Adjust the startup chime volume of your Mac

Tue, 2013.04.23 - 22:14 — müzso
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120513121111656

To adjust the volume on your Mac's internal speakers:
  • Unplug speakers or headphones from the headphone jack.
  • Go to System Prefs > Sound, then click on the Output tab.
  • You will then see Internal Speakers (Type built-in) highlighted in the window.
  • Adjust the output volume (which also controls the chime volume) in the slider at the bottom of the window. Remember if you mute it there will be no internal speaker sound.
To set the volume for your external speakers:
  • Plug in speakers or headphones to the headphone jack.
  • Go to System Prefs > Sound >, then click on the Output tab.
  • You will then see Headphones (Type built-in) highlighted in the window.
  • Adjust the output volume (which controls the chime volume in the external speakers) with the slider at the bottom of the window. Remember if you mute it there will be no external speaker sound.

How to limit the number of records put into an INSERT statement by mysqldump

Fri, 2013.04.19 - 15:48 — müzso
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293529/how-to-deal-with-enormous-line-length...
The mysqldump manpage says:

net_buffer_length
The initial size of the buffer for client/server communication. When creating multiple-row INSERT statements (as with the --extended-insert or --opt option), mysqldump creates rows up to net_buffer_length length. If you increase this variable, you should also ensure that the net_buffer_length variable in the MySQL server is at least this large.

Changing Android system settings (eg. airplane mode radios) via commandline (on rooted phones)

Sun, 2013.04.07 - 01:36 — müzso
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7392067/android-changing-the-system-settings-...
There's this old question at stackoverflow.com about how to change system settings stored via android.provider.Settings.System using a shell command. The answer is: SQLite.

How to Play Tetris, Pong and Other Hidden Games on Your Mac

Sat, 2013.04.06 - 10:14 — müzso
http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/terminal/how-to-play-tetris-pong-and-other-hid...
"Did you know that you can play Tetris on your Mac? Of course you did, you can play lots of games. But did you know that there’s already a Tetris game built in? In fact, if you know your way around Emacs, you can play a whole bunch of awesome retro games like pong and snake."

Actually macosxhints.com had an article about this years before "the media" picked up on the topic. Smile But obviously this has been around even longer. Wink

Various reasons for the failure of an umount command

Tue, 2013.04.02 - 13:48 — müzso
http://oletange.blogspot.hu/2012/04/umount-device-is-busy-why.html
An umount command usually fails with the following message:
umount: /mnt/test: device is busy.
        (In some cases useful info about processes that use
         the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))

The referenced blog post lists most reasons for an umount to fail. The use of lsof and fuser is quite common knowledge. However the use of the -v option with lsof is not. Eg. if you try to umount an NFS exported directory and run lsof and fuser, both will produce nothing. But the umount still fails. If you run fuser with the -v option, it'll point out the culprit, namely the kernel's NFS code holding locks on the given partition (as explained here):
# fuser -v -m /mnt/test
                      USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/mnt/test:            root     kernel mount /mnt/test

animate.css - "plug&play" CSS3 animations

Fri, 2013.03.29 - 16:36 — müzso
http://daneden.me/animate/
"animate.css is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness."

ext4 partition size / free space discrepancies

Mon, 2013.03.25 - 18:38 — müzso
http://askubuntu.com/questions/48488/ext4-partition-size-free-space-discrepancie...
Up til now I thought that large discrepancies between the total size of a filesystem and the free space reported by the operating system is due to the reserved blocks. But as it turns out, there's another space hog: the inode table.

How to export the list of apps from Google Play (Store)

Sun, 2013.03.24 - 02:35 — müzso
It's quite simple. When you visit the "My Android Apps" page in the Play Store, one of the loaded URLs (https://play.google.com/xhr/myappslibrary?device=somealphanumericstring) contains the HTML code of the "Apps installed on ..." and "Other apps in my library" sections. It's a JSON formatted record and has an "installedAppsHtml" and a "notInstalledAppsHtml" element with the respective HTML codes.

How do I get a list of the packages that "provide" something (using dpkg or APT)

Fri, 2013.03.22 - 15:53 — müzso
http://serverfault.com/questions/364608/how-do-i-get-a-list-of-packages-that-pro...
If you run apt-cache showpkg on a meta package, the "Reverse Provides" section will list all of the available packages that fulfill the given role. Using awk you can easily print out the list of packages that provide the given meta package.
Eg.
$ apt-cache showpkg telnet-client | awk '{if (f==1) print $1}/^Reverse Provides:/{f=1}' | sort
heimdal-clients
inetutils-telnet
krb5-clients
telnet
telnet-ssl

ACL permission mask problems on linux

Wed, 2013.03.20 - 13:20 — müzso
Using ACLs on linux can be confusing at times. Setting ACL permissions is quite straightforward (using the setfacl commandline utility), but you might find that your permissions are not always honored. The culprit behind this is the mask.

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