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How do I shut up bogus connection alert in Lion?
I constantly get this error message on my laptop when I'm away from work (e.g. at home):
There was a problem connecting to the server «work.server».
It is possible that the server does not exist or ...
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Mac OS X Lion - Outlook 2011 Sync with iPhone
I just had to reinstall Outlook 2011 and im having problems to sync my contacts and calendar with my iphone.
When i open the Sync Services panel on Outlook it doesnt show nothing, its blank, just as ...
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Change environment variable for Mac 10.7
I would like to set the PATH on my Mac 10.7.
So in /etc/launchd.conf I wrote:
setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/sbin/
and I restarted Mac.
However when I write ...
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Sound not playing in DOSbox in Mac OS X Lion, but I can record the sound correctly
I'm attempting to use dosbox to play some older games (eg sim city 2000, warcraft 2). However, I cannot figure out how to get sound working. Everything works okay, but there is never any sound being ...
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Uninstalled Ruby.Frameworks on Mac OS X 10.8
In an attempt to create a clean Ruby slate for myself, I uninstalled RVM, rbenv (yeah, I had both installed, whoops), Gem, Bundler, and the pre-installed version of Ruby. I didn't realize the chaos ...
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How can I set a static IP, gateway, net mask, and dns using terminal / applescript - OS X 10.7.5
I use my macbook at home and at work. At work I need to use a static IP, gateway, DNS and net mask. At home I use it in DHCP mode.
Manually setting them every day really sucks.
How can I set them ...
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Change input setting in mac keyboard
In my keyboard when I pressed this key
Then I get/display '§' (with shift+key -> '±' ) instead of what expected.
How can I set it to work properly?
Also after Googling I found this site but ...
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Re-binding the expose key on a macbook
The expose button on my macbook is absolutely useless to me as I use an application launcher. Is there some easy way to re-bind it to something more useful (like show desktop)? Or must I muck around ...
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Installed Git via homebrew on OSX , man file problems, other potential problems?
I installed Git via homebrew, on OSX 10.8, with an already existing version of Git. The new version wouldn't show up, so I renamed the old git files (git, gitk etc...)in /usr/bin , to *-old. Now the ...
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Move Mac OS Hard Drive from One Mac to Another
I currently have two Mac Minis, one is the current gen, another is a 2009 model both loaded with OS X Lion. I am trying to boot the new Mac Mini with the hard drive pulled from the old one using a ...
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Restore missing desktop in OS X Lion (10.7.5)
We apparently lost power overnight, because when I went to wake my Mac Pro up this morning I was greeted with the login screen. Logging in, I am presented with a totally desktop-free environment. The ...
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Is there a way to disable access to the Sharing preference pane?
We do not use Open Directory at my company but I deploy OSX images using DeployStudio. We use an inventory system that automatically updates, but users keep on changing their computer's name in the ...
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How to install pkg in a non-standard location? (OS X)
In brief, my question is this:
How can I install an OS X framework from a *.pkg file somewhere other than under /Library/Frameworks (or /System/Library/Frameworks)?
Background
I want to ...
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Mac Lion OS X - I deleted files, but the disk free space is not increased
I had on Mac Lion OS X just 0.5GB of free space, so I deleted like 15 GB movies => OS X wanted to confirm this operation by filling out the password => I did it and the files were deleted.
I checked ...
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Understanding uname in Darwin
I am a newbie to this topic, so please excuse me if you feel it’s an elementary question. I want to know whether there is any difference between arch and uname –a on my Mac machine (10.7.8 Lion). I ...
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Installed new version of php but server still uses older version
I just upgraded to PHP 5.4.11 from 5.3.15 following this link. After upgrading I ran php -v but it shows me following output.
Zafars-MacBook-Pro:php-5.4.11 zafar$ php -v
PHP 5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch ...
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Why my OSX pmset do not show hibernatemode 5?
To hibernate my system, all this time (for months) I have been using pmset -a hibernatemode 5. This was working great and I had no complaints.
However, recently I was checking out pmset's man page ...
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Desktop icons larger than 128px
I'm wondering if there's a way to break the limit of 128px for desktop icons in OSX Lion 10.7 (I have 10.7.5) by hacking some system files?
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OS X: change root umask for su?
In recent versions of OS X (10.6+), the sudo command by default takes the "union" (bitwise or) of 0022 and the caller's user mask. This can lead to problems if the umask is more restrictive than 0022: ...
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Shut down Macbook Pro automatically after download?
I have a Late 2011 Macbook Pro.
I want it to shut down automatically after downloading and installing Softwares Updates and if possible, downloads through other application too (eg. Mac App Store, ...
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mac osx lion - file size is less than 1mb- not booting
We have an iMac with wireless keyboard and mouse running OSX Lion. Looks like the disk capacity is full and shows only 16 KB free space in Macintosh HD. We are able to reach till the login screen but ...
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How to reset mac PRAM through the command line in Lion/Mountain Lion?
I'm trying to write a script to automate a PRAM reset and I've seen a lot of old guides that tell me to use the following command to reset the Mac's PRAM via the terminal:
nvram boot-args="-p -r"
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iTunes on dashboard
I am somewhat a newbie in OS X, and I just discovered the dashboard and amount of widgets I can download to it. And my tow questions are:
Is there a "iTunes widget" that plays music and controls it ...
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Bypassing OS Requirements in mpkg
I have a mpkg file that i'm trying to install.
The installer quits after "writing files" with the error:
The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to
fail...
Among a big ...
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Can't find the Google Chrome User Data Directory in Mac OS X 10.7.4 Lion
I need to increase the font in my Inspect Element window in Chrome.
I found a tutorial on how to do it: http://k20e.com/blog/2011/08/18/how-to-set-the-chrome-console-font/.
According to the Chrome ...
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creating unc path shortcuts from OSX (mac)
I need a better way to access my NAS from my Mac.
Currently, every time I get on my network, I have to go through these steps:
Open finder
⌘ + K (to map a network path)
Connect to my NAS
Navigate ...
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From where can I get “Python Launcher” for Mac OS X Lion?
I use a macbook (air) with OS X Lion on it. I have Python 2.7 installed already but I can't seem to find a "Python Launcher.app" anywhere on the system.
I tried installing with with pip but it ...
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hung processes kills the system in OS X 10.7 Lion
UPDATE Dec 27 2012
OK, today after a week or so of mostly trouble free operation and several successful attempts to watch mounted DVD file shared via my other machine and no other problems playing ...
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iTerm2 vim cannot map alt key
I'm having trouble trying to map the alt-key bindings on vim in iTerm2. I want to map shortcuts for switching between buffers like this:
map <A-Right> <C-w>l
map <A-Left> ...
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OS X Lion - cannot run spotlight, mail, iCal etc
Whenever I try to run Mail or iCal I get the following error:
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
...
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cp -u is illegal on mac. What are the alternatives?
I have a MacbookPro Lion, and I have tried to archive my files that is tried to copy and overwrite if the source is newer than the destination. I tried the following command
cp -u source destination
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Root being controlled by ARD
I run a lab of 20 iMacs, all running Mac OS 10.7.5(11G63) with ARD version 3.6.2. My server and all of the iMacs run Lion. I seem to have crossed something and now my root user is being controlled ...
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Have to repeatedly press enter for Terminal commands to work — OS X 10.7.3 Lion
I've encountered a very, very strange error. Whenever I type a command, I must press enter several times before the Terminal executes the command. Note that this is not a hardware error: I can still ...
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How to avoid slow startup / OSX won't save spotlight index?
Lately I've been having issues with osx taking a CRAZY long time to start up. Every time it does start, I have this hunch that, considering how hard spotlight is working after startup, that it might ...
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Finding source of leaking active memory on Mac OS Lion [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Mac OS X: What is using my ‘active’ memory?
My activity monitor shows 6GB of active RAM usage:
Yet my Real Memory column shows nothing like that amount:
(There's ...
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Can't resolve Mac's machine name on VPN
My mac'c machine name is something like this: hostname.company.com but whenever I connect to VPN, it becomes something like vpn-xxxx.company.com where xxxx are some random numbers. Because of this, ...
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connecting to the internet through mac os x lion virtual machine on windows 7
I've followed a video tutorial and managed to set up a mac os x lion installation on my oracle Virtual Machine. I'm running windows 7 on the actual machine.
When I try to connect to the internet ...
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Installing Rosetta-dependent software on OS X Lion
I've got some old programs that I still need to dip in to from time to time, but they are old Rosetta-dependent software.
Is there a 3rd party install I can do to make my Lion machine be able to run ...
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Install VMWare Tools on Mac OSX Lion - need to reboot?
I'm trying to install Mac OSX Lion on Windows 7 by VMWare 8, everything is alright except the fact that I can't install VMWare tools for MacOSX Lion.
I tried installing it using VMWare's toolbar ...
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Mac OS X libraries path setup
In OSX, by default, (apple) libs and components live in /usr.
Since I use MacPorts and compile my own modules, I have the following path setup:
/usr -> default Apple
/usr/local -> My own ...
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white screen appears when restarting mac mini after datacard software is not working?
I am using a datacard in mac mini running mountain lion.Whenever the datacard softeware is not working properly, I force close that application. I could not open it again successfully so I restarted ...
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How to install TextMate 2 in OS X 10.7 (Lion)?
Have searched but have not found a TextMate 2 .dmg file available for OS X 10.7 (Lion). Is there one downloadable online?
Also, there are pre-built binaries for TextMate 2 here: ...
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How can I disable extended keyboard characters in OS X Lion?
I'm using Textmate on OS X Lion and I used to be able to use Shift+Alt+W to
"Wrap selection in open/close tags"
but this no longer works for me. Instead I get a weird double comma character when I ...
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Finder shows macports as file owner and file is locked
Running OSX/Lion, I have an external drive that I keep my iTunes music library on. While trying to figure out why ID3 changes to some music files (genre, etc) from within iTunes do not persist, I ...
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How can I execute a bash script which sends the current user name to a server on login and logout in OS X Lion? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I execute a script each time I log in and out from OS X?
I am not having any kind of success with LoginHook/LogoutHook but I guess even if I could get it to ...
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How can I execute a script each time I log in and out from OS X?
What I want is to send a URL with variables to a server which will track when someone is present based on when they login and logout of their workstation.
I've tried setting the LoginHook in ...
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Cannot change file to www-data, keep getting “chown: www-data: Invalid argument”
OK, so I have been at this issue for the better part of 2 hours. I tried this original command
sudo chown www-data:www-data newlogo.png
I got this:
chown: www--data: Invalid argument
I have ...
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Mac Joining Active Directory Still Prompts For Authentication
My Mac is joined to an Active Directory domain. What I expected to see was the same ease of access to file shares and internal websites that Windows computers joined to the domain experience (i.e., no ...
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Install 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 on same machine
I have a MacBookPro with 10.6 running on it. I am using it as a base machine for development.
I want to understand how can I install 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 on same machine, so that I can continue to ...
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How can I setup my Mac so fsck only runs at night?
Every so often, my Mac kicks off fsck_hfs and as I sit here working I have to listen to the hard drive thrash for an hour or two as well as put up with some performance hits.
Is there any way to ...
