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Boot from CD in Open Firmware

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Sean Redmond

Ok, you’re a security conscious Mac user so you’ve enabled the Open Firmware password. Now you want to boot from a CD and just holding down the “C” key while the computer starts up won’t work. What do you do? You … Continue reading →

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Converting a database to Unicode with Perl

Posted on May 11, 2005 by Sean Redmond

It’s happened a few times—I’m transfering data from one database to another and the old one has a few accented characters in it, but came from the days before Unicode. So if you’re using Perl to pull data from the … Continue reading →

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Adding a Background to Transparent PNGs in Bulk

Posted on March 25, 2005 by Sean Redmond

So I had a bunch of PNGs with transparent backgrounds that needed instead to be white. This is the kind of thing that ImageMagick is so good for, but this turned out to be a little bit harder. I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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