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Overriding DNS for domains in OS X Tiger

…configuration resolver #1 domain : example.com search domain[0] : mydomain.com search domain[1] : example.com nameserver[0] : 192.168.0.1 order : 200000 resolver #2 domain : mydomain.com nameserver[0] : 10.1.1.10 nameserver[1] : 10.1.1.20 order : 100400 You state “When the VPN is up, OS X Tiger will use the OpenVPN DHCP option-provided nameserver(s) for the corresponding search domains, but will use your existing nameserver(s) for everything else….

Dictation buffer updates

...ices and command line tools. This involves using the Windows clipboard as there's no way via COM to extract RTF (or anything but text or XML) from Word on Windows. Right now, I only return either RTF or plain text, not both, based on whether you have styled your Word document at all; primarily this is so that all your Mac apps don't end up with unwanted 11 point Calibri text. Figuring out whether a Word document is styled was actually quite diffic...

Google Reader replacements: broken feed handling

…ss/index.php/feed/, and even displays a combination of the old and new feeds with appropriate site titles. NewsBlur displays an ! icon that, when clicked on, pops up a resolution interface with useful options. Clicking “Fetch Feed From Website”, as recommended, causes the feed to correctly change to http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/feed/, though I repeatedly saw hangs when clicking “Retry Fetching and Parsing”. Feed Wrangler did the right thi…

Emacs activation script, take 3

…vate' 2.42s user 1.25s system 62% cpu 5.864 total % time appswitch -i com.gnu.emacs appswitch -i com.gnu.emacs 0.01s user 0.07s system 13% cpu 0.602 total % time appswitch -a Emacs appswitch -a Emacs 0.00s user 0.05s system 29% cpu 0.169 total The -i flag is slowest because it needs to construct a CFBundle; fast matching occurs on application name, path, process ID and creator. (Process ID matching would be fastest if I directly converted to…

…information about my account. It won't let me set up a Mac.com account on startup, so I enter info for another account. It complains it can't connect to the IMAP server. (But it works fine later). Complains it can't connect to the SMTP server, but doesn't let me set up authentication until later. I try to add my Mac.com account, and both accounts vanish from the Mailboxes drawer. Deleting prefs, try it again, same thing happen…

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