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The OSX file vault feature will only let you activate it on your current home folder if you have a HFS+ case-insensitive file system. It will not let you activate it on a current HFS case-sensitive.
But there is a trick, when creating a “new” clean user it will allow you to enable filevault for that [...]

First of all, what do I mean by safe sleep, fast sleep or hibernate?
Safe sleep is the way OSX sleeps to RAM and as well create a sleepimage (which is the size of your RAM). In case you run out of battery, so you can still resume from the image if the battery is dead, [...]

Suppose you have a Model called Article that contains a text field and a format field.
You would like to use haml, textile or HTML to edit your Article from the admin interface.

create_table "articles", :force => true do |t|
t.string "title"
t.text [...]

To install the great Mod_Rails on Gentoo linux it’s as easy as 5 steps.
Since you are Gentoo user, i don’t need to go to details. You know what you doing.
1. Recompile Apache non-threaded
add this to /etc/portage/package.use
www-servers/apache -threads
and this to /etc/make.conf
APACHE2_MPMS=”prefork”
2. Re emerge apache
# emerge -va apache
3. Passenger is in gentoo portage, but its [...]

The other day I had to set up a VPS machine at Slicehost for a client on a tight budget. I paid for 256mb VPS based on Gentoo, my distro of choice.
But 256MB of ram? what can you do with just 256?
Normally a default 256mb linux machine would not handle very well a set of [...]

Tommy has just released an new mysql-ruby package.
Actually 2 of them:
mysql-ruby-2.7.5 and mysql-ruby-2.8pre2
They are Ruby 1.9 compatible
Requirements
* MySQL 5.0.51a
* Ruby 1.8.6, 1.9.0
here is the link http://tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/
Great Job
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Encrypt folders in Mac OSX with encfs
OSX already include the File Vault functionality that allows you to encrypt your whole Home Folder.
Thou the storage overhead is so small, the time to encrypt it the first time is very very long.
if you have Videos, and big files, it takes even longer.
What if I don’t want to [...]