Blog up and running

Whoohooo! I just finished setting up my new blog. I think this is the fifth attempt to run a blog. But this time I promise that I’ll post more regularly. And BTW, if we consider Strike-to-Stun.net a blog (at least it uses wordpress to work) then this is the second blog I have. The reason I run this blog is simply to keep my friends updated about whats happening to me when I’m in New Zealand. Besides of that I think I will also use it as a platform for geeky stuff (computing, etc.) as well as say what I think about topics that interest me (politics etc.). As some of my friends speak German and others English I think I’ll keep this blog bilinguar. So there will be posts in German and English. Well thats it, I think there is nothing to add

Howto set shell-environment variables on Mac OSX 10.5

From time to time I want to install a command line utility and then I always have the problem how to set the correct environment variables. Ok, googling for the terms “mac osx environment variable set” usually helps. But every time I spent at least an hour playing around, searching like made before I can use my command-line stuff. The funny thing is that this has happened several times in the past and each time I somehow forgot how to define the environment variables ( that’s so me…). But this time things will be different as I write it down in my own blog. So the next time I can google myself and find out about how to do it ;).

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