Diogo Gomes Blog

Squid is the defacto proxy system. Either in the lab or at home I use a transparent squid proxy in order to have a global cache system for all my devices (I really hate browser caches that take all you disk space).
For years now, in order to configure a transparent Squid proxy you had to [...]

As a switcher I’m several times faced with the awkwardness of the differences between my previous work environment (Linux) and my new one.
One of the most annoying ones has been the handling of the function keys. First I though that after a while I would get used to the mapping in OS X terminal, but [...]

Any now and then, one ends up needing to provide a Curriculum Vitae AKA Résumé (CV).

Either for applying for a job or just to be used to assert your credentials (for example while running for project fundings), you always end up needing an updated CV.
So what do most people do ?

They keep a document of [...]

Today one my friends became a switcher, thanks to a new Macbook

One of the first things to do was of course to send him links of some of the things I consider essentials to any OS X user:

Most basic widget (I don’t get why apple doesn’t ship such widget…) iStat Pro
Codecs for that I [...]

When considering a project involving a large number of source files, compilation time is always an issue.
DistCC is in these cases a very good solution.
From DistCC site:
distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results [...]