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On a Mac I need to trace an app only rarely so I tend to forget the command's name. Maybe writing it down here will help me remember. It's dtruss.

It seems I won't use my Galaxy Nexus on my LTSP thin client through my new USB cradle any time soon. Probably I'll dig up the necessary LTSP modifications to make it work, but not right now. Wi-Fi works just fine. Or almost fine. For some reason if I do long data transfers, the transmit speed gradually fades away ... right until connection is lost. Try to copy a 2GB file from your Nexus to an SSH server (via some SFTP client, eg. AndFTP) and you'll most probably see what I mean.

The poster of this Apple Discussions topic experienced interference from Internet Sharing while he tried to use Web Sharing. I had it the other way around: my Internet Sharing failed to work because of Web Sharing. I use the latter for some web development and testing (mainly PHP) and today I tried to set up Internet Sharing (I wanted to share my wired connection through Wi-Fi with my mobile phone). The symptoms were these: the phone could successfully connect to the Mac's Wi-Fi network, got an IP and could even access the Apache webserver that was running on the Mac. However it could not access internet sites. Once I stopped Web Sharing, the phone could access the internet just fine. The conclusion: Internet Sharing and Web Sharing cannot work simultaneously in Mac OS X Leopard.

The question at superuser.com sounds a bit differently from what I chose for my post. It's: "How do I pass command line arguments to Dock items?". However the point is the same: how to launch an app with a commandline that is a bit different from what the app's developers had in mind.

DiffMerge is an application to visually compare and merge files within Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

• Graphically shows the changes between two files. Includes intra-line highlighting and full support for editing.
• Graphically shows the changes between 3 files. Allows automatic merging (when safe to do so) and full control over editing the resulting file.
• Performs a side-by-side comparison of 2 folders, showing which files are only present in one file or the other, as well as file pairs which are identical or different.
• Right-click on any two files in Windows Explorer to diff them immediately.
• Rulesets and options provide for customized appearance and behavior.
• Compatible with 42 different character encodings.
• Identical feature set on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

I've found that in certain cases Firefox can "hang" (wait for something and not respond ) while loading a site after a click. It turns out that another possible issue is with DNS lookups.

Apple has added TRIM support for SSD drives in the 10.6.8 patch for Snow Leopard and of course 10.7.* (Lion) has TRIM support too. Unfortunately Apple decided to enable TRIM support only for Apple shipped SSD drives, so people buying an SSD from any other manufacturer have to enable this support themselves.

Using a torrent client with lots of connections my (Snow) Leopard used to get stalled (it just hangs and no app seems to be responding, but the GUI remains mostly functional though). The solution seems to be a bit of a network tweaking.

"The Porting Team is a small community that specializes in porting Windows games and applications to the Mac with some tools we like to call wrappers (Cider, CrossOver, Wine)."

"Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose. Best of all, its free! Make ports/wrappers to share with others, make ports of your own open source, free, or commercial software, or just make a port for yourself! Why install and use Windows if you don’t need to?"