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Hosts File on Mac

by Ron on August 15, 2008

I can never remember the path to the hosts file on my MacBook Pro. So, here it is:
sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

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Sync iCal with Google Calendar

by Ron on July 29, 2008

Products like Spanning Sync allow you to sync your iCal with your Google calendar. Now Google has a new service called “Google Calendar CalDAV” that allows you to do the same thing.
Details at: Enable Google Calendar in iCal
I tried it and it works very good. Everything sync’d within a couple of minutes (I have a [...]

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Use cURL instead of wget on Mac OS X

by Ron on July 2, 2008

I use wget all the time on my Linux machines, but was surprised to find it missing on my MacBook Pro. Since Mac OS is based on BSD, it uses cURL instead. Here’s a good way to scrape files from a remote server.
curl -O http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21171/mp3/21171-[01-24].mp3
Man page is available at: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html

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