“Adium” is an application which was downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

I'm regretting choosing Mac as my laptop at Google. I thought it would be cool to learn something else than Linux. I thought it would be a nice to see that famous user friendliness. Instead, I get this annoying message about Adium, that is part of the company default image. And the only way to remove it is opening the command line, and typing:

find /Applications/Adium.app/ -print0 | sudo xargs -0 xattr -d com.apple.quarantine

Is this the new, fancy Mac? I feel right back home. And ten years younger.

NoMachine NX and the ctrl key problem

I thought I give it a try. I mean, why should I develop on my machine when I could do it on the server farm?

But the ctrl key didn't work. When I pressed Ctrl-l in xterm, it just printed an "l", instead of resetting. Usually, it means xmodmap problems. But this was between Ubuntu boxen. A quick run with xev showed, that Ctrl-l did for key events: l-down, l-up, ctrl-down, ctrl-up. So it did get the key, it just delayed it somehow, until I released the l key.

The solution?

System/Preferences/Mouse/Pointers, and uncheck "Highlight the pointer when you press Ctrl"