Posted tagged ‘lifehacks’

About time to break the silence

2008/11/16

Several people asked what is going on with me: no blog posts for almost a month, litlle presence on Gtalk / MSN. It is simpler to answer this way that write same email over and over. Unfortunately the reason for being quiet is not that I am taking time off and enjoying myself somewhere in [...]

Easy access to log files

2008/08/25

Here is the scoop: I need to provide access to multiple log files spread across multiple directories of multiple machines. For example – the JBoss log files and nohup.out, ATG log files, and so on – so that the testers can see what happened on server side when something looks fishy on front end. One [...]

Easy way how to transfer really big files

2008/04/29

What does really big mean ? In my case few hundred megabytes, up to 1 GB. Clearly, too much for email attachments – most providers caps them at around 5-15 MB. Since we started doing screencasts, I need quite often to transfer  work in progress – screen recordings, rendered MOV files between me and my [...]

A false "hang" of Finder

2008/04/24

Yesterday, I have noticed interesting thing related to Finder and “beach ball of the death”. Suddenly, for no obvious reason, the top menu became unavailable and cursor changed to beachball every time I moved it there. The Bluetooth mouse stopped responding. Finder stopped responding. All symptoms as if Finder would hanging … The cause of [...]


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