Mac at Work (was FreeBSD on Dell C400, and other stuff)

I discovered something nice in MS Word today regarding track changes. For most of the documents I need to review, I have wished that there was a way to tell Word not to track formatting changes. Nobody ever cares about them and they just make it take longer to accept individual changes. Today I discovered how to batch accept/reject all of the formatting changes only. You need to show only formatting changes, then use the arrow next to the Accept/Reject change button to choose Accept/Reject all changes shown. Then show the insertions and deletions as well as comments. Voila! No more formatting changes to clutter the view or take up your time. The other cool thing my friend showed me is how to copy the tracked changes, aka markup, from one document to another. My particular use case is when migrating a document under review to a new template while preserving the change history. All that is required is to turn off track changes in both the source and destination documents, view ei

Well, I finally have a decent system in place for storing and consuming media on my macs. My wife and I each have Mac laptops. We store all our Movies on a file server now running Ubuntu 10.10 configured with netatalk, advertising itself via avahi, and now the laptops automatically mount the shares when the server is turned on. This last part was needed because I like to use iTunes to keep track of which TV episodes I've watched as well as use my iPhone to control volume and playback. She prefers to just use the Finder to navigate to the movie she wants to put on for the kids without opening iTunes. It turns out the magic recipe is to use keys for authentication with ssh, then on the server add a line like this for each machine you want to automatically mount the network share: /usr/bin/ssh user@machine.local osascript -e \'mount volume \"afp://username@hostname.local/ShareName\"\' \&\& open /Volumes/ShareName & That is all on one line. As you are

After some trial and error, I discovered the perfect settings for my Toshiba 32" TV with SwitchResX connected via VGA. Horizontal Vertical Active 1152 716 Front porch 86 36 Sync width 128 7 Back porch 298 39 Blanking 512 82 Total 1664 798 Scan rate 47.776 59.879 Positive sync Not checked Checked Now I won't miss a thing.