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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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:
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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 …Posted on 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 …
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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 …
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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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Today (Aug 28, 2009) is the big day for Mac OS X lovers. Snow Leopard has finally been released. If you were smart enough to pre-order it on Amazon then you'll be getting it soon. Not only that, but you saved \$4 off the list price!
On a related note …
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Most of OS X Caching Only Name Server series was written in the pre-Leopard days. The final step in that process was to make the new server the preferred DNS server. Unfortunately, a change was introduced in Leopard that only allows you to add the local server to the list …
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Those that know me may have heard me rant about my "Reverting Mac Dock Icon Problem." The problem is this: I have put a folder on my Dock and every time I log out or reboot, the icon reverts from my custom icon to the default folder icon. To fix …
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This is a little off-topic for this website, but I had to pass this widget along for any Mac OS X users out there. The MLB Schedule widget from Logan Rockmore Design is a simple widget that displays the 5 day schedule for any MLB team. It will show the …
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Important commands: sips
A few folks have asked me where I got the nice looking Software Update icon for my post regarding Apple's Security Update 2007-004. First, let me say, "Thanks for noticing!" Second, let me point out that Steve Jobs will probably be knocking on the door of the …
