Archive for the ‘Mac OS X’ Category

Clavier Mac canadien français sous Windows XP (Parallels, VMWare, Bootcamp…)

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Installer Windows XP sur un Mac, que ça soit dans Parallels Desktop, WMWare Fusion ou avec Bootcamp, c’est parfois bien pratique. Ce qui n’est pas pratique par contre, c’est d’essayer d’utiliser un clavier Mac canadien français dans Windows! Plusieurs touches sont différentes, dont les accents, plusieurs Shift-chiffres, etc.

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How to fix non-working Folder Action on an external hard disk

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I had a problem with Folder Actions: they always stopped working after a while! Quite annoying.

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Blowfish encryption plugin for Colloquy

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Lately, IRC channels where I hang started using Blowfish encryption for all messages sent to the channel. mIRC and eggdrop support Blowfish pretty easily, but there was nothing for Colloquy (the IRC client I use – Mac OS X only) to encrypt & decrypt Blowfish encrypted messages.

So I started looking for a way to encrypt & decrypt Blowfish messages using a Colloquy plugin.

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FrontRow Enabler for 10.4.8

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Ok. So I wanted to install FrontRow 1.3 on my old PowerMac G5… Downloaded FrontRow Enabler 1.3, followed instructions, rebooted… And bam, no more login screen. How fun. Checking the comments on Andrew Escobar’s page, I realized 10.4.8 wasn’t supported just yet.

Here’s how I fixed it.

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Compiling PHP 5 on Mac OS X

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Here’s how I compiled PHP 5 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

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Canadian Holidays in iCal

Thursday, June 14th, 2007


I publish and maintain a calendar of all the Canadian Holidays.
I started it in iCal.app (on my Mac) and I was publishing it using WebDAV on my web server, but I now imported it in Google Calendar, where I maintain and share it.

Here’s the link to get it in iCal format
or add it directly to your

Activism: RapidWeaver Contact Form vulnerability

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

It has come to my attention (from the RealmacSoftware support forums) that the PHP code generated by RapidWeaver (version 3.2.1 or less) is vulnerable to mail header injection attacks. I created web pages in both french and english on how to temporarily fix this vulnerability until RealmacSoftware release RapidWeaver 3.5 which is supposed to close this issue. I also did a quick search on Google to find RW-created contact forms, and I tried to exploit them. Each successful exploit was then logged and a warning email was sent to the webmaster with links to RMS forums and to the above page on how to fix this vulnerability.

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