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Disable .DS_Store on network mapped drives

Shelby — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:27:45 +0000

I always seem to misplace this little piece of code, so I thought I would make my own post on it. Prevents those pesky .DS_Store files that OS X creates. Just run it from the OS X Terminal and you are all set.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

OS X 10.7.1 Update

Shelby — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:55:28 +0000

Pretty small update only only includes a few main fixes as listed below:

The 10.7.1 update is recommended for all users running OS X Lion and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability and compatibility of your Mac, including fixes that:
Address an issue that may cause the system to become unresponsive when playing a video in Safari
Resolve an issue that may cause system audio to stop working when using HDMI or optical audio out
Improve the reliability of Wi-Fi connections
Resolve an issue that prevents transfer of your data, settings, and compatible applications to a new Mac running OS X Lion
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4764.

Nothing about my crazy mail issue I am having though.

Fink on Intel OS X 10.6 – 64bit

Shelby — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:38:15 +0000

If you need to get Fink installed on your OS X 10.6 install you can follow these steps that I have gathered. You will need to compile Fink from source as they do not currently offer a 10.6 binary install.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@fink.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fink login
[just hit return when prompted for password]
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@fink.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fink co -P fink
cd fink ; ./bootstrap /sw64

During the bootstrap process you will be prompted with two questions, make sure that you answer them as shown.

Fink must be installed and run with superuser (root) privileges. Fink can automatically try to become root when it’s
run from a user account. Since you’re currently running this script as a normal user, the method you choose will also
be used immediately for this script. Avaliable methods:
(1) Use sudo
(2) Use su
(3) None, fink must be run as root
Choose a method: [1]
Your hardware is a 64bit-compatible intel processor, so you have the option of running Fink in 64bit-only mode. This
is not recommended for most users, since many more packages are available for the default mode (which is mostly 32bit
but includes some 64bit packages). Which mode would you like to use?
(1) Default (mostly 32bit)
(2) 64bit-only
Choose a mode: [1] 2

Next you will need to edit the following config file /sw64/etc/fink.conf and change line 4 to look like this:

Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto

After that run the following command to get Fink all updated.

source /sw*/bin/init.sh
fink selfupdate-cvs
fink -y update-all
fink scanpackages

Then edit /sw64/etc/apt/sources.list and add the following sources as they are the best(only) ones I could find for 10.6

deb http://sage.ucsc.edu/fink_intel_10.6_64bit stable main crypto
deb http://sage.ucsc.edu/fink_intel_10.6_64bit unstable main crypto

Now your all set you can issue the following commands to update the source list and be on your way.

fink scanpackages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

OsX86 on MSI Wind Desktop : Part 2

Shelby — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:47:03 +0000

So I added a 40gb SATA drive to the machine and installed OSx86 to that. Once the install was complete the machine booted right up. The only issue is that the video driver was only allowing 800×600. Once I obtained the updated driver and did a reboot I was able to get 1280×1024. Everything was working great … So I decided to do an upgrade in hoped to not screw it up.
I updated to 10.5.6 with the Combo updater. After the install before I rebooted I reinstalled the Video Driver. When it rebooted the first time it got a kernel panic. I restarted again and passed -v -f to the boot options. It booted right up. After that I did one more reboot and it worked, and was very fast as well.
Once it was back up and running with 10.5.6 I did the software update and grabbed all of the avail updates. So far so good.

Block ads on OS X Leopard

Shelby — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:59:39 +0000

I got on a fix today about ads on websites, I already use Adblock Plus as well as the Adblock Filterset.G Updater in Firefox. But I wanted to take it a step further. I adid so with the following steps.

Opened up terminal and added the following list to my /etc/hosts file.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

After this you need to flush the DNS cache

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

All set. You can of course use this on Windows/Linux and other versions of OS X. For older versions of OS X the dscacheutil command is not the same.

OSX + Twitter

Shelby — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:20:13 +0000

I came across this post, I gave it a try. Seems alright so far, though most of my friends dont update that often so its a little bare. Give it a try.

Safari goodness?

Shelby — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:27:55 +0000

I decided that when after getting my iPhone and making the upgrade to Leopard I would do away with Firefox. I had a couple of reasons for doing so.

1. Safari loads a lot faster than Firefox does
2. I can sync my Safari bookmarks with my iPhone
3. Less 3rd party apps to bog stuff down

So I took the jump and haven’t looked back, though I was missing the extensive plugins that Firefox had to offer, not to mention that I have a Linux machine at work that I am on way to much so its weird switching browsers. I have been able to over come the switching of browsers but have not been able to get back all the plugins I was using except for a few.
The main plugin that I was missing was AdBlock, I really don’t know how people can live with out it. After some Googling I came across Safari AdBlock which doesn’t work as well as the Firefox version but does a damn good job so I can deal with that. I also came across a really nice search addon which is much like Spotlight on OSX its called Inquisitor, so far that seems to be working really well right now. For the other Mac people out there what addons are you using in Safari if you are using it?

Leopard Part 1

Shelby — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:01:35 +0000

So my upgrade was a success and didn’t encounter any issues. Â I have since taken it upon myself to do a fresh install. Â Mainly because if you know me I install a lot of crap all the time, and well I figured a new OS called for a clean slate. Â I spent the last couple of hours backing up and restoring everything. Â I even decided that maybe it was time I make a switch to Safari as Firefox is a tad slower on the mac. Â While I am sad to see firefox go at this time I think the switch is for the best. Â I also decided to steer away from Desktop Manager and make the switch to Spaces, only for the fact that spaces comes pre-installed, and I figure if it is already installed might as well use that as the overhead cant be much more than Desktop Manager. Â I am sure there is a follow up post to this in the very near future once I mess around with the OS more. Â I can say that the coverflow aspect in Finder is nice…. but in most cases just flashy and not as functional as you would think

OS X Leopard…

Shelby — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:56:22 +0000

I just got the copy from the friendly FedEx guy, its installing right now…Â Updates on this after the install.

wget for Mac OS X

Shelby — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:09:18 +0000

Get the source from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.9.tar.gz
Unpack the tarball: tar xzf wget-1.9.tar.gz
This creates a folder named wget-1.9. Change the working folder to it: cd wget-1.9/
Configure the build: ./configure
Build: make
Install: sudo make install
The wget binary should now be in your /usr/local/bin folder.

Security Update 2006-003 (Power PC)

Shelby — Fri, 12 May 2006 00:39:30 +0000

Security Update 2006-003 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components.

AppKit
Bom
CFNetwork
CoreFoundation
CoreGraphics
curl
Finder
Flash Player Plug-in
ImageIO
LaunchServices
Mail
Preview
QuickDraw
Ruby
Safari
securityd

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798.

J2SE 5.0 Release 4

Shelby — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:17:25 +0000

Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 4 delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 on Mac OS X v10.4.5 and later. This release includes J2SE version 1.5.0_06. With this update J2SE 5.0 becomes the preferred Java version, superseding Java 1.4.2. Java 1.4.2 is still installed on your machine, but applications will run with J2SE 5.0 unless they specifically request Java 1.4.2.

For more details on this Update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302983

AppZapper 1.3, Get It For Free!

Shelby — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:13:20 +0000

Head over to Maczot.com to get a free copy of AppZapper 1.3