Author: Lotusshaney

There are a number of instances when you cannot remove a replica from Open Directory using Server Admin. This can be due […]

Segoe – Segoe UI

SendEmail is a lightweight, command line SMTP email client. If you have the need to send email from a command line, this free program […]

This section describs how Bash executes its startup files. If any of the files exist but cannot be read, Bash reports an […]

ls -la | awk ‘{ print $9 }’ will print the 9th column from the  ls command. Easier than cut -d !

Network based homes are cool, and we have written about them in the past. They can have scaleability issues though when you […]

Open Workgroup Manager and select the appropriate user group. Next go to Preferences and then click Details. Select your Safari preferences (com.apple.Safari). […]

Ok not a GUI as such but HTOP is an interactive top that is very good. Install via macports

As many of you already know Apple released iOS4. It has some great features, however iOS4 has some compatibility issues with some […]

Lotus’s chassis glue is red, an uncoloured version is available to the public as Araldite 2015

Install the “PJW Mime Config” plug-in. Then under settings will be mime types. Add “application/octet-stream” as the stream type and the extension […]

OReilly.Learning.the.bash.Shell.3rd.Edition.Mar.2005

It can appear that sometimes you remove a feed and all the files for a podcast, you sync the server and all […]

Major breakthrough. Managed to get Podcast Producer 2 to work with Ravensbourne’s LDAP Server. It turns out I need to set Basic […]

Getting error -36 on FAT32 Volumes in 10.6.2 or lots of hidden ._<filename> files on your XSan volume ? use dot_clean command […]

Took a little looking but … xattr -w -x com.apple.FinderInfo “0000000000000000000E00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000” /filetochange The 0E in that string is the Colour 0C = […]

Another little bug in PCP2. Sometimes a user wont be able to log in for no good reason. It Appears to be […]

A little tech article from the old bombich site detailing using rsync and SSH Key pairs Remote Backup of Mac OS X […]

dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u username -P password -a networkgroupname -t group admin

Just for reference so I dont forget, goto : /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/computers/ on the client and remove the plists