Tag: Mac OS X

Every restart your Mac and have it boot up only to open all the last Safari windows you had just opened? This feature – introduced a few operating systems ago…

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…

First, isntall MySQL package installer from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads DON’T DOWNLOAD THE 64-BIT VERSION!!! You must download the 32-bit version even if you have a 64-bit machine. Then I was able to…

Type this in terminal: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE KillAll Finder To hide the hidden files again: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE KillAll Finder

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…

– 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…

Key What it does C boot from optical drive drive (CD or DVD) drive N boot from NetBoot image T target disk mode, computer acts as a firewire hard drive…

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…

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