Slicehost added a small but useful Diagnostics tab on a slice. Currently it lists:

• If your slice is running
• If the host server your slice is on is running
• The slice's swap usage, with reads & writes a second.
• The host server's load.

You can read my original review of SliceManager here: Slicehost and SliceManger

Just another reason to never use crappy drivers, TextMate throws and error when run from the command line after Logitech Control Center 2.4 is installed. Remove the drive via the "LCC Uninstaller" and reboot. After that everything will be hunky dory again.

Note: There are three other good alternatives to that mouse driver including SteerMouse, USBOverdrive, and ControllerMate.

Introduction

In the past it has been somewhat interesting to install rmagick and imagemagick on leopard. This is because of the tiff port in MacPorts failing to compile. I prefer MacPorts for jobs like this because if there are any security vulnerabilities in ImageMagick I would easily be able to update it and any of its dependencies with MacPorts and it would not be as easy when compiling from source. That being said lets move on.

Requirements

• Fully Patch Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1
• Apple Developer Tools
• Updated Ruby on Rails
• MacPorts

In the name of performance Apple has in Tiger and Leopard decided that cacheing DNS lookups locally was a good idea. Normally it is, but when you are debugging DNS problems or changing DNS records it can be quite a pain if you forget about it. Well as long as you remember, its simple enough to clear the cache:

Tiger
lookupd -flushcache

Leopard
dscacheutil -flushcache

Source: http://www.opendns.com/support/article/209

Create a standard SSH keypair by using the ssh-keygen command. When prompted for a passphrase enter one. Copy your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to your destination's authorized_keys file. Now login to your destination from the Terminal with ssh. You will be pleasantly surprised with a pop-up box asking for the password associated with the id_rsa SSH key. It gives you the option to store this password in your Leopard keychain if you wish. This effectively takes place of using a ssh-agent to store SSH keys.