Tag: Mac
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Just learned about /etc/resolver in OSX/BSD
I just learned that OSX/BSD has “conditional DNS” built into the os! Thanks to this post. I wish I knew about this earlier! AND I wish the same thing existed for Windows machines!
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Waking a sleeping Mac Pro upon opening a folder
Scenario I have two macs at home, a MacPro and a MacMini. The MacMini is attached to our TV. I put my MacPro to sleep when I leave for work in the morning. My wife comes home and tries to play videos for my son on the Mac Mini. The videos are actually on the…
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Apple to push virtualization of OSX?
Seems that Apple is discontinuing their XServe product. I hope this means that Apple is moving towards virtualizion of OSX in the enterprise. VDI with OSX would be sweet!
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New to my .bashrc
alias GetExtIP=”wget -q -O – checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e ‘s/.*Current IP Address: //’ -e ‘s/<.*$//’” Now I can know what my external IP is!!!
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Create a blank floppy image in Mac OSX 10.6
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1440 > floppy.img Disk Utility -> File -> Open Disk Image -> floppy.img (you will get an error like no mountable filesystems) Select floppy.img in Disk Utility, and the erase tab Select MS-DOS FAT as the format. Eject floppy.img
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Visual Studio with VMware Fusion and SSH
I work on a Mac, but by day I am a windows guy. Even though I am not a developer, I often hack about using Visual Studio on the PC. Recently, have been working more and more with Linux, and I wanted to use Visual Studio on my Mac via VMware Fusion to edit some…