HOWTO

Some of the HOWTOs that I’ve written (or drafted) in a variety of topics, somewhat reorganized:

Mac OS X :

• Re-Enact Inception with Vagrant and LXC
• Merge Folder Trees (using the command line)
• Switch To The Mac (and no, I am not a Mac zealot)
• Write iSync Phone Plugins
• Setup GPRS/UMTS Access on a Mac
• Process Images With AppleScript and jhead
• Enable Portuguese Keyboard Layout in Apple X11 Beta
• Change Creator Types on the command line in Mac OS X
• Enable PHP on Mac OS X
• Install DokuWiki on Tiger
• Convert (and Rotate) Windows PDFs
• Disable CHAP Support In Mac OS X
• Run vmware-console Remotely With Apple X11

Windows:

• Monitor the Windows XP Firewall
• Switch Off DEP in Windows XP
• Get Windows Remote Desktop Client To Connect To Localhost
• Give Applications the Windows XP Look

UNIX (Generic Linux, Ubuntu, RedHat / Fedora and Cobalt ):

• Block Spam Referrers
• Perform Bluetooth Dial-Up In Ubuntu
• Enable Toshiba Bluetooth Support In Fedora Core 4
• Apache SSL in a nutshell
• Author PHP-Based Sites With WebDAV
• Setup/daapd Up daapd on Fedora Linux
• Setup/Rendezvous Rendezvous on Fedora Linux
• Enable VLAN support in RedHat 9.0
• Monitor/ADSL Modem Modem
• Set up Cocoon in RedHat 8.0
• Set up a Bluetooth Access Server – for your Pocket PC PC or Palm PDA
• Set Up Bluez in RedHat 8.0 – deprecated and incomplete, but still useful
• Set up USB Storage back when it wasn’t there by default…
• Install PHP 4.3.x on a RAQ550
• Upgrade a RAQ3 to RAQ550
• Graph HTTP Requests in Real Time
• Send CVSTrac Ticket Updates
• Setup logrotate
• Generate RPM files of Perl CPAN modules

Mobile Phones:

• howto/Read.Mac Mail on a SonyEricsson Phone