January 21, 2014March 3, 2014Tech Netboot 10.9 on older Mac’s Keep getting no-entry signs booting from a net boot image made on a mac that boots fine from the same image when […]
January 14, 2014January 14, 2014Tech Stop Casper 9 storing scripts in the DB and Zipping non flat packages In Casper 9, the default settings are to use a JDS style store of scripts into the JSS DB and Zipping non […]
January 10, 2014January 10, 2014Tech Using PHP 5.5’s New “OPcache” Opcode Cache Zend have contributed their Zend Optimizer+ opcode cache to PHP – thanks Zend!!! (Update 19 March 2013: the renaming to “Zend OPcache” […]
January 10, 2014January 10, 2014Tech Run job after exiting an SSH session Simply use nohup to start the job and end it with an Ampersand nohup rsync -avrE /dir1 /dir2 & Then exit or […]
January 10, 2014January 10, 2014Tech Possible fix a hanging shutdown in 10.9 I keep getting my Mac hanging on shutdowns. Going throughout he logs it is trying to reconnect to AFP shares I have […]
January 7, 2014January 7, 2014Tech Safari Push Notifications in Mavericks WordPress based plugin called Roost is very good and free goto www.roost.me
December 13, 2013December 13, 2013Tech Mac OS X Always boot in Verbose mode To enable Verbose booting, you will need to launch the terminal (while logged into an account with administrative permission) and type (or copy […]
December 11, 2013Tech Trimming White Space with Sed You can use the following sed commands to trim white space from lines of text: Trim white space from both sides of […]
December 5, 2013December 11, 2013Tech Install Developer Command Line Tools in 10.9 Installing command line tools in OSX 10.9 Mavericks changes slightly than previous versions of MAC OSX , Now You Dont Have to […]
December 5, 2013Tech Stop External Accounts On Login Window for OS X defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow EnableExternalAccounts -bool false
December 4, 2013July 4, 2014Tech LaunchD item for Tomcat7 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>KeepAlive</key> <dict/> <key>Label</key> […]
December 3, 2013December 3, 2013Tech Installing Tomcat 7 On Mac OS X Tomcat 7 is the first Apache Tomcat release to support the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and EL 2.2 specifications. Please note that […]
November 5, 2013Tech 10.9: Preferences are cached This had me stumped for a while while trying to restore my preference files. So, after copying or editing a plist, for […]
November 4, 2013Tech How to create a self-signed SSL Certificate from a car and key How to create a self-signed SSL Certificate … … which can be used for testing purposes or internal usage Overview The following is an […]
October 18, 2013October 18, 2013Tech GREP multi words The grep command supports regular expression pattern. To search multiple words, use following syntax: grep ‘word1\|word2\|word3’ /path/to/file In this example, search warning, […]
October 18, 2013Tech Removeing Lines in Bash Sed sed ‘/pattern to match/d’ ./infile Awk awk ‘!/pattern/’ file > temp
October 18, 2013October 23, 2013Tech SED add newline on a Mac This is different on a Mac from other Unix systems sed ‘s/;/\’$’\n/g’ This will sub the semicolon for a newline or sed […]
October 18, 2013October 23, 2013Tech Block Adverts with a Hosts file http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
October 14, 2013October 23, 2013Tech Let VNC viewers connect to currently logged in user in OS X Want to connect with the currently logged in user when using a VNC viewer rather than seeing the Login Window (ARD 3.5/OS […]
October 11, 2013October 11, 2013Tech Make Centos Look Like RHEL edit /etc/redhat-release and remove the centos entry and add Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)