iPhone and Wireless Router Config
See my other post about my D-Link DIR-655 wireless router. I wanted to connect my iPhone to it. I started with a strong password and maximum security, but it didn't want to connect. I backed down the security settings a little bit, and the iPhone connects just fine.
D-Link DIR-655: Excellent Wireless Router
I just bought a D-Link DIR-655 "Xtreme N Gigabit Router" for the house. I have two major problems: aluminum siding that seems to block my old Netgear's signal pretty well, and a MacBook Pro, which we all know has sucky Wi-Fi reception. Well, I'm blogging this from my hammock in the back yard. I call that a success.
GUC-232A Driver for MacOS X
I use this USB-to-serial adapter to talk to my Garmin eMap GPS unit. It's a little hard to find the driver for it, and all the web sites that claim to be "driver central" or some such thing are obnoxious. They want registrations, they're covered in ads, etc. Well, I hunted arond and found the driver here.
This driver worked out-of-the-box for me. I've had a few minor glitches, which you can read about below.
vgrind under MacOS X
MacOS X ships with groff. It even includes a shell script called vgrind which helps format and print C, C++, and other kinds of code. I find it really useful. However, it's broken as shipped with MacOS X. Here's a quick fix. (Updated for Tiger)
Taking over an account in MacOS X
A user recently left our company, and he didn't clean up any part his laptop. He didn't tell us his account password and he didn't create an account that we could use. We wanted to gain access to his laptop and to recover any company data before reformatting the hard drive and reassigning the laptop. I knew that the steps would be (1) boot to single user mode, and (2) clobber his password so we could use his account. I had never done that before, and a search on the net didn't turn up anything exactly as I needed. Here's the commands I did.