Change the Default Spell Checking Language in Mac OS X

One thing I’ve noticed on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is that even though you select “United Kingdom” for the keypad, locales etc,  the spell checking still stays in American English.  This is quite annoying, and not an obvious thing to change.. but it can be done, so that British English is the default. In …

Monitoring the Status of Multiple Linux/BSD/OSX/Unix Hosts

daz@scampi:~$ ruptime You may run multiple Linux servers, or BSD servers, or even AIX servers, and need to monitor uptime, load averages, and users logged in from one central point.  @davetaylor on Twitter asked for the output of the ruptime command, which got me looking into the command in more detail – hence this post! …