Setting up GeekTool on OS X

october 12th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

GeekTool is a pretty awesome little utility for OS X; it lets you display arbitrary data on your desktop. This could be the output of a shell command, the contents of a file, or even an image. I've been using it for a while now, so I thought I'd share my setup.

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HFS+J is not Your Friend

november 14th, 2008 at 8:19 am

I tried to install Windows on my MacBook Pro with Apple's little tools, but they failed miserably. They decided that they were hungry for a delicious snack, so they ate my partition table.

I tried a couple of tools and found one that could get it back, so all was well for a while. Then I went to install Windows again and Microsoft thought it would be cute and refuse to write to the hard drive if it couldn't install to the last partition on the disk. So I repartitioned the disk and went to restore my OS X disk image to its new home.

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