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OSX 10.5 Snippets: Block bad sites and ads via DNS

You hate ads on your favorite websites. You hate popups. You hate getting things popping up that tell you you have a virus or spyware, and if you spend (only) $59.95, this program will fix it for you. (ya right)

This can help stop this.

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OSX Snippets: VPN routing dynamically

This Snippet assumes you know how to setup a VPN Tunnel in OSX 10.4+. This Snippet shows you how to configure the VPN Tunnel to route certain IPs to certain interfaces.

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OSX Snippets: Create an ecrypted sparse disk image to store private stuff (via cli)

hdiutil create Private -type SPARSE -encryption -fs HFS+J -volname Private

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OSX Snippets: /etc/sysctl.conf extra settings

You don’t NEED them, you may not WANT them, but if you have trouble finding what you can and cannot stick in sysctl.conf, this list may help:

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OSX Snippets: Really power off your displays

This will really power off your displays, not turn to the dimmest setting:

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