Posted on Tue 18 September 2012 in Mac • Tagged with wireshark, x11, xquartz
Since Apple removed the X11 support you may faced some problems with X11 based applications. Wireshark is one of those applications which made trouble on my mac. To fix the problem you need to install XQuartz.
Download the lates Wireshark version and run it. It should come up with and …
Posted on Sat 07 July 2012 in Mac • Tagged with C++, Eclipse, Mac, mac os x, programming
This tutorial will explain how to install and use Eclipse C/C++ with Mac OS X. I wrote a tutorial for Windows 7 some time ago because you need to install some additional software to be able to compile your programs. With Mac OS X this should be more …
Posted on Sat 07 July 2012 in Mac • Tagged with boxer, emulator, games
These days I stumbled over a nice DOS emulator for Mac OS X to play some retro games called boxer.
It's free and most of the games you know from the 90's are free downloadable from the internet now.
For example I found the shareware battleship I knew from my …
Posted on Mon 28 May 2012 in Mac • Tagged with foss, free software, gimp, graffic, Mac, photo
Gimp 2.8.0 is available for Mac OS X now.
You need to have XQuartz installed on your Mac for the new Gimp version.
Why should you upgrade to Gimp 2.8 ? For me there is one major change I am waiting for years now. The one window mode …
Posted on Sun 08 January 2012 in Mac • Tagged with converting, fusion, mac os x, ova, ovf, Virtualization, vmx
VMware offers a free tool to convert virtual machine files in different formats for example from .vmx to .ovf.
This tool can be used to convert:
VMX -> OVFVMX -> OVAOVF -> VMXVMX -> vSphere
Or you can deploy a OVF directly to a ESX host. It's more powerful than it …
Posted on Sat 07 January 2012 in Mac • Tagged with Mac, rdp, tools
Searched for an alternative for Microsoft RDP client for Mac and found CoRD. It's a nice free and open source tool for Mac and works fine unitl now.
Nice features are:
I will include a more detailed review of this …
Posted on Fri 16 December 2011 in Mac • Tagged with iTerm, Terminal
If your iTerm or Terminal needs some time to start and the bash needs some time to appear if you create a new window.
Short solution is to delete the logs if they are to big:
sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl
Here the source from os x …
Posted on Tue 02 August 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Fedora, Linux, Mac, mac os x, privacy, Tor
If you want to use Tor on your Mac OS X or Linux there is a new bundle you can easy use. The bundle includes all necessary tools and a preconfigured Firefox with the necessary plugin.
Up to now the Tor Browser Bundleis still beta but for me it …
Posted on Mon 01 August 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Mac, security
Mac OS X brings a build in solution for secure erasing hard disks or usb devices. The option you should choose depends on what data where stored on the device you want to delete.
For example if you want to sell your old private hard disc with all your private …
Flash is a nice fancy web technology developed and used over years now. Never the less I try to get rid of it.
A lot of security problems are connected with the use of flash in web browsers. The performance is not the best and it looks like that the …