Author: Lotusshaney

vsdbutil has been depreciated in favor of using the diskutil function. I would check the posix permissions, ace entries, and file flags […]

File called com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist located in /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist containing the following <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> […]

dscl . -list /Users UniqueID | sort -nr -k 2 | head -1

Unfortunately there is no direct or easy way to uninstall Java, so once installed the only way to remove it and all […]

Obtaining a Code Signing Certificate In order to sign applications, you need to have a code signing certificate in your keychain. You […]

Installing SickBeard on OS X 10.8 – JetShred Configuring SickBeard to work with SABnzbd+ – JetShred

Please note that the new Flat Package format Apple is now using differs from the below. Look Here for more details http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Ivanhoe/FLAT.html […]

These were my modifications to show Product ID:s too: margarita.html: 114     <th>Product Title</th> 115     <th>Version</th> 116     […]

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-get-complete-gnome-3-desktop-in.html

Theory and quick reference There are 3 file descriptors, stdin, stdout and stderr (std=standard). Basically you can: redirect stdout to a file […]

Variables handed to scripts pathToScript=$0 pathToPackage=$1 targetLocation=$2 targetVolume=$3 Environment Variables set for scripts INSTALLER_TEMP=/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.EDPpwt/tmp DSTVOLUME=/ TMPDIR=/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.EDPpwt/tmp DSTROOT=/ USER=test COMMAND_MODE=unix2003 SCRIPT_NAME=preinstall SHARED_INSTALLER_TEMP=/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/Cleanup At […]

In /etc/default/grub, change this line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash quiet" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text" Run sudo update-grub when done. This is easily reversed too if you need […]

Blacklisting allows Apple to stop know problem plugins and extensions from working which is great in the Home or SOHO. But in […]

First sudo passwd root Then add greeter-show-manual-login=true to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

There is a way to use the defaults command-line tool to add items to the Login Items list of the Accounts or Users & Groups System Preference panel: defaults write […]

How often have you searched for a process, using ps and grep? $ ps -ef |grep emacs peter 7107 1 1 09:10 […]

Do you want to stop the Mac Appstore from telling you an app has been updated ?  If you manage a corporate […]

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/disable-auto-updates-application-manager.html

vmmap -resident `cat /var/run/DirectoryService.pid`

http://sunkencity.org/flickredit Nice little java app that does it all for you