Stop Spotlight from indexing external hard drive

If you don’t want Spotlight to index an external driver or a USB flash drive you only have to add an empty file called “.metadata_never_index" to the root of the drive. You can do it in the terminal with the touch command. Supposing your…

Turn off S/PDIF digital audio in Ubuntu installed on Mac computers

My Ubuntu running Mac mini got the S/PDIF light always on, like this:

To deactivate it start by running this in the terminal:

sudo alsamixer

Change root’s password when sudoers file is misconfigured and sudo won’t work

If you misconfigure the sudoers file you may end up in a situation where you wouldn’t be able to use sudo. This could be easely fixed by just using su to became root and then fixing the sudoers…

Disable automatic locale variables setting in terminal emulator for Mac OS X

Terminal emulators usually send your current locale when conecting to an SSH server. I use Mac OS X in spanish and when I connected to a CentOS server my locale was automatically configured to…

Fix plugins and themes installation when WordPress asks for FTP credentials

When WordPress doesn’t have the right premissions on the wp-content folder it will ask for your FTP credentials every time you try to install/uninstall/update a plugin or a theme.

Open a file in Sublime Text 2 from command line

The idea is to create a symbolic link to the Sublime Text’s executable and put in the system’s path (execute “echo $PATH" to see your's). I used /usr/local/bin:

GNU/Linux:

sudo ln -s…