Articles tagged with apple

1. iPod Appears in Finder, Not In iTunes

   Posted on July 02, 2012 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 November 07, 2011 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 July 11, 2011 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 June 13, 2011 in System Administration

   I'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. rsync: on remote machine: --extended-attributes: unknown option

   Posted on May 27, 2011 in System Administration

   rsync: on remote machine: --extended-attributes: unknown option
   

   If this is the output you get when running rsync, you are almost certainly running the Mac OS X version of rsync -E on the client with something else on the server side. The fix is to install the MacPorts version of rsync …

6. Adding Windows Shared Printers to Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

   Posted on March 29, 2011 in System Administration

   I was recently struggling to add a Windows shared printer to my MacBook Pro (running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)) until I ran across this post which gave me two important hints:

   1. You need to use the Advanced tab in the Add Printer dialog. You can find this …

7. tshark Fails: Interface is Not Up

   Posted on July 20, 2010 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 …

8. Reminder: Reinstall XQuartz After Apple Software Update

   Posted on July 18, 2010 in Software

   I always forget to do this. Long ago I installed XQuartz on my Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) desktop. For the life of me, I can't remember why I installed it. XQuartz replaces the X11 that comes with Mac OS X. I might have done this since XQuartz is …

9. The Big List of Security Update Resources

   Posted on March 12, 2010 in System Administration

   If you have an interest in information security from a technical or managerial point of view, check out Principles of Information Security. It does an excellent job of presenting material for both audiences.

   If you have other vendors you would like to see on this list, send me a message …

10. Leopard SSH Slow to Connect

    Posted on September 13, 2009 in System Administration

    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 …