To disable open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

To enable open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores false

A restart is needed for this to take effect .

If you want to prevent .DS_Store file creation for other users on the same computer, log in to each user account and perform the steps above—or distribute a copy of your newly modified com.apple.desktopservices.plist file to the ~/Library/Preferences folder of other target users.

These steps do not prevent the Finder from creating .DS_Store files on the local volume. These steps do not prevent previously existing .DS_Store files from being copied to the remote file server. Please note that disabling the creation of .DS_Store files on remote file servers can cause unexpected behavior in the Finder (click here for an example).

To enable hover highlights open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean yes

To make it take effect you’ll need to restart the Dock so kill it or logout and back in or open a terminal and enter this command:

killall Dock

To disable hover highlights open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean no

Its like rsync mashed with subversion over the web i guess! give it a shot and help em out with making it work better!

You can get information on Dropbox here and its explained in detailed video too.

With the above two settings enabled when loading the screen sharing application you will be presented with a browser screen of the available machines. You should also get an extra toolbar in the main sharing window with options to:

To activate the bonjour browser open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1

To enable the ARD like toolbar open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing 'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' '(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'

Screen Sharing is located in:

/System/Library/CoreServices/

If this list becomes too large or contains duplicates you can remove the applications and then rebuild the list using the following command line.

To rebuild the list open a terminal and enter this command:

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Leaving these services on by default is great if you are on a lan but via the internet it may be a risk. If you use SSH to login and start or stop the services as and when you need to do GUI stuff may reduce the risk. See this article here on how to configure SSH to use v2 and public key based authentication.

To deactivate the services open a terminal and enter this command:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -deactivate -configure -access -off

To activate the services open a terminal and enter this command (please note the user name here is admin this may be different on your machine!):

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users admin -privs -all -restart -agent -menu

With the two commands above you can leave the service deactivated. When required SSH to the machine and activate it, do your stuff and then deactivate it when complete.

To stop the services open a terminal and enter this command:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -agent -stop

To restart the services open a terminal and enter this command:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart -agent

Based on this article here on apple’s website you can install, uninstall, activate, configure, and restart its components.

There may be other bundles out there for example here and these may well link into the mono runtime. But this uses the version hosted on the macromates web site and in their subversion repository and has no other dependancies.

In a terminal window enter the following commands:

mkdir -p /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
cd /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
svn co http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Review/Bundles/C%23.tmbundle
osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to reload bundles'


That should be it. The last command will make TextMate refresh the bundles list if it already open. The bundle will be placed outside the current users Library folder thus allowing other users to access the bundle.

Open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Some details here and here too.

rsync -a -u wordpress/ carlmoonan.com/ -n

The trailing -n will make i do a dry run. To do this to a remote machine you can use the following command:

rsync cmoonan@217.155.133.176:'/Users/cmoonan/Documents/svnroot/trunk/java/' ~/Documents/svnroot/trunk/java/ --progress --recursive -n --exclude-from '/Users/carl/Documents/rsync-exclude.txt' --stats -e 'ssh -p 22' -v

Get log4net binaries from here e.g. log4net 1.2.10

Add reference to log4net.dll

Add this to your app.config document:

Sample app.config

Make sure you add this if its a standard .exe

XmlConfigurator.Configure();

Add this line to your class to get a logger object:

private static readonly ILog _log = LogManager.GetLogger(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly(), Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetType());

There are some other tricks to follow if you are loading a dll or being hosted by a process but have your own config doc. More to follow shortly.