Monthly Archives: August 2009

Automatic disposable email addresses for Google Apps

Posted on August 29, 2009 by matthew

Plus Suffixing There’s a pretty nifty feature with gmail that most people don’t know about. I’ve seen people reference it as the “plus hack” or “plus suffixing”. If you have username@gmail.com, you can add a “+” followed by any letters … Continue reading →

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Installing Trac on Ubuntu

Posted on August 27, 2009 by matthew

Here’s the condensed version, using the installation guide for help:

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Apache2, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X using MacPorts

Posted on August 24, 2009 by matthew

1. Install MacPorts Follow the instructions here: http://www.macports.org/install.php. 2. Install apache2 sudo port install apache2 Note that the macports instructions suggest installing the launchctl script now, but we’ll do that after mysql and php are installed. 3. Install and configure … Continue reading →

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How to pause crashplan on Mac OS X

Posted on August 17, 2009 by matthew

Crashplan on Windows has a taskbar icon that lets you put the backup daemon to sleep, but the Mac OS X port doesn’t seem to have this functionality. You can’t just kill the backup daemon process. The OS X “launchd” … Continue reading →

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