NFS Automount with Snow Leopard

Before upgrading to Snow Leopard, I was using the NFS automount capability of Mac OS X. It was a handy way for my laptop to connect to my home NAS server (a linux box running Ubuntu).

Time Machine: Handy but Bitchy!

I have been spending the last couple of days of my spare time performing a simple operation with my mac, yet slightly more complicated than expected: merge the two partitions of my hard drive into one. This was necessary since I did a mapping, quite usual on Linux, where my…

Self-Reproducing Program in Groovy

I had this in mind since yesterday: how to write a self-reproducing program in Groovy, or a Quine, a program which prints out its source code. It’s actually a fun exercise.

Here is my version:

a = 'c = (char)39…

Annoying ‘screen’ Backspace Problem

Already a long time that this issue is bugging me. The great ‘screen’ unix command has a problem, at least on ubuntu: the backspace key produces the same effect than delete (first char on the right of the cursor gets deleted). Very annoying. Hopefully the solution is…

The Geekiest Hello World

Folks, I think that I have found (one of) the geekiest hello world out there. Implemented in Groovy using the dynamic interception of method calls. Here it goes:

class Hello {
  Object invokeMethod(String name, Object arguments) {
    System.out.println "hello…