Articles tagged with apple

  1. iPod Appears in Finder, Not In iTunes

    Posted on in Software

    After a recent power event, I experienced this problem. None of our iPods were appearing in iTunes; even those that sync via wireless. My problem was solved on the macosxhints forums by sprale.

    In Terminal:

    cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/SyncServices/
    rm Local
    

    If you aren't comfortable in Terminal, you will …

  2. Lion + Cisco VPN DNS Workaround

    Posted on in System Administration

    When I upgraded to OS X 10.7 (Lion), I started using the built-in IPSec VPN client rather than Cisco's VPNClient. I experienced problems immediately. At first it appeared that the connection was being made, but no traffic was passing. When I tried pinging by IP address, I found that …

  3. Convert MOD Movies with VLC on Your Mac

    Posted on in Software

    My wife uses a Canon FS100 for taking home videos of the kids. If you aren't familiar with it, it's a fairly light-weight camcorder that uses SDHC cards rather than tapes. The only real grievance I have with it is that the video codec it uses is not compatible with …

  4. Installing Unison 2.27.57 via MacPorts

    Posted on in System Administration

    MacPorts LogoI've mentioned before that I use Unison to keep a few important directories synchronized between my various workstations and file server. I made the switch to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS recently, and started using its unison 2.27.57 package. This breaks all of my Macs that use unison 2 …

  5. tshark Fails: Interface is Not Up

    Posted on in System Administration

    This problem happened on a Mac Mini running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) not too long ago. The user was trying to run tshark against interface en2 — a USB <acronym title="Network Interface Card">NIC</acronym>. The tshark command produced the following output.

    # tshark -w /tmp/slap -i en2
    Capturing …
  6. Leopard SSH Slow to Connect

    Posted on in System Administration

    Orange Tunnel Thanks to a hard drive failure, I recently installed a fresh copy of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on my MacBook. I do a lot of work on remote systems and SSH is my bread and butter. Whenever I tried to SSH into other Macs on my local network …

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