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If you wanted Time Machine to work with a SMB share you will notice that it doesn’t work. To get it to work run the following command on the terminal defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 Now mount your SMB share. The best way to do this is to click on Go->connect to server in the finder [...]  Some interesting tips and tricks for Mac OS X It got really annoying for me to see how my terminal prompt kept changing when I connected my Macbook from work. I know I can easily fix this by setting my prompt in my .profile file, but I wanted to find out why this was happening. It turns out the culprit is DHCP. By Default the [...] I was working on a php project which involved in uploading a tab delimited file and then processing it with php on a unix webserver to insert data into a database. The file was produced on a windows machine and so it had windows line endings. I used this trick to strip off the carriage [...] Ever tried to copy or move a bunch of files on unix/linux from one location to another and see this error message spit out back at you?? $ cp /var/www/* /var/tmp UNIX find to the rescue… $ find /var/www -type f -name ‘*’ -exec cp {} /var/tmp/. \; problem solved! I started seeing the following error every time I started MAMP. This began after I changed the root password for my MAMP installation on my MBP. /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: YES) when trying to connect It turns out that the default password is hard coded in different scripts under ‘/Applications/MAMP/bin’. [...] I did not realize how easy it is to join mpeg files with just the windows copy command or unix cat command. On windows the trick is to copy the files while preserving the binary format. Here is how you would do it - copy files1.mpg /b + files2.mpg /b joinedfile.mpg You could also do the following [...] I constantly connect to linux or unix machines using ssh and it can get a little bothersome typing out the IP address repeatedly. Here is the typical syntax to connect to a linux box (random IP address) ssh username@111.11.11.1 Now imagine typing this again and again. Thats where the ssh config file comes to the rescue. You [...] One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device. Now, you’re more likely to use a file to make your archive. To use a tarfile, use the command-line option -f . [...] I found this wonderful free tool to repair registry problems.. It’s just simply called registry repair! Saw some good reviews and it is dead simple to use.. Just scan your registry and you will see a list of potential problems. You can then fix and repair the problem right there. Here is a link for [...] |
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