Monthly Archives: July 2012

Mysteries of the Macintosh Spotlight Search

Posted on 2012/07/31 by

I’d read the help file on Spotlight when I first got my Mac, and knew I could enter search criteria like “filename: invoice” to restrict my searches to filenames, and I’d always noticed that Spotlight searches mail messages too. But … Continue reading →

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Gotta love wikipedia – and ambiguity

Posted on 2012/07/30 by

When the Charlotte’s Web xkcd comic came out recently, I of course had to check the wikipedia article that it referred to, and have a read of the talk page. Here I found some that argued that the ambiguity of … Continue reading →

Posted in opinion, rant

Upgrading GNS3 WorkBench to GNS3 v0.8.3

Posted on 2012/07/17 by

If you are running GNS3 WorkBench and would like to upgrade GNS3 to the latest 0.8.3, here is how you do it. Thanks to JJ for asking. Summary: cd ~/Downloads wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/gns-3/files/GNS3/0.8.3/GNS3-0.8.3-src.zip unzip GNS3-0.8.3-src.zip rm -rf /opt/GNS3/docs/ rm -rf /opt/GNS3/qemuwrapper/ … Continue reading →

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Apple’s deeply buried airport command

Posted on 2012/07/15 by

I wanted to check which wireless AP my new Mac had connected to, so I entered the command: airport -I …but it didn’t work!  I’d become so used to using this on my MBP that I’d forgotten that this command … Continue reading →

Posted in BSSID, Mac OS X, Macintosh, Memory Jog, wifi, wireless network | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment