#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
to-mbox.py:  Insert line feeds to create mbox format

Usage:   ./to-mbox.py  infile outfile
"""
import sys

if len(sys.argv) != 3:
    print __doc__
    sys.exit()

out = open(sys.argv[2],"w")

start = True
for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
    if line.find("From ") == 0:
        if start:
            start = False
        else:
            out.write("\n")
        line = line.replace(" at ", "@")
    out.write(line)

out.close()

If you have a file of more than 4gb stored on file system of type “Mac OS Extended” , and if you try to move it to a FAT32 partition, it fails.

Which is fine since max file size on FAT32 file system is 4gb. What is frustrating is that Path Finder doesn’t tell you this that the file move operation is failed. On top of it, it will remove file stored on “Mac OS Extended” file system, thinking the file move operation was successful.

Uhhh….big thumbs down… I wish they fix this problem….

You can speed up this processes by configuring ssh to reuse connection to the same server if its has a connection already established.

This is a feature of OpenSSH, which I have tested on Snow Leopard and Ubuntu.

As per manual,

ControlMaster
Enables the sharing of multiple sessions over a single network connection. When set to “yes”, ssh(1) will listen for connections on a control socket specified using the ControlPath argument. Additional sessions can connect to this socket using the same ControlPath with ControlMaster set to “no” (the default). These sessions will try to reuse the master instance’s network connection rather than initiating new ones, but will fall back to connecting normally if the control socket does not exist, or is not listening.

In order to configure, create or edit ~/.ssh/config file and add following lines -

Host *
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath /tmp/%r@%h:%p

In order to test above, you can use -v while using ssh command. This will print debug information message while establishing a connection. While using ControlMaster you will notice that the there are lesser messages.

debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master

If you don’t want to reuse existing connection you can use ssh with -S none which will create a new connection.

Thanks mialemat for excellent guide.

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Tried to setup OS X on my Dell Latitude D630 and finally gave up. I don’t think its possible to have a working OS X on D630.

I had tried all three DVD’s which are available.

1. iDeneb v1.5.1 OSX10.5.7 (UPDATED VERSION) (Intel PC AMD PC) – This seemed most promising, being latest … blah blah… Didn’t worked.
2. Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd (sse2/sse3) EFI V8 – All praised this one. Didn’t worked.
3. IATKOS V7 10.5.7 – Didn’t worked.

I always ended up with

IOAPIC: Version 0×20 Vectors 0:23

I  tried to boot from external USB drives…same error. First restoring the iso’s on the external drive didn’t boot, partition type MBR tried using Disk Utility.

Had to use OSX86Tools_1.0.150 and Chameleon-1.0.11-installer to make those USB’s bootable.

Burned iDeneb and Kalyway on DVD… didn’t worked… booted without problem though unlike USB drive.

At the Darwin boot prompt entered options, -v -k -f cpus=2 etc etc still didn’t worked.

Disables multi-core in bios… change to AHCI from ATA…. didn’t worked.

Finally…. spending over two days…. my tryst with OSX86 on my Dell D630 is over.

Update: I was able to install Snow Leopard on my Dell D630.

From discussions.apple.com and from macfixit –

#diskutil list

This will list the volumes on the drive, and give you their identifiers. Locate the drive’s volume name, and get the identifier for that drive, and then run the following command to remove the journal on the device:

#/System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util -N /dev/IDENTIFIER

NOTE: The “IDENTIFIER” should be something like “disk0s3″

I again ran Repair Disk from Disk Utility and the drive was mounted… voila.. saved me a day…

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License keys don’t need to be boring text strings. All the data
contained within the license key can be kept in a beautiful image,
providing the following benefits:

1. First of all — starting from the very beginning, Mac has always
   been more about graphics than text. Using graphics allows you to
   represent the information the way you want. An image is more tangible
   that a hexadecimal sequence of seemingly random characters.

2. Drag-and-drop defines the Mac. We do not want people trying to
   type the license key by hand; images can be dragged and dropped with
   ease.

3. Since the license information is hidden in the image file,
   developers can stuff as much information as they want into it. No
   longer will developers need to avoid adding something to the generated
   license because of space constraints.

4. The license cards contain the user’s personal information, so they will be less likely to publish it on the Internet.

5. Software is intangible, and this is especially true for products
   purchased online without a shrink-wrapped box. The sequence seemingly
   random characters does not give you a feeling o that you got something
   real in return. This license card is a close as it gets:

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The Apple Blog has written up a great side-by-side comparison of the Mac
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