that is sans cache, history, cookies or anything of a similar nature. I noticed...

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Signing Mail on Snow Leopard

Yay finally, come across an update to the GPGMail plugin for Mail.app 4.3 on Snow Leopard. This is the one bit of functionality which I have missed since upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and...

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HTTPS: Making more use of SSL

There has been a lot of talk about how more and more people are using their laptops on public wifi connections, and with the advent of the Firesheep plugin, there has been a number of scares around...

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Reading and Writing to a GPG encrypted file “securely”

I have been using two commands blogged about by a friend Steve Harris to store my passwords on my mac osx laptop. He illustrated two commands “useful” and “viuseful” which open an gpg encrypted file...

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