Hmm, time to disable Java for a while:
–jeroen
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Time to disable Java for a while: Zero-Day Season is Not Over Yet
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27
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SSH tricks
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/24
SSH tricks
Recommended reading: SSH tricks
Quote:
SSH is a protocol for authenticating and encrypting remote shell sessions.
But, using SSH for just remote shell sessions ignores 90% of what it can do.
$ ssh home -L 80:reddit.com:80This article covers less common SSH use cases, such as:
- using passwordless, key-based login;
- setting up local per-host configurations;
- exporting a local service through a firewall;
- accessing a remote service through a firewall;
- executing commands remotely from scripts;
- transfering files to/from remote machines;
- mounting a filesystem through SSH; and
- triggering admin scripts from a phone.
–jeroen
via: SSH tricks.
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Tonido as alternative to DropBox (via: Bei sensiblen Daten lieber eigene Cloud-Lösung – c’t – PresseBox)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/30
On the research list (wow, Google Translate is very accurate this time!): Tonido
More and more programs allow users to cut the cord of cloud providers like Google and Dropbox. The Tonido software is suitable for example for users who want to make sensitive customer or patient data accessible on multiple devices without outsourcing it to an external server. “Once you have installed Tonido on your PC and create an account, you can in the local network, but also on the move access to a PC or mobile devices on the complete data set”
Original German text from the mid December 2011 issue of c’t Magazin:
Immer mehr Programme ermöglichen es Anwendern, sich von Cloud-Anbietern wie Google oder Dropbox abzunabeln. Die Software Tonido eignet sich beispielsweise für Nutzer, die sensible Kunden- oder Patientendaten auf mehreren Geräten zugänglich machen wollen – ohne sie auf einen externen Server auszulagern. “Sobald man Tonido auf dem eigenen PC installiert und ein Konto angelegt hat, kann man im lokalen Netz, aber auch von unterwegs mit PC oder Mobilgeräten auf den kompletten Datenbestand zugreifen”
Thanks Noud van Kruysbergen for translating the German c’t article into Dutch.
–jeroen
via: Bei sensiblen Daten lieber eigene Cloud-Lösung – c’t – PresseBox.
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Mac OS X: Copy and paste the full path of a file in the Finder (via: Reality Distortion)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/27
FilePathToClipCMPlugin is a live saver.
- Download it.
- Open the .dmg
- Open a new Finder window
- Point it to the folder “/Library/Contextual Menu Items/” or to “˜/Library/Contextual Menu Items/” (create the latter if it does not exist).
- Drag the required plugins there
- Restart your machine (restarting the Finder did not work for me)
–jeroen
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Mac keyboard shortcut to move things to the Trash – Mac Guides: command-backspace #mac #keyboard #shortcut
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/18
Some shortcuts on the Mac are difficult for me to remember. For instance the one to move s
omething from the Finder to the Trash.
The guides on Trash at MacRumours.com to the rescue:
You delete files and folders by moving them to the Trash. You can:
Drag and drop a file on the trash icon in the dock
Control-click on a file and select “Move to Trash” from the menu
Select a file or files and use the keyboard shortcut: command-backspace
Select a file or files and choose “File > Move to Trash” from the menu bar
Notes:
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Mac & Windows – How to prevent screensaver from kicking in
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
A few tools to prevent your screensaver to run:
Windows (most seem to work with Windows 7 too)
Note: on Windows 7 this will not prevent the inactivity timer on an RDP connection!
Mac OS X
- Caffeine (it is available as an entry in the Mac App Store)
–jeroen
via: windows xp – How to prevent screensaver – Super User.
Note: no need to write it yourself :)
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Affordable MacBook Air physical USB ethernet adapter
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/01/13
A big drawback from a MacBook Air is that it only have wireless LAN/WiFi (in the form of Integrated AirPort Extreme 802.11 a/b/n/n), no physical ethernet.
Transferring large amounts of data over any WiFi is can be a pain (being slow, suffer from signal quality) and for the MacBook Air: it makes the built-in fan swirl like crazy.
Since the MacBook Air does not have USB 3.0, I went looking for a 100 Mbps USB Ethernet dongle for it, and fone the DealExtreme product #34691: USB 2.0 10/100Mbps RJ45 LAN Ethernet Network Adapter Dongle.
At a price of about USD 7 including shipping, it comes in an Apple compatible shiny white color too, nicely fitting the 4 port USB hub (DealExtreme # 45773) on the right :)
Even better: it works like a charm!
Note that first need to download and install the ASIX AX88772B drivers first. Choose the Apple Mac OSX 10.4 to 10.7 Driver for x86 and Power PC download package labelled “For Apple x86/Power PC, 32-bit/64-bit platforms”.
The install tells you to reboot at the end, but no need for that: as soon as the install finishes, the USB Ethernet dongle works. And it is fast too: 12 megabyte/second over a 100 megabit cable is fast!
In the readme of those drivers, it also mentions the AX88178, which is capable of gigabit (there is a separate AX88178 driver download page and Mac OS X download package).
NB: the cool thing about both these ASIX chipsets is that they are supported on a broad range of platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows CE, Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2000) and bit sizes (32-bit and 64-bit).
For even faster transfers, I might try the DealExtreme product #15336: Arkview USB 2.0 1000Mbs Gigabit Ethernet LAN Network Adapter.
It is slightly less than USD 20, and user Janipro indicates it is based on the ASIX AX88178 chip at the DealExtreme forum.
On the other hand: I might not, as for more than twice the price, user cyberic mentions in the same forum thread it is only about twice as fast: 23 megabytes per second, about half the maximum USB 2.0 speed of 480 Mbps. And it is not Apple white :)
–jeroen
Via: USB 2.0 10/100Mbps RJ45 LAN Ethernet Network Adapter Dongle – Free Shipping – DealExtreme.
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Resetting the SMC solved my MacBook Air Fan Noise With Lion problem
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/01/09
This might have been caused by my MacBook Air haning itself one time during resume: I manually turned it off keeping the on/off switch pressed for 5+ seconds, then rebooted.
Anyway: over time I observed that the fan was running fast without much CPU/GPU/memory/disk activity.
Resetting the SMC like the answer below, followed by resetting the PRAM and NVRAM solved my issue.
I had exactly these issues with my new Macbook Air 13. Having read this forum I downloaded istat pro and discovered that my fan was always running at over 4000 rpm and the top left part of my case was quite warm. I then followed the instructions here…resetting the SMC and after this the problem was fixed!
–jeroen
via MacBook Air Fan Noise With Lion: Apple Support Communities.
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After restoring fresh HDD from Time Machine Backup: No results from Spotlight
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/01/02
My Mac Mini Server had its’ primary HDD failure. It got replaced by the iAmStore service center, but contrary to what they promised, they didn’t put the Snow Leopard Server image on it.
So I grabbed an external USB DVD player, booted from the Snow Leopard Server install DVD, and restored the Time Machine backup from my external USB HDD.
Somehow, after the restore, Spotlight wouldn’t work: only the search bar was visible, but nothing else.
I tried various tips all having to do with erasing Spotlight for my root volume (so it would be automatically be reindexed), or many-part steps including killing SystemUIServer, Clearing Caches and Rebooting.
In the end the most simple one worked: just “turn Spotlight indexing on”.
My assumption is that Spotlight information is not backed up, and during restore Spotlight is turned off because continuously reindexing during restore will make the restore slower.
If someone can confirm this (or deny and explain the real reason), please post a comment.
This was what user nkt00 had posted as solution on the Apple forum:
I figured it out. In the man page for “mdutil” (type: “man mdutil” at the terminal shell prompt), it describes the option “-i”, which turns indexing on or off for the specified volume. I just typed:
sudo mdutil -i on /and away it went
This was the screen output:
Last login: Mon Oct 31 19:31:01 on ttys000
macminiserver01:~ jeroenp$ mdutil -s /
/:
No index.
macminiserver01:~ jeroenp$ sudo mdutil -i on /
Password:
/:
Indexing enabled.
macminiserver01:~ jeroenp$
Now I’m happily using my Mac Mini Server again.
--jeroen
via No results from Spotlight: Apple Support Communities.
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Mac RDP client uses “/console” after the machine name to connect to a server console (not “/admin”)
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/12/30
It took me a bit of searching to find this out, as the Windows RDP clients switched over to “/admin” for this a long time ago:
with the Mac RDC client, you can connect to a servers console by adding “/CONSOLE” to the end of the computer name
–jeroen
via MacUpdate: Member Profile – Nate Silva.
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