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		<title>OpenBSD 4.6 is here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George T</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We knew it was coming. OpenBSD 4.6 is now available with lots of new features. Except for the several improved hardware support and other improvements, this release includes a few worth-mentioning improvements concerning the pf (Packet Filter), a default system&#8217;s software aka one of the most advanced firewall software. Enabled pf by default in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We knew it was coming. <strong>OpenBSD 4.6</strong> is now <a href="http://www.openbsd.com/46.html" target="_blank">available</a> with lots of new features. Except for the several improved hardware support and other improvements, this release includes a few worth-mentioning improvements concerning the <strong>pf</strong> (Packet Filter), a default system&#8217;s software aka <em>one of the most advanced firewall software</em>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Enabled <strong>pf</strong> by default in the rc.conf.</li>
<li>Removed <strong>pf</strong> scrub rules, and only do one kind of packet reassembly.       Rulesets with scrub rules need to be modified because of this.</li>
<li>Regular rules can now have per-rule scrub options.</li>
<li>Added new &#8220;match&#8221; keyword which only applies rule options but does       not change the current pass/block state.</li>
<li>Make all <strong>pf</strong> operations transactional to improve atomicity of reloads.</li>
<li>Stricter <strong>pf</strong> checking for ICMP and ICMPv6 packets.</li>
<li>Various improvements to <strong>pfsync</strong> to lower sync traffic bandwidth and       optionally allow active-active firewall setups.</li>
<li>Fix <strong>pf</strong> scrub max-mss for IPv6 traffic.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can find more details about all the new features shipping with this release <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/46.html#new" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Last but not least, as <em>Jeremy S. Anderson</em> said:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don&#8217;t believe this to be a coincidence.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>9 excellent Mac OS X Terminal commands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George T</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered what that little window do every time you double click the &#8220;Terminal&#8221; application in your Mac? Well, in other words, that little window unleashes the power of UNIX. If you are wondering what on earth UNIX is, you are kindly requested to spend some time reading this -quite long- article here. Anyhow, you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered what that little window do every time you double click the &#8220;Terminal&#8221; application in your Mac? Well, in other words, that little window unleashes the power of UNIX. If you are wondering what on earth UNIX is, you are kindly requested to spend some time reading this -<em>quite long</em>- article <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" target="_blank">here</a>. Anyhow, you will be amazed by what you can achieve by using some powerful commands through the Terminal. So, here are 9 excellent Mac OS X Terminal commands that I have gathered through time.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock<br />
</strong>This command will make your Dock at the bottom of your screen look like the Dock when placed at the left/right of your screen, that is 2D.</li>
<li><strong>defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES<br />
</strong>This is one is one of my favorites. It makes the Dock icons look transparent every time you <em>Hide</em> an application.</li>
<li><strong>defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText &#8220;/dev/null&#8221;</strong><br />
As you may have noticed, this one changes the login window text. More precisely it adds the text &#8220;/dev/null&#8221; at your login window somewhere between your credentials and the Apple logo. (You can change the text &#8220;/dev/null&#8221; to any text you like)</li>
<li><strong>SetFile -a V Folder<br />
</strong>Have you ever wanted to remove this folder created, by a third-party application installation proccess, in your tightly organized Documents folder inside you Home folder? This command will make <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">this folder</span> any folder invisible, which means you wont be able to see it using the Finder. However the folder will still be there fully functional. (In case you want to undo this action try <strong>SetFile -a v Folder</strong> to make that folder visible again)</li>
<li><strong>pmset -a hibernatemode 0<br />
</strong>By default, most Macs&#8217; hibernation mode is set such that when your Mac goes to sleep, contents of the RAM remain stored in the powered-on RAM in addition to written to the hard disk. Although this is considered as a &#8220;safe sleep mode&#8221; it takes quite some time for the contents of the RAM to be written to disk and the laptop to begin sleeping. By setting the hibernation mode to &#8220;0&#8243; (currently in sleep mode 3) you will decrease by far the waiting time! (Note that there is a risk of data loss in case of a power failure or in case your battery strangely falls out)</li>
<li><strong>defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1<br />
</strong>Time Machine is great. It fact, it seems greater now that you can also use it with network volumes (i.e. SMB and NFS shares) besides the old fashioned usb hard drives.</li>
<li><strong>gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf source1.pdf source2.pdf&#8230; final.pdf<br />
</strong>In short, the above command merges many pdf files into one single file. In order to use the above command you will need to install GhostScript, either from <a href="http://www.macports.org/" target="_blank">macports</a> or from elsewhere. After that, all you need to do is to  Just replace &#8220;source1.pdf&#8221;, &#8220;source2.pdf&#8221;, etc. with the names of your pdf files and set the name of your final pdf file (final.pdf)</li>
<li><strong>softwareupdate -dal<br />
</strong>Ever wondered if there is an alternative, simpler way to do the &#8220;Software Update&#8230;&#8221; for your Mac?</li>
<li><strong>diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/YourVolumeName<br />
</strong>Obviously, this one repairs the permissions of your specified volume</li>
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