During the development of my last iPhone and iPod Touch application I had the necessity to work very much with threads. Looking for as much information as possible on Internet about the correct use of the NSThread class, I found an interesting tutorial (for beginners) which describes how to use the NSThread class to develop a small iPhone application. You can find the tutorial following this link.

Mounting an ISO image on Mac OSX does not require specific or additional software. Mac OSX, in fact, provides a tool (hdiutil) by which it is possible to manipulate disk images. For example, to mount an ISO image on Mac OSX, open your Terminal and enter the following command:

hdiutil mount /path/to/isoImage

/path/to/isoImage is the path to the ISO image to mount. After a few seconds, or better, after the checksum is completed, the mounted ISO image will appear on your Desktop and/or in Finder. For more information about hdiutil, enter the following command (in Terminal): man hdiutil.

Administering machines based on Linux, you often have the need to get a list of all users registered on the system using the command shell. The following command can be used on Linux machines to get a list of users:

cat /etc/passwd | cut -d ":" -f1

Mac OSX’s Finder by default does not show hidden files and folders and in the OSX menu ther is no option to enable this feature. I have just published a new tutorial which shows how to enable the visualization of hidden files and folders in Mac OSX’s Finder.

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I have just edited my personal website updating the list of the scientific papers published during this year (until now).

I have just published a new tutorial, based on my personal experiences, about how to convert an already existing Subversion (SVN) repository to a new Git repository.

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