Mac OS X tips

Håvard Pedersen

Mac OS X tips Mon, Jun 25. 2007

English Kjære dagbok Programvare

A couple of things got me stumped when migrating to Mac, so I thought I'd just do a small post on them. :-)

Backspace won't work through SSH
Insert export TERM=linux into ~/.profile. I dunno why Apple has decided to be retarded about this, but it REALLY bugged me.
System default encoding isn't UTF-8
Norwegian input language is, for some reason, not enough. But there was an extended norwegian input locale that actually changed the default encoding to real UTF-8. Again a seemingly stupid default choice from Apple. It's really about time you put the "Mac Roman" encoding to rest.
iChat can't connect to MSN
I signed up for a Jabber server with MSN transport, and it works like a charm. :-) Jabber.no comes highly recommended for norwegian users. The only downside is that you need to set the display names for the contacts manually. I just set the right address book vcard for my contacts.
I want pretty colors in the terminal
The OS X terminal is color-challenged by default. Add the following to ~/.profile: 
CLICOLOR=1
LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad
export LSCOLORS CLICOLOR
Source: Mac1.no
Finder leaves .DS_Store files all over the place on remote servers.
Just do a defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true from the terminal and reboot.
Mediacenters and home servers should never go to sleep
My mediacenter would go to sleep if I wasn't careful enough with the play button on the Apple Remote. And when I woke it up again, it wouldn't always reconnect to the WLAN. sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1 solved it. Sleep is now 100% disabled.
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