Time Wasted on Binaries » Code http://twob.net Tue, 11 May 2010 11:16:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-beta2-14526 How to force UTF-8 encoding in mail.app http://twob.net/code/how-to-force-utf-8-encoding-in-mailapp/ http://twob.net/code/how-to-force-utf-8-encoding-in-mailapp/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:17:51 +0000 bjorn http://twob.net/code/how-to-force-utf-8-encoding-in-mailapp/ Just open up the terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"

It was that easy. Not everyone has to do that I guess, but if you, like me, have had a problem with Outlook users asking you why you’re writing to them in Chinese, this might help get them off your back

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Update: if you’re using the Feedburner plugin for managing different flavours of RSS, be sure to update that, and change your settings accordingly. I didn’t, but now I have…

]]> http://twob.net/journal/upgraded/feed/ 1 Howto kill lookupd after editing the hosts file on OS X http://twob.net/code/howto-kill-lookupd-after-editing-the-hosts-file-on-os-x/ http://twob.net/code/howto-kill-lookupd-after-editing-the-hosts-file-on-os-x/#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:54:44 +0000 bjorn http://twob.net/journal/howto-kill-lookupd-after-editing-the-hosts-file-on-os-x/ After editing the hosts file (mate /etc/hosts), instead of restarting the computer or logging out, this line will restart lookupd:

sudo kill -HUP `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`

]]> http://twob.net/code/howto-kill-lookupd-after-editing-the-hosts-file-on-os-x/feed/ 0 Using the terminal with MAMP on OS X http://twob.net/code/using-the-terminal-with-mamp-on-os-x/ http://twob.net/code/using-the-terminal-with-mamp-on-os-x/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:15:38 +0000 bjorn http://twob.net/journal/using-the-terminal-with-mamp-on-os-x/ Recently I was going to take the promising Symfony PHP framework out for a quick test drive, but ran into trouble in the very beginning of the tutorial. I’m running MAMP for local PHP development, but the terminal is using the built-in PHP version for its command line scripting. And Symfony is all about generating models and scaffolds through the command-line in a railsy sort of way… bummer.

A quick search for led me to a discussion thread in the MAMP forum, outlining the following solution. I’ve modified it a bit, using move instead of copy, and adding some necessary SUDO instructions:

  1. Backup current php version by renaming it (optional)
    $ sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php4
  2. Create a symbolic link pointing to the PHP version supplied by MAMP
    $ sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php /usr/bin/php
  3. Done!

Now, onwards with the tutorial…

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