It’s “hack some shit up” Friday. Everybody ready?
Have a Time Capsule or Mac OS X Server configured to provide network time machine backups? Of course you do! Let’s examine the client / server interaction.
The Time Machine preference pane provides a list of available backup volumes. This list includes local volumes as well as network volumes. [...]
The following is an IRC transcript taken from #afp548, irc.freenode.net. It chronicles the troubleshooting process of a fairly well-hidden edge case of Kerberos configuration in Mac OS X Server.
pastebin.ca was used to relay larger hunks of textual information; I’ve made local copies of the results since the pastebin pages expire in 1 month. Pastebin displays [...]
I recently had an excuse to dig into Leopard’s local KDC (LKDC), and have created a page on my wiki to hold the results. Some excerpts below:
The Local KDC (LKDC) is a Kerberos implementation that extends “single sign-on” capabilities into ad-hoc networks. The LKDC supports the AFP, CIFS, and VNC services included in Mac OS [...]
The purpose of this script is to add a bit of granularity and intelligence to the energy saver settings in Mac OS X for disk sleep.
Problem: I want to let my disks sleep, but I HATE having to wait for a spinup while I’m working.
Solution: Allow the disks to spin down only when I’m not [...]
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{1} andre@dude [~] % airport -h
Program Options:
-h print this help
-d output in comma delimited format
[...]
/usr/bin/split and /bin/cat, that is. Why is this useful information? Let’s imagine a wonderful world in which your web host gives you oodles of bandwidth and disk quota, and then one day secretly enacts a policy that disallows access to files over a certain (largish) size. Say, something like:
[Tue Jan 02 13:07:24 2007] [error] [client [...]
Dealing with CPAN has always felt a little weird. Today I found a nice shortcut for getting perl modules installed in a home directory, which is really useful for when you don’t have admin on the box, or if you simply prefer to keep your custom perl stuff all cinched up in a tidy homedir [...]
I typically keep all my digital media on either my desktop at home or my server, but I like to watch it on the laptop while reclining in my papasan chair, or perhaps just kicked back in bed. The problem is that certain files will stutter occasionally during playback, even though the bitrate of the [...]
{10} andre@werk [~] % mount | grep /Volumes/andre
afp_006Af01nOUmc001Eic06SdO0-1.2c0000ae on /Volumes/andre (nodev, nosuid, mounted by andre)
Huh? how helpful is that! How can I tell what server it came from? Yeah, I could netstat, but what if there’s a bunch of AFP sessions open?
DisplayURL to the rescue!
{12} andre@werk [~] % ~dre/bin/DisplayURL /Volumes/andre
url: “afp://idio.dreness.com/andre”
kCFURLComponentScheme: “afp” including separators: “afp://”
kCFURLComponentNetLocation: [...]
Here’s a way to let spotlight do a full content index of a read only CD. It can even persist across uses :)
#!/bin/sh
# pass in the name of the r/o volume, e.g. DiskWarriorCD
# this is proof of concept only. seriously :)
if [ ! $1 ] ; then echo “supply a volume name” ; exit 1 [...]
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The /usr/bin/defaults command gives us basic command line access to the Mac OS X preferences system. I say ‘basic’ because it provides no facility for directly operating on any keys / values that are not at the top of the heirarchy. For example:
{8} andre@werk [~] % defaults read com.apple.finder ComputerOptions
{
ComputerListViewColumnFlags = [...]
How I learned to stop worrying and image / restore those dastardly windows NTFS partitions:
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/dualboot.html
This guide will demonstrate a method for creating multi-track, multi-media, self-contained quicktime movies. A good example of this would be the presentation format where there are multiple tracks of media that need to be coordinated with specific timings. Perhaps there is a ‘talking head’ video track, and a series of slides that need to be [...]
Install XCode
Install and configure darwinports
Download the newest version from macosforge.
Add the darwinports paths to your shell config file. e.g.
PATH=”/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH”
Update the ports collection
sudo port -d selfupdate
Install rrdtool from darwinports
Execute the following to install rrdtool and all of its dependencies for you.
sudo port install rrdtool
Local user setup [...]