Mac OS X Tag

Under almost all circumstances, you can just go to "About this Mac" or use the system profiler. However, very rarely I am accessing a machine remotely using SSH where I don't also have the ability to Remote Desktop or VNC to the machine. In these...

How does enable/disable File Access Control List on a volume affect whether or not you can "Use Standard POSIX behavior" or "Inherit from parent" when configuring a sharepoint (on that volume) in the AFP protocol configuration. When ACL is enabled on a volume, the options...

- make them all available to users who are using your server to Software Update...

- if you don't already have a wireless PCMCIA card for the laptop you can buy one for about $30 at most computer stores. - install the software & card into PCMCIA slot on the laptop - you should see the Airport network in your list...

KeyWhat it does Cboot from optical drive drive (CD or DVD) drive Nboot from NetBoot image Ttarget disk mode, computer acts as a firewire hard drive and can be connected to another computer, allowing you to run diagnostics X"X-Ray" key (resets startup disk selection) Command-SSingle User mode Command-VVerbose Mode Shiftsafe boot mode Option...

ADDRESS BOOKs DATA FILES ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ ABPerson.skIndex AddressBook.data AddressBook.data.beforesave AddressBook.data.previous Images ~/Library/Preferences com.apple.AddressBook.plist Address Book will exhibit funny behavior if you start messing with its data files. Sometimes it will start up with an error message Data base is corrupted. (I have seen this happen when I move over the four files in...

~/Library/Safari/ Bookmarks.plist Downloads.plist Form Values History.plist Icons - copying over these items to the new ~/Library/Safari folder seems to work ...