AANDCP IT Solutions

Category: Apple

  • Printer Control in a Managed Network Environment

    One of my customers recently complained of having to go out to the receptionist’s computer and type in an administrator password everytime her local USB printer ran out of paper or got a paper jam. I think I have a fix: Create a new group in Workgroup Manager on the server. Add the user to…

  • Ruby and MySQL on Snow Leopard Server

    http://www.icoretech.org/2009/11/installing-mysql-ruby-gem-in-snow-leopard-server/

  • Software Update AppleScript [Updated]

    Check out this site for a handy AppleScript to manage changing between Apple’s Software Update Servers and a local Software Update server running on a Mac OS X on your own network.

  • Leopard and Snow Leopard Cron Jobs

    http://www.davidlanier.com/story/cron-and-launchctl-on-mac-os-x-105-leopard

  • Snow Leopard Mail “Copy Address” Preferences

    After being frustrated about the “Copy Address” function within Mail 4 in Mac OS X 10.6, I have found a solution: http://macdaddyworld.com/2009/09/14/fixing-copy-address-in-mail-on-10-6 Basically, the trick is to go to Terminal and do the following: defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO Hope that helps someone!

  • Apple Stores offline – is Snow Leopard coming? [Updated]

    [Updated 30 minutes later:] Yep – Snow Leopard is “shipping” on August 28, 2009. Good work Apple!

  • Serial Console for Mac OS X

    I have been using “screen /dev/tty.xxxxxxxxxxx” for sometime now, but then stumbled upon this old macosxhints.com page: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061109133825654 Check it out if you still have to occasionally use a serial port.

  • Shift “S” and Mac OS X

    One of my friends just chatted me online – the “Shift-S” keyboard sequence wasn’t working. The “s” key works normally, it works with “Caps Lock, s”, but just not with either of the Shift keys. I suggested that she unplug and replug the keyboard, and eventually I resigned to even rebooting the Mac. Turns out…

  • SSH Agent and Leopard

    Found this neat summary of the problems that stem from using the SSH Agent.app on Mac OS X 10.4 and then upgrading to 10.5. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5727320 Basically, just check your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file and make sure that the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment is no longer set. Then just log out and log back in again!

  • MacBook Pro Insomnia

    I was just reading one of my favourite hard-core Mac techie blogs from Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch and I found this article… hope it helps someone that has issues with their new MacBook Pro (and I suspect it might help 15″ users as well!) http://rentzsch.com/bugs/curingMacbookPro17Insomnia All credit goes to Jonathon Rentzsch.

  • How to rebuild software RAID on Mac OS X

    Mac OS X: How to rebuild a software RAID mirror Found this great article on the Apple Knowledge Base… just in case anyone else runs into the same problems.

  • LaunchDaemons and Mac OS X – OpenVPN as an example

    LaunchDaemons are the new “init” for Mac OS X 10.4 onward. I have successfully used it to start and run OpenVPN on Mac OS X 10.4 Server. Below is the .plist file I created to start and run OpenVPN on Mac OS X 10.4 Label org.openvpn OnDemand Program /usr/local/sbin/openvpn ProgramArguments openvpn –config openvpn.conf RunAtLoad TimeOut…

  • Mac OS X clients and Windows Server 2003

    Check out this link: I didn’t have to search for 6 months, but it is still hard to found out there on the net. http://allinthehead.com/retro/218/accessing-a-windows-2003-share-from-os-x

  • Issues with BigPond Broadband Wireless Crashing on a Mac

    I have been working with a consultant who has been travelling around the country with a roadshow and hasn’t been able to get his Telstra BigPond Wireless Broadband card working on the new Telstra NextG Network. I had a look at it this morning and checked everything… very weird symptoms – the software would start…

  • Making ISOs from DMG files

    If you download a DMG file and need to write it to a CD or DVD but don’t have the necessary drive on your Mac, you can convert it to the Window’s friendly ISO format using the hdiutil command. The hdiutil command is only available in Mac OSX so these steps must be performed on…