by dcorbell | Feb 29, 2012 | Apple, Corbell Consulting, Linux, News
So simple and so useful. If you have a lot of data with ‘unusual’ date stamps, you can easily convert them to ISO compliant Calendar Date format using the built in UNIX date command. -j tells the system not to try to set the date, but to look for input...
by dcorbell | Jul 22, 2010 | Corbell Consulting, News
Since moving to version 0.6 in June 2010 vhooks are no longer available in FFmpeg. It seems like a lot of people are having trouble getting watermarks working properly with the new libavfilter method. I’ll lay out here the steps that I took to get it working...
by dcorbell | Jun 8, 2010 | Apple, Corbell Consulting, News
If you have more than one ethernet port connected during install you won’t be able to verify the serial number. The installer binds the serial number to the MAC address of one of your ethernet ports. If you have more than one active during install it will...
by dcorbell | Sep 2, 2009 | Apple, Corbell Consulting, News
Another change that Snow Leopard brings is the removal of AppleTalk printing support. It’s not that big a surprise, but it would have been nice to know about. In any case, the solution is to add the printers by IP to a Leopard or Snow Leopard server and enable...
by dcorbell | Aug 26, 2009 | Corbell Consulting, News
I was poking around on the Apple site this morning and discovered that they’ve got the Getting Started Guide and Installation & Setup Worksheet available. I copied the links for 10.5 and just changed the filename to v10.6 to see whether they were there yet...
by dcorbell | Aug 14, 2009 | Corbell Consulting, News
So I was poking around in the latest Snow Leopard build and I found something really pretty cool in Disk Utility. There’s now a NFS Mounts menu item on the File menu and it presents you with a really nice looking NFS mount manager. They’ve removed the...
