Yes there are loads of “how to enable Aero in Virtualbox” posts out there, but they are all long too long 
References:
1) Install GeekTool
2) Run this script….
USERNAME="me@gmail.com"
PASSWORD="password"
EMAIL=`curl -u $USERNAME:$PASSWORD --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | sed -n "s/<title>\(.*\)<\/title.*name>\(.*\)<\/name>.*/\2 - \1/p"`
if [ -n "$EMAIL" ]
then
echo "INBOX:"
echo "-----------------------------------------"
IFS=$'\n'
for i in $EMAIL
do
len=${#i}
if [ "$len" -gt 40 ]
then
echo ${i:0:37} "..."
else
echo $i
fi
done
fi
3) smile
One of the things I’d really like is process priorities for virtual box. In the forum I posted a couple of shell commands that I regularly type… which gets a bit tedious, following a recent article on lifehacker reviewing mac text expanding I’ve been prompted to automate a few things… below is a little shell script to lower the priority (renice) of all running virtual machines.
The advantage of doing this is that your host machine stays snappy, responsive and won’t get too over-loaded by jobs on your VMs!
#!/bin/bash
ps -xo pid,command | grep -v grep | grep startvm | while read line ;
do
procID=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
sudo renice +10 -p $procID
done
The above code works on a mac; although I haven’t tested it, I recon to get it running on Linux you need to update the PS command, by swapping the x for an e… like this….
#!/bin/bash
ps -eo pid,command | grep -v grep | grep startvm | while read line ;
do
procID=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
sudo renice +10 -p $procID
done
Have fun, suggestions and improvements welcome.
My daughters new iPod Shuffle was skipping tracks after only playing the first 5 to 20 seconds. After a load of googling and trial and error I worked out that my being cleaver approach of lowing the track bit rate to squeeze more tracks in was the mistake… you need to ensure that all files are at least 128k.
This post is an extension to this excellent article except with a subtle difference, I’m not interested in hacking the WP core, I’m writing a plug-in 
I’m going to assume that you’ve requested access to WordPress.org’s SVN repository, and you’ve found the admin panel and want to get your Xcode goodness hooked up to the WP SVN.
To get started create a new Empty Xcode project.
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| Xcode project chooser | Empty Project |
From the menu bar select SCM then Configure Repositories, the window select the + to add a new repo, the username & password pair are your wordpress.org credentials, you can find the URL to your SVN repo on the wordpress.org site.
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| The WP.org admin interface |
Next from the menu bar select SCM then Repositories, highlight the repo you’ve just created and choose checkout; you’re going to be asked for a folder to “save” the contents of the repo to, I chose inside my Xcode project folder.
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You now need to add those “checked out” files to you project, in the tree on the left, right/control click the blue project icon at the top and select add existing files, accept the defaults and the repo should be imported.
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| Imported Code |
These files now in the project need to be associated with the repo, this is done by highlighting the blue project icon and clicking the “Info” button, then click “Configure Roots & SCM”; click the + button and choose your repo folder (again)… the dropdown on the right should automatically select the correct SCM.
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If you now change a file / add / delete / etc it will appear under the SCM tree, you can right/control click and commit to the repo…. job done
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Very quickly you’re going to find out that you want to test your changes prior to commiting them, to do this you may want to copy your files upto a webserver…. I get Xcode to do that for me, using macfuse to mount my webroot via ssh but for this example I’ll create a directory on the desktop … you also need to create any subdirectories you may need.. I have to create “admin”.
To copy the files we’re use an Xcode target, from the menu bar choose Project then New Target then Copy Files Target, I called my new target CopyFile. Using the info button change the absolute path of the copy – e.g. /Users/Nick/Desktop/LL … now here I ran into a problem (suggestions welcome)… next I created extra copy build phases for each subdirectory. Control/right click your Target ( i.e CopyFiles) then choose Add, New Build Phase, New Copy Files Build Phase… I then set the absolute path of this “sub target” to /Users/nick/Desktop/LL/admin/ to represent my admin subdirectory.
Finally DRAG down the files into their correct target, all being well and a fair wind clicking “BUILD” will cause your files to be copied into your directory. You can now make changes, click build to test, and then commit them to subversion when you’re happy
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The red sweater post that inspires this now talks about creating a RUN shortcut to automatically open a web browser for testing, however mine didn’t work… I got this error “The program being debugged is not being run“… suggestions to fix welcome!
This hit my feed reader this morning…
Atsec information security is pleased to announce the successful Common Criteria Certification of Mac OS X Snow Leopard at EAL 3
Reference: http://www.atsec.com/us/news-atsec-apple-mac-os10-6-common-criteria-evaluation-snow-leopard-184.html
It took me a few minutes to find it, but if you want a certifiably secure mac you need to follow Apple’s Admin Guide on their Common Criteria page, I know what I’ll be doing later
It took me a couple of Googles to work this out… I have a Belkin f5u103v USB-to-Serial adapter and needed a console connection to a Cisco switch.
To get started install this driver from apple (I think it needed a reboot).
If this was successful when you connect the USB-to-Serial you’ll be asked if you want to setup a modem / network connection… say no. From a terminal you should now see a new device similar to mine…
NickBook:~ nick$ ls /dev/cu* /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem /dev/cu.PL2303-00001004 /dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync NickBook:~ nick$
The PL device disappears when I unplug the USB adapter. Next you then need a copy of minicom, I installed macports and did port install minicom.
Since I don’t want to re-invent the wheel now go to http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040521145713551 and Start at STEP 3 to configure minicom (Obviously you’ll replace /dev/cu.USA19QI191P1.1 with something similar to /dev/cu.PL2303-00001004 ) once finished you’ll be set.. happy terminal session!
I’ve imported my windows box into VirtualBox (howto) and noticed that the keyboard layout is all screwed up.
My Googling suggests that a German and Swedish bloke/bird/person have fixed this issue but no-one in the UK.
Attached is my UK Keyboard layout, also the source file so you can use microsoft keyboard layout creator to make your own.
To use, simply unzip, run setup, and then in your keyboard settings (control panel) change to “English UK – Apple MacBook Pro” … you may wish to remove the default UK keyboard to avoid confusion.
This works well for me in VirtualBox, I would expect it to work in VMWARE / Parallels but I’ve not tested it, as with everything I do YMMV