Quick summary: Download the installer from the App Store Goto Applications & right Click on Install OSX…. , select view Package Contents Under Shared support select InstallESD.dmg, hold the option key & drag it to the desktop (this will make a copy) use disk utility to format an 8GB USB stick as 1 partition, Mac […]
Using FileMerge with SVN I have been just using console diff with svn until now. But I needed to see some changes -> comparing example config files with real ones. Here is a really good article with some good scripts. http://www.defraine.net/~brunod/fmdiff/ local copy of scripts — put in /usr/local/bin either run svn like: $ svn […]
Accessing the VMWare Fusion BIOS is a pain! but the article says that you need to add the following line to your .vmx config file:bios.forceSetupOnce = “TRUE”
On the VM (Linux) Test Everything Review configurations Clean up – get rid of everything that you don’t need (for RPM based Linux): du -sh /home/*; ls -lh /tmp; yum clean all; find . -type f -size +100M -exec ls -lh {} \; Zero the drive space — on linux: cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm […]
The best way that I know to make a shared Mac / Linux disk is to format it HPFS (on the Mac). The only catch is that Linux cannot write if you Journal the disk.
Ran into a problem when I was adding a Windows 7 VM to VMWare Fusion. It could not find a driver for my NIC, even after installing VMware tools. Turns out the vmx file did not have the hardware defined: ethernet0.virtualDEV = “e1000” http://communities.vmware.com/message/1606418
http://rajeev.name/2007/11/08/integrating-linux-into-open-directory/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Open_Directory Looks like a good tutorial at:http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-volume/ http://linux.sys-con.com/node/803618 Little bit of a hint with mac network logins:http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060404091349425 Windows / Linux / Mac integrationhttp://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6&page=3
Looks like a good tutorial at:http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-volume/ http://linux.sys-con.com/node/803618 Little bit of a hint with mac network logins:http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060404091349425
Had an interesting issue today that has some significant security implications. I was working on an isolated test network. I had a DHCP assigned v4 address. This network is currently not using v6. I had been having trouble accessing a few services, but since I was setting up a new system, did not really think […]
There are some basic things you will need to do to secure a Mac. Make sure all accounts that are not needed are disabled:chsh -s /usr/bin/false _uucp Refs:http://www.macshadows.com/kb/index.php?title=Changing_your_shell_on_Mac_OS_X