Category: osx Server

  • Apple pulls out of Mac World 2010 and beyond…..

    Yep, you heard right……First they pulled out of NAB (last year) and now Mac World. Why you ask?….well in their own words: Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of…

  • µTorrent (uTorrent), now available for OSX…..

    Finally. Now all of us macheads can have a (very) tiny bittorrent client too. Yes, I’m talking about the public beta of µTorrent (uTorrent) which was just opened today. Head over here and grab your copy. Sadly it’s 10.5 Intel only….

  • OSX: Time Machine backup to NAS

    Let me first state that this has been tried in my environment and it works. It might NOT work for you. Try it first and make sure your backups are clean and good. I have a OSX server (10.5.5 as of this writing) that needed to be backed up and am using a QNAP TS-409…

  • Command line Backup/Cloning/Imaging for OSX

    Okay so where do we start……yeah good old cpio and tar might be good enough for the true old timers who still back up to tape, but a lot of people these days backup to live Online/Nearline media such as disks. Here is a quick (and platform specific) reference to four backup commands that you…

  • How to make a ISO out of a DMG file under OSX

    Here is a quick command line for all you OSX ppl. If you’re ever in need of turning/converting a .dmg file into a .iso use the following command line: hdiutil makehybrid -iso -o newfile.iso yourfilename.dmg Where newfile is the name of the iso you want, and yourfilename.dmg is the dmg. Have Fun……

  • Eject your Mac’s CD tray from command line……

    Yeah I know what you’re thinking…..who the heck would need that. Well since mac’s don’t have a physical CD eject button on the front plate (ie: eject is done by eject key), if you ever need to put a CD/DVD into a machine without keyboard (server machine and/or if you’re using teleport to share a…

  • Remote OSX server install via Apple Remote Desktop or VNC….

    Came across this issue a few weeks ago and never got around to posting it until today. Yes, you can avoid using the Server Assistant program and go straight to ARD to install your server. For this to work your server and remote desktop machines need to be on the same subnet. You boot the…

  • Activate expanded Save and Print menu’s in OSX

    Here are two commands to activate the expanded Print and Save menu’s under OSX by default. You need to type these in a terminal window. 1) For expanded Print menudefaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool TRUELogoff and back in again to activate. Reissue the command replacing TRUE with FALSE to turn expanded functionality off. 2) For…

  • Quick command line trick to make your Leopard stacks look nice….

    Here is a quick command to make Leopard’s stacks behave nicer when you move your mouse across the icons. You can type these two commands in terminal to activate the feature:defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YESkillall Dockor alternatively if you don’t like the look, type the following in terminal to reset it back:defaults write com.apple.dock…

  • Access your MAC formatted disks under Windows

    Okay so it’s read-only access, but it’s Free :-). Have a look at HFSExplorer the next time you need to grab a file from that mac formatted firewire drive. It’s a little Java program that allows you full read access to any HFS+/HFSX formatted disk. It works nicely under boot camp to give you access…