Sounds like a B-grade mess – from the iPhone, SHSH blobs! Whats it all about? SHSH blobs Looks exciting doesn’t it! Well thats what it looks like in a text editor, its a secure encrypted file known as a key, its about 4KB in size and is also known as a HASH signature which is …
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CSS Background Submit Button in a form in Internet Explorer is dull and Grey
Does your input submit form button, beautifully styled with CSS to have a background image look like a grey gradient box in Internet Explorer 6 – 8 …. The default grey filter gradient courtsey of Internet Explorer, not a very pleasant sight. What you need to do is add an extra CSS attribute that will …
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OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion InstaDMG Build with Computer & Application Preferences | Part 3
After tutorials Part 1 & Part 2 with InstaDMG which deal with doing a basic OSX Mountain Lion 10.8 build and then introducing a user account and clearing the Set Up Assistants on boot, it’s time to tweak some preferences on OSX 10.8 for the first time boot, includin such as computer name, network, time zone …
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iNode What You Did Last Summer
How to find out how many inodes you are using on a hard disk or in a directory? Most hosting plans have a limitation on inodes – so you need to know how many and where they are being used if you need to do some slashing. To find the inode limit for your whole …
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Twenty Eleven Theme – Menu Navigation Disappearing Under You Tube Video
In WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme if you place a You Tube video directly below the main navigation, any sub nav menu will disappear behind the video not in front of it. To correct this behaviour you need to add an attribute to the embed or iframe code 1. add wmode=”opaque” in the object tag so the …
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Secure Remote SSH Connection with no passwords OSX 10.8 and Linux
How to generate public and private keys for SSH on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and then share that public key on another device and have it so that no password is prompted for a secure connection to a remote computer. First thing that you need to do on your OSX machine is to …
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Installing Homebrew on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, Package Manager for Unix Tools
The easiest way to install various Unix tools and open source software onto OS X is via a package manager or repository, unfortunately OS X doesn’t come with one, but fortunately there are some good folks that care. They come in the form of Homebrew. Homebrew isn’t the only option, also available is MacPorts and …
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Create image of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 with Local User Account using InstaDMG
Part 2 – InstaDMG Tutorial on the basics of creating an image with OSX Mountain Lion 10.8. Please refer to Part 1 to get familiar with the basics of creating a simple ‘out of the box’ InstaDMG image of OSX 10.8. Moving on from the initial image created with InstaDMG which will boot the Mac …
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