Published by ThePinguin on December 23rd, 2011
Today I’ve opened a rarely used file on my computer. And got the weirdest message in ages: ”file is locked because you haven’t made any changes to it recently”. After a quick search I became apparent Apple has a new feature to auto-lock files.
How to disable the feature
Goto the System Preference menu;
Click the Time Machine settings menu;
Click the [...]
Tags: auto-lock, disable, feature, file, fix, lion, lock, osx, remove, settings, time-machine
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Published by ThePinguin on November 6th, 2011
My MacBook pro with Os X Lion is very slow when coming out off suspension.
I’ve got a new Apple MacBook pro with Os X Lion last week. After the upgrade i’ve noticed a problem after suspension (sleep/ wakeup) with the internet connection. Compared with my older Apple MacBook pro (early 2008) with Snow Leopard, internet [...]
Tags: bug, error, fix, internet, issue, lag, lion, macbook, network, osx, osx lion, sleep, slow, suspension
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Published by ThePinguin on June 4th, 2011
How to fix the Google Chrome “update server not available (error: 11)” problem.
sudo rm -r /Library/Google
sudo rm -r ~/Library/Google
I suppose it’s a versioning problem, there are still old config (plist) files present on the system. By removing these, and others, Chrome can reconnect to the proper server again.
Note: I’m just using the Chrome product of [...]
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Published by ThePinguin on March 23rd, 2011
A typical VMware Virtual Machine stores data in “.vmwarevm” containers. These are directories with .vmdk images. To convert them to the VirtualBox, KVM image format the container needs to be flattened first.
Flatten vmdk
vmware-vdiskmanager -r source.vmwarevm/source.vmdk -t 0 flat.vmdk
Convert
Convert your flat image to another format.
Convert VMDK to Qemu
qemu-img convert flat.vmdk -O qcow2 target.qemu
VMDK to VDI
qemu-img convert flat.vmdk -O [...]
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Published by ThePinguin on February 11th, 2011
I’m in the process of implementing a datamanagement protocol (CDMI). And am using cURL libraries in both C/C++, and PHP. Both server, and in C written client rely on encrypted communication via TLSv1, which comes with openssl on many platforms. To make things easy cURL was used on the client side.
Recently i’ve started work on [...]
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