To change your mac address at Leopard OSX there is a little ‘trick’ that is required. The regulair command with ifconfig does not do the job.
Start your terminal and run:
Airport

Enable airport but disconnect from network.
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -z
sudo ifconfig en1 lladdr [new mac]

 
Ethernet

no Fix yet, if you know any let me know.

There is a quick and easy way to set up a proxy connection with SSH. This can be handy when the connection you’re is unsafe or you do not trust it. I normaly use ssh to tunnel single ports. But thanks to an footnote at Linux Mag dec2008 there is a better solution.
You’ll need

SSH based [...]

Last couple of weeks I’ve been busy on controlling VLC through a socket. After some time I finally figured out how to connect to VLC this way.
VideoLan is a program to mainly play video. Using it’s build in library of codecs it’s a very handy program. Especially in Linux where dependencies can be a real [...]

Another quick Ubuntu tutorial. I use wifi quite a lot so getting the Gnome Keyring message can be a real pain. In this post I explain how to get it removed.
1. Installing software
#aptitude install libpam-keyring
This program allows you to use the default users password and allow a wifi connection.
(you’ll get a message saying the package [...]

I’ve found a very nice how to browse a network using fusesmb. Because I use Xubuntu there is no Nautilus to handle all the work.
Fusesmb mounts all network shares in your workgroup in a predefined are (kind of like osX does). Thunar is able to show a tree structure. It’s also possible to use other [...]