OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) is the 9th major release of Mac OS X released on July 25, 2012.
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EFI partition malware?
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro, running 10.8.2 and was worried that the laptop may have been tampered with while left unattended for a few days while abroad in Asia.
I have mounted my EFI partition using:
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Key and cursor glitch in Terminal.app
I am having a problem with Terminal. It is triggered when I do something that involves the Command key, Cmd-C, Cmd-V etc. It causes my keyboard actions to not be recognized until I click somewhere ...
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Can't set virtual host on OS X
I'm trying to create a virtual host for PHP developement, so I don't go to http://localhost/new_website, but to new_website.dev and get the website.
I've created the directory in the /Sites folder ...
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Show only modified files in Finder
Is there any way to make Finder in Mac to only show files that were recently updated within a particular folder?
I'm working on a web project and there are lots of loose HTML files that are nested ...
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Python IDLE not starting when clicking .py files in OSX Finder
I can open IDLE.
After opening IDLE, I can do File > Open > some_file.py just fine.
When IDLE is open, I can also just double-click on any .py files in Finder and they will open in IDLE.
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What are “Paste Item Exactly” and “Duplicate Exactly” in Finder?
While holding Opt and Shift, the Finder menu items Duplicate and Paste Item become Duplicate Exactly and Paste Item Exactly. These require administrator permissions.
How are they different from the ...
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Unwanted sound produced by coreaudiod
I am at my macbook pro and sometimes happens that I hear unwanted sound. Something like birds tweeting and animals, like if I'm hearing a farm.
I tried to discover what was the issue, and I ...
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Sharing wifi using Mac mini, Mountain Lion, using BearExtender (source), and ethernet to router
I have a Mac mini, Mountain Lion, and use BearExtender usb (yagi antenna) as the wifi source, and currently airport to share wifi to other devices. Signal strength is 99% and speed is 1+ mps for other ...
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OS X Mountain Lion has multiple Finder windows open
My wife's computer has had a lot of Finder windows all opening at the same time, and it bogs the computer down. When we restart it it relaunches again with hundreds of Finder windows.
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Routing in 10.8 Server - WiFI clients over VPN - Ethernet Clients not over VPN
I'm not sure I have the right hardware for this, but....
I have a Mac Mini i7 Server with a built-in ethernet (en0) and a thunderbolt ethernet (en1) and the built in airport.
I would like to be able ...
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Why does my Macbook Retina + Dual Link not allow my monitor to go over 60hz?
I got an Asus VG248 (refresh rate 144hz) monitor . I also have a dual link adapter.
On my Retina Macbook 15", I cannot set my monitor refresh rate to higher than 60 hz. Why is this? I have ...
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How to auto-arrange/clean-up files for ALL folders in OSX Mountain Lion
I have figured out how to make folders auto arrange their contents. This is achieved in Finder->View->Show View Options (or cmd+J).
From the newly opened window, setting the arrange by dropdown will ...
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How to keep alive using SSH Tunnel Manager on Macintosh?
I'm using SSH Tunnel Maneger v2.1.4 on Macintosh OS X Mountain Lion to tunnel my VNC connections, however, when I leave the machine idle, upon return in a few hours, my SSH is always dead.
How can I ...
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Cannot resolve localhost on Mac OS mountain lion
For the longest time I was a MAMP user, until yesterday, something went terribly wrong and MAMP would no longer start mysql. Long story short I decided to ditch MAMP and just setup my own AMP server, ...
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OS X Serial Number in VM
I was wondering after installation of Mountain Lion on VMWare or other virtualization softwares (on a mac) will it show the same "serial number" in "About This Mac"? And is it possible to customize ...
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Where to move newly downloaded applications on Mountain Lion?
I recently started using Mac, and I'm just getting accustomed to the way the folders are set up and how downloads work. I just downloaded a tar.gz for Eclipse, and I clicked the icon in the downloads ...
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How do I find the torrent file for a current download?
I've had something hanging on utorrent for a few days so I thought I would update the trackers. But I cannot seem to find the actual .torrent file for that download. I've looked through the tabs and ...
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Cisco RV180 ipsec vpn to mac os x 10.8.2 default client Configuration
I would like to configure an IPSec VPN tunnel between my RV180 (server, last firmware) and my Mac OSX 10.8.2 laptop.
I have little knowledge about VPN, and a bit more about network in general. I have ...
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How to stream MPEG-TS over UDP?
I'm using gstreamer to stream over a custom AppSink that mimics the UdpSink. We are doing it this way so we can incorporate listening on other ports for some metadata. Plus, the stock UdpSink is ...
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set mac iptables to allow external traffic for AWS MySQL
I am using mac os x mountain lion. I need to configure MySQL Workbench to access my db on AWS.
After installing MySQL Workbench and trying to connect I get the error "Host ..... is not allowed to ...
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VMware Fusion raw disk “Missing operating system” error for dual-boot system (Host OS 10.8.2 & Guest Ubuntu 12.10)
I am trying to set up a virtual machine in VMware Fusion to boot the Ubuntu 12.10 install from another partition on my main disk. I followed standard instructions for creating raw disks, but I get a ...
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On startup, how can I configure Terminal.app to open in fullscreen?
When my mac reboots, I would like to have Terminal open in full-screen mode (not full window size). I'm on OS X 10.8.2. How can I configure this?
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Monitor works in Bootcamp, but not OS X
I bought a Korean IPS 27" monitor (Crossover 27QD), which only has a dual link DVI Input. I am trying to connect this to a Mac Mini 2012 via an Apple Mini Displayport to Dual Link DVI. The monitor ...
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Is there a way to force an app to stay in the background? [duplicate]
I have an annoying app that pops into the foreground every once in a while. I want to make it stay in the background unless I switch to it.
EDIT: (More information requested)
The app is the iPhone ...
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Log/Cap time spent in virtual desktop as with leech block/stay focused
I love the idea of using the firefox extension leechblock to restrict my time spent on unproductive websites like reddit, but my biggest time wasters are not in my browser, but instead with apps. I ...
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USB 3 drive not mounting when TRIM enabled
A bought a brand new SSD and installed it into my 2012 macbook pro. I enabled TRIM support right after that and realized that my external usb 3 drive is no longer mounted. When I disable the trim ...
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How can control the color depth for RealVNC on Macintosh?
I'm running RealVNC enterprise edition 5 on Macintosh but what is normally a grey background of my editor window is now a pink or purple color. It almost looks as if the color depth is limited to 256 ...
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How do I move the installed instance of Picasa from one drive to another and keep its pool of data on the original media?
I had a large spinny hd on my laptop, I got an ssd, which I am booting from. I put ol' spinny in as a secondary drive. So now what I want to do is run Picasa from the ssd, but read the images (and ...
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Cannot run diskutil, sudo or not
I cannot run diskutil on my brand new Retina Macbook Pro 2012. When I try to run it, (including sudo), the terminal says "command not found". I looked in usr/bin and usr/sbin and could not find ...
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Bootcamp both Windows 8 and Windows 7 on OS X Mountain Lion
I currently have Windows 8 installed via Bootcamp 4(?) via Mountain Lion.
I'd like to also install Windows 7.
Is there a way to do multiple bootcamp's - what is the best way to go about this?
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Why can't I connect to osx through windows 7 network explorer?
I just recently started trying to share files between my Windows 7 Pro PC and Mountain Lion macbook air. While I've figured out how to get the basic functions working, I have a couple of questions ...
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How do I copy a the OSX DVD that came with my mac using a Windows machine?
Even with a clean install of Mountain Lion on an internal SSD, 8 GB of RAM, saving the ISO image to the internal SSD and two different brands (Verbatim & Titan) of unused dual layer DVD+R discs, ...
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How do I ssh-login into my Mac as root?
For some reason I can't login as root into my Mountain Lion 10.8.2.
I've already edited /private/etc/sshd_config file by removing the comment from
PermitRootLogin yes
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Draft messages in Mountain Lion Mail do not include server draft messages
I had a clean install Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro, early 2011.
Following suggestions in the forums, I carried my "Mail" folders (folders, preferences, etc) from my cloned backup of Snow Leopard.
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Mac OS X 10.8 - Configure smbd to follow symbolic links
Is there a way to change the configuration for smbd in mountain lion to follow symbolic links?
I was looking to apply this fix for linux: http://littlehandytips.com/samba-symbolic-links-do-not-work/
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In Safari, is there a way to open new tabs from the left?
Is there a way, s.t new tabs create on the left side of the tab bar instead of the right side?
I am a heavy user of tabs, so I quickly run into the limit of max tabs displayed in the tabbar. Now the ...
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Mountain Lion Server remote admin failure
I have two 10.8.2 machines, one of which is running Server.app installed and with several services running (DNS, Time Machine, File Server), and the other one is a laptop with Server.app downloaded ...
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How do I lock a user's password?
Most Linux distros I've used have a passwd program which can be used to do things like forcibly expire passwords, or lock them to temporarily prevent password-based login. OS X does have a passed ...
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How to remove AppleUSBMultitouchDriver from bootup
I recently spilled a drink over my Macbook Pro which caused a few problems. Afterwards it only boot up into safe mode and the shift-key was somehow stuck. This appears to be a common problem with no ...
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Mount a VHD (VirtualBox) in OSX
How can I mount a VHD (created in VirtualBox) of a Ubuntu Server install on my Max OSX (Mountain Lion) and allow it to be found in Finder (so I can select a folder and view it's contents).
If it ...
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OSX 10.7 and up file sharing issue
first question here. Be gentle with me.
So....my question.
Since I upgraded from OSX 10.6 to 10.7 (then all the way up to 10.8.2). When I share files with my windows PC. It can see my entire mac ...
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How do I back out of sudo privileges in OS X
Is there a command to de-elevate the user from sudo permissions after I execute a command such as sudo pmset sleep 0 so that when I try to execute another sudo command it asks for my password again?
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how do I change user accounts of another partition (Leopard) from my current partition (Mountain Lion)?
I have 2 partitions, one for Leopard 10.5 and one for Mountain Lion.
I forgot user and password in Leopard. How do I change it from Mountain Lion ?
In other terms, how do I change user accounts for ...
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How does one add all values that occur before a specific date?
I know I need the SUMIF function, but I can't figure out the condition for the life of me. Given the following table, how would I get $150?
Value | Date
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$100 | 1/1/2013
$50 | ...
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Hosts file on Mountain Lion stopped working suddenly
I have used my hosts file (located in /private/etc/hosts) several months to block distracting websites during the work day. This worked all well until now.
Today it suddenly stopped working.
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How to install SSL for Darwin Streaming Server on OS X Mountain Lion?
I downloaded Darwin Streaming Server and while I'm installing I want to enable SSL, but this requires that I have a valid streaming server SSL certificate installed.
How can I install an SSL ...
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Need a way to force an application to use a specific network interface in OS X (10.8)?
Scenario:
I have an HTPC computer that functions as both a server and client for the Plex Home Theater (fork of XBMC) suite (www.plexapp.com). There are 2 pieces of software for Plex: The player ...
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PostgresSQL created a user account on OSX
Hello I installed PostgresSQL on my macbook but when I restarted my macbook later I saw that instead of the usual User account and the Guest account I now have also a Postgres user in my startup page ...
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10.8 Server lost access to the services data directory
After a emergency harddrive change (a dedicated data HD) on a MacOSX Server 10.8.2, the services path in server 2.2.1 app has been lost.
I'm looking for the command line fu to manually set the path ...
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Gate Keeper Behaviour
I have recently installed Mountain Lion (clean install) and my gate keeper is set to "Mac App Store". I found an old app downloaded on my mac, it was a game named Tribbi.app when I tried to open it, ...
