Stop 10.10 hang at 50% boot
I’ve tried all of the above suggestions which did not provide a consistent fix. But this does. On the client only, you […]
Converting the Sparseimage to VMDK format
During this I will be using to Command Line utilities that are installed as part of VMware Fusion. First off, open ‘Disk […]
Create VM from DMG
Great tool for doing this vfuse https://github.com/chilcote/vfuse Note that if your going to upload this to ESXi 5.0 or you want to […]
Mac OS X Mame
Best MAME app for OSX, a little old but the version of Mame inside is 0.135 http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameosx/ MAMEOSX-0.135
Fix homebrew permissions
sudo chown -R $USER:admin /usr/local and the path in /etc/paths /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin
Apache locations in OS X
The config files are in /etc/apache2 and the modules live in /usr/libexec/apache2 . The paths in httpd.conf are relative to HTTPD_ROOT, which […]
Improve 10.10 VM performance by disabling “Beam Sync”
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/improving-yosemite-vm-performance-in-vmware-fusion/
Free Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator for OS X (kind of)
It appears that the Drobo software has a free OEM version of Xtend SAN inside it. Droboshare Dashboard for Mac includes free […]
Unable To Start Mac Os X Vm’s On Esxi Host After Uploading From Vmware Fusion 7
Unable to start Mac OS X VM’s on ESXi Host after uploading from VMWare Fusion 7 | Tips and Tricks from a […]
VPN Server Problems OSX
Having PPTP “MPPE required, but keys are not available” in Syslog Try This Using Directory Util remove vpn_yyyyyyy from the users list. […]
Reset the Open Directory administrator password in Mavericks and Yosemite
You can reset the Open Directory administrator password in Mavericks without affecting user data. You might need to do this, for example, […]
Managing the Authorization Database in OS X 10.9 and 10.10
Link here Managing the Authorization Database in OS X Mavericks | Der Flounder
Mac OS X Server: Configuring outgoing SMTP authentication for postfix
Note : Your main.cf file maybe found in /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix . Server admin may look like its erroring but it’s really written to this file. […]
CoreStorage Secret Command Overview
NOTE : 10.10 all of the CS Command’s now work so you can add a new drive to an existing CS LV […]
Clean up you Git Repo
Doing the “git gc” reduced my git repo from 17 GB to 787 MB !!! Generally, doing incremental “git gc” is the […]
Fix bash vulnerability in Mac OS X CVE-2014-627
Pre Compiled SH and BASH binaries for 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 to fix CVE-2014-627 This will install 3.2.52 build of bash […]
Mac OS X 10.10-Change Login wallpaper
Noticed how 10.10 sets the login window to the last admin users background. Want to change that so you select the background […]
Show a domains DNS TXT records
nslookup -q=txt domaintocheck
Using Gzip And Gunzip With Mysql To Import & Export Backups
I used that technique in the past, but had forgotten the exact syntax of the one liners. So let’s say you don’t […]
URL for Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App Installer
https://creative.adobe.com/products/creative-cloud