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Mac OS X sshfs

OSXFUSE

Working on websites on Mac can be sometimes very annoying. You are writing some piece of code and you need to transfer it every time via FTP or SFTP to a linux web server.

SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a solution to avoid this transfer layer of your develop work. By default SSHFS is not availible in Mac OS X but it can be installed

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Mac OS X lock screen

Whenever you leave your place unattended you should protect data of your computer, log out of your system account, or lock it so that anyone who gains access to your workspace will be unable to access the critical programs and data that are accessible through your account.

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Getting started with arduino Part III


Yesterday I connected my MacBook Pro to Arduino Duemilanove, and I was a little bit confused. I was not able to select the tty.usbserial Port to transfer my compiled code to arduino.

If you are using a USB Arduino you need to install a virtual COM Port driver to be able to connect MacBook to your Arduino.

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Mac OS X OpenVPN with Tunnelblick

Tunnelblick is free opensource GUI for MAC OS X its a great alternative to OpenVPN GUI.

This thread will show you how it is easy to configure and use Tunnelblick, if you used a OpenVPN GUI before you can copy your configuration and your certificate files to your MAC.

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Fix locale issues in Mac OS X

I faced a problem with locales in terminal on Mac OS X Lion. Midnight Commander didn’t want to display Cyrillic symbols in filenames and directories, on my remote media-Server I’ve been getting messages like “warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8)”. The solution is fairly simple – add these two lines to ~/.bash_profile (by default is seems to be missing, so create the file):

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ids:~ id$ cat .bash_profile 
 
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8