Waterproof Your Phone

by Bruce on February 12, 2012

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Prayer Thief

by Bruce on October 15, 2011

We have assigned prayer days for each member of the family, but some kids think it’s fun to steal the prayer. The thief will start to say it just before the assigned person, and sometimes we have 2 simultaneous prayer thieves.

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This should be enabled by default in my opinion but Lion adds “terminal here” functionality as a “Service” named “New Terminal Tab at Folder” and “New Terminal at Folder”. To enable them open the Keyboard preferences pane, choose the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and then the Services item on the left. Check “New Terminal at Folder” and “New Terminal Tab at Folder” options. Now those items are available under the Services sub-menu from the Finder Menu item or a right-click on a folder. Add a keyboard shortcut by double-clicking to the right of those items. May I suggest Control-Option-Command-T for whichever one you use the most? I chose this sequence because Command-T is universally “new tab” – I realize finder doesn’t have tabs but hopefully someday we’ll get native tabs. In the mean time I use TotalFinder which has been working great and I recommend it. I avoided Command-Option-T because that sequence hides/shows the toolbar. Control-Option-Command-T seemed to not be in use in Finder since it dinged at me when I tried it (before enabling it for this use of course). Enjoy. Credit where due: Macworld

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  • Download the 32 bit flavor of “basiclite”, sqlplus, the sdk, and jdbc (if you need it) from download.oracle.com Note: as of 10.2, 64 bit works on snow leopard but not lion.
  • unzip the downloads and place them somewhere out of the way like /Applications/Develop/oracle  the files should be combined into a single folder.  In my case /Applications/Develop/oracle/instantclient_10_2
    this is a strange place, a personal quirk of mine, put it wherever you’d like, just make the appropriate adjustments below.

    unzip instantclient-basic-macosx-10.2.0.4.0.zip
    unzip instantclient-sqlplus-macosx-10.2.0.4.0.zip
    unzip instantclient-sdk-macosx-10.2.0.4.0.zip
    unzip instantclient-jdbc-macosx-10.2.0.4.0.zip
  • make links
    cd instantclient_10_2
    ln -s libclntsh.dylib.10.1 libclntsh.dylib
    ln -s libocci.dylib.10.1 libocci.dylib
  • setup some environment variables… edit your ~/.profile
    # oracle
    export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/Applications/Develop/oracle/instantclient_10_2"
    export SQLPATH="/Applications/Develop/oracle/instantclient_10_2"
    export TNS_ADMIN="/Applications/Develop/oracle/network/admin"
    #export NLS_LANG="AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8"
    export PATH=$PATH:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
  • setup a tnsnames.ora in /Applications/Develop/oracle/network (or elsewhere just fix TNS_ADMIN export line above)
  • populate it with something – you’re on your own here unless you happen to be using the ldstech oracle vm, then use this…
    xe=
      (DESCRIPTION=
        (ADDRESS_LIST=
          (ADDRESS=
            (PROTOCOL=TCP)
            (HOST=192.168.56.101)
            (PORT=1521)
          )
        )
        (CONNECT_DATA=
          (SID=xe)
        )
      )
  • restart terminal and test a connection with something like sqlplus username@sid

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Merge Left

June 29, 2011 Uncategorized

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Lucky 7′s

May 4, 2011 Funny

77,777 miles at 7:07pm.  Yes, I pulled over to take the picture… you can see the turn signal flashing.

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Edit the content of a web page in Chrome or Safari

April 5, 2011 Uncategorized

Put this command into the address bar (or javascript console) of a page you want to modify, press enter to execute it, and you are free to make changes.  Great for removing stuff you don’t want to include while printing.  Credit goes here.

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Leap Day Birthdays in iCal Workaround

February 27, 2011 Leap Year

I’m on a mission to help the world code systems that handle leap day events like birthdays.  First stop iCal.  My sons birthday only shows in iCal on leap year.  I found a workaround on the Apple support discussion forum. Remove the birthday field on the contact card. Make a new event on the 28th [...]

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Dell Monitor Bate and Switch?

January 24, 2011 Uncategorized

Wow, I wonder if this is true… http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/dell-ultrasharp-2007fp/4864-3174_7-31783700.html?tag=uoBody

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Date Along Side Time in Snow Leopard Menu Bar

January 19, 2011 Uncategorized

As of the Snow Leopard version of OSX you can easily show the date along side the time in the menu bar as is mentioned here. Ignore the many web sites showing you how to achieve this using the “Language and Text” or even older “International” system preferences pane like this one. It was great [...]

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