On the user level layer, systrace is not unlike Little Snitch, at least, to the vast majority of users. Systrace provides kernel-level filtering, which is quite advanced over that which is offered by Little Snitch, and is quite tuned for security.
Still, for the vast majority of users, I find...
I’ve cleaned up a bit of the logic to my little RAMdisk utility for OSX. It will take two arguments: a disk name, and disk size. It will then create and mount this disk to your desktop.
I use this to store my internet history and various caches, as well as when creating disk images, I like to ge...
Not unlike my own libOSXCompat, libslack provides functional routines and shims for use on systems that lack semi-standard functions. An overview of these functions is available upon the libslack.org web pages, here.
I’ve ported this set of routines to MacOS X, a binary release with manpages...
I’m trying to make my PC as robust and usable as possible. Using Cygwin as a base, it’s possible; even trivial at times to port my much-loved utilities to work under Windows.
The FTP command line client bundled with Cygwin is quite dated, and I find NcFTP to be a boon – ncftpput/ncftpget are nic...
I’ve written up a tiny little FAQ for people who use the stock BitTorrent client with OSX, and are tired of having it eat up all of their bandwidth. I discourage use of my own hack which limits BitTorrent to 1k, and a single user; that’s just not fair – most of us aren’t on 28.8k modems!
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