Better self-signed certs and cipher lists
Most web instructions include ancient instructions for self-signed host key generation. Here’s a Suite-B 192 (ECDHE-ECDSA-SHA384, 384-bit curve) key/cert. openssl ecparam -out service.key »
Mac VLC Demux
Because finding and discerning current, accurate VLC command line usages is crazy difficult, a basic: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC <file>.mp4 :quit »
Normalizing filenames between Linux and Mac OS data backups/mirrors
If you are mirroring data with UTF-8 international character set filenames between Linux and Mac OS X (through 10.6 at least), you may notice that »
Mac OS .CDR to .ISO
Convert Mac OS .cdr DVD/CD Master disc images to ISO with this: sudo hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o image.iso image.cdr »
using rsync with rsh instead of ssh for that extra 6-10MB/s
This procedure is for setting up rsh with rhosts to allow passwordless rsync. cpu on my fileserver was maxed out at around 20MB/s using ssh. »