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Would running (rm deliberately broken)
sudo r m -rf /
Wipe out any USB-attached external hard drives being used for time machine backups?
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Greetings,
I am running PSPad (a Windows programming editor) on OSX/Snow Leopard using Wine 1.1.35
I want to associate various file extensions (.php, .js, .html) with PSPad.exe
OSX Finder does not allow this association -- I can only associate file types with $.app items in Applications.
How do…
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I have a web endpoint that displays an image of a string... When the following code is run (in tomcat) it spawns a java icon in the taskbar on OSX. Not sure if it is a problem, or whats going on. Looking for some sort of explination
@RequestMapping("/text/{text}")
public void textImage(HttpServletResponse…
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I have a FAT32 partition on my HDD. When using OSX, it is mounted to /Volumes/MEDIA. After a recent upgrade to Mavericks, spotlight is having trouble indexing it, eating up almost all of my system resources, and I cannot get the indexing to stop:
[jay-mba-osx ~]% sudo mdutil -v -a -i off
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Indexing…
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Hi,
I've run into some problems with how I've got user home directories set up on our system here.
Our server is an XServe, using Open Directory to manage the user accounts.
The majority of our workstations are OSX, but there are a few running Linux (Centos 5.3), and, as time goes on, we expect…
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I'm trying to connect to a webserver that's running on my mac OSX 1.6. I'm able to connect to it locally using http://127.0.0.1:8888/myapp but when I attempt to connect to it using my machine's local IP address (http://192.168.1.15:8888/myapp IP shown below) from the same machine (or another on the…
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I keep different types of data in different encrypted sparsebundle images (say, one for each client) which automatically mount upon login but can't be opened by anybody other than myself. So, after login I have a number of virtual volumes in /Volumes/ which keeps my client data both secure and organized…
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(eg linux) - command line or tool is fine. The old timemachines for local disks are just folders with softlinks, so was easy to browse
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I installed netatalk on my Ubuntu Server a few weeks ago and configured it so that I could use Timemachine from my mac to backup on a server instead of a external hard drive.
It worked really good until yesterday when I installed Samba to be able to share certain folders on my server to my mac.
Now…
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I am a sysadmin for a small group of about 7 people who prefer Apple machines for their work. These machines are currently either a) not backed up at all, or b) backed up using Retrospect(Which I'm not very fond of).
I don't really have the budget for anything fancy, and I'd like to keep it as user…
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I had a hard crash on my Mac PowerBook and when I restarted, Mail came up with only my MobileMe account still available and I cannot figure out how to restore the other eight email accounts I have.
The directories in ~/Library/Mail all seem to be there. I even did an rsync of the modified .plist…
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