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From the terminal, after downloading Mountain Lion from the App store:
hdiutil makehybrid -iso -hfs /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mountain\ Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -o OSX-10.8.iso

Here is a quick way to create a self-signed SSL certificate with openssl and output the key/cert into PKCS#12 format. I’ve found that I’ve had to do this several times at work to get a certificate ready for a Windows machine. I got tired of looking up the procedure each time, so here goes…

# create the private key
openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048

# convert the PEM cert and key into a PKCS#12 file
openssl pkcs12 -export -out server.pfx -inkey server.key -in server.crt

Here is a quick script that will convert all js file line endings in a folder from either Windows or Unix into Unix line endings:
find . -type f -name '*.js' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/(\n|\r\n?)/\n/'

And here is the same script to convert them into Windows line endings:
find . -type f -name '*.js' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/(\n|\r\n?)/\r\n/'

I often will search Google for a keyword that I know will return the result I want in the first spot. Until now I was using Chrome to search for the keyword and then clicking on the link to go to the page.

There must be a better way!

There is!

Setup a custom search engine in Chrome like this:

1. Click the wrench icon
2. Click on Preferences
3. Click on Manage Search Engines
4. Scroll to the bottom
5. Add a new search engine with these fields:
   1. Google Instant
   2. !
   3. http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky

Bam!

Now you can do an I’m Feeling Lucky search just by hitting the exclamation point, a space, and then the keyword. Like this:

! ruby arrays

I’ve found that in Windows 7 sometimes I will randomly be unable to drag and drop files from the explorer shell.

If you ever have that problem try this to fix it:

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del.
2. Press Esc.

This worked great for me. Your results may vary!

By the way: Thanks Microsoft for yet another reason to use a Mac instead of a PC.

Source: superuser.com

I have been using Remote Desktop Connection on my Mac to connect to my new Windows 7 PC for the last couple weeks. Ever run into a problem where your RDP connection stops sharing copy and paste with your Mac?

It was driving me nuts, but thanks to this website I was able to finally find the answer:

1. Open task manager on the PC
2. Kill the rdpclip.exe process
3. Run the program rdpclip.exe from the CLI or close and reconnect the RDP session.

Update: After the break is a script that will automatically kill and restart rdpclip.exe.
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Here is an rsync command that will synchronize music stored in a Mac to a PC. It will not sync Movies or TV Shows. Just remove the –excludes if you want to sync those things.

rsync -av --force --delete --stats --size-only -e ssh --exclude="ethumbs_vista.db" --exclude="Thumbs.db" --exclude=".DS_Store" --exclude="iTunes\ Library.xml" --exclude="Mobile\ Applications/*" --exclude="Movies/*" --exclude="TV\ Shows/*" ~/Music/iTunes/* /Volumes/itunes

Thanks to MacRumors for the base of this command.

Ever wanted to take the last 1000 lines of a log file from your remote server and then copy that to your local machine to use in a nicer text editor?

Now you can! This single command will grab the last X lines from a remote file, remove any ANSI color codes, and then compress the output right on to your local computer.

Just replace the green text with your information and you’re all set.

ssh username@my.server.com "tail -n 3000 /var/log/mylogfile.log | sed -r 's/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,3}((;[0-9]{1,3})*)?)?[m|K]//g' | bzip2" > /my/local/file.log.bz2

The log will be trimmed, cleaned, and compressed all on the remote server before transport.