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do — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:46:17 +0100

Read-Write subscription with iCal to a CalDAV Server

do — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:37:52 +0100

Under Leopard’s iCal (version 3.0.2) you can subscribe to CalDAV servers with read-write permissions. Unfortunately doing so work a little bit different than the usual Calendar->Subscribe (Apple+Alt+S) menu action.

You have to go to iCal’s preferences (Apple+,) then open the Accounts preference pane and add a new one.

Account URL is: https://*servername*:8443/principals/users/*user*/
all other other fields should be self-explanatory

caldav-prefs-1

Mac OS X (Leopard), getting rid of unwanted languages

do — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:57:34 +0100

Ever wondered why OS X takes up a lot of space? Well, me too!
One reason is that most of the software you install has a lot of builtin languages. While being a great thing in general it is not really desired in most of the cases where, usually one uses only one language.

For Mac OS X <= 10.4 there are tools to get rid of unwanted languages via the GUI. http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ – is one of those.

Well for Leopard, nothing seems to be there right now, thus I have made this trick:

gfind / -xdev -type d -iname *.lproj -not -iname *en*.lproj -not -iname german* -not -iname *de.* -exec rm -rf {} \;

Yes, you need GNU-find! The OS X built-in find is crap! Still!

What does this line do? It deletes all folders ending on .lproj but not containing en, german and de. I want to keep English and German.

Space savings:

- before: df /
/dev/disk0s2 73138176 50306936 22319240 70% / – after: df /