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MySQL defaults to “latin1″ as its character set, but at some point, most people want to migrate to “utf8″. I realize that there are dozens of posts about how people handled this, and yet, not a single one of those worked completely for me. I wanted MySQL to use “utf8″ for the character set and [...]
I recently had an issue with my SSH connections timing out quickly. At Starbucks, I had no issues, but at home, the connection timed out faster than usual. First, I wanted to see how fast, so I wrote a short bash script that sleeps for increasing periods of time. I found that the connection timed [...]
Apple makes it easy to remap certain keys. The left Command key on my MacBook Pro’s keyboard never worked well ergonomically, so I remapped the Caps Lock (⇪) key to Command (⌘). I’ve been happy with it ever since. Frankly, I physically removed the left Command key after that to prevent my muscle memory from [...]
crontab and sudo don’t preserve the user environment by default. Here are ways to fix that:
“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and [...]
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I'm Brian Dunagan. I write Mac user interfaces at Retrospect. Before that, I wrote Windows COM/MFC and Ruby on Rails at WildPackets. I graduated from MIT back in 2004. All the code posted is under MIT license. Feel free to use it anywhere; hope you find it useful. :)
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