20120118 ffmpeg on Mac Os X Lion

Now that I’m using a Mac (with Mac OS) at work I’m sorely missing truly essential tools such as ffmpeg. The only binary build I could find (without having to download fink and a ton more packages that I don’t really need) was a build from 2006. Two thousand and six! Which in ffmpeg terms [...]

20100308 Breakpoint demolog, days 32-33: moving to Windows

Since I’m going to be away from my main computer for a few days, I reformatted mrdoob’s laptop so that it could run Windows. Mind you, this is a Macbook Pro computer, which means that installing Windows is a long process, specially if you make a mistake and have to reinstall Leopard from start again! [...]

20090702 Keeping .DS_Store files at bay

.DS_Store files are to Mac what Thumbs.db are to Windows: annoying, meaningless and worst of all, ubiquitous. Whenever you browse to a folder which contains certain magic files or you do something like moving an icon to a certain position, they system will create those files in the folder. Then you happily type in git [...]

20080530 Mental note on Safari, cookies and underscores

In short: do not use underscores for your local domains. Apparently, Safari decided to be kind of very strict, which means it will show a website whose domain name contains underscores, but will dutifully ignore every request to set cookies on it. It’s very funny because if they really wanted to be strict they should [...]

20080519 Lua universal binary

Add this post, this one and this comment and you get a Lua universal build for your mac in Leopard – which works for Tiger too! Assuming you uncompressed the source code onto a folder called lua… In lua/Makefile, add a new target, macosx_ub, to the PLATS definition. It should look like this: # Convenience [...]