Mac OS X is a Unix-based operating system developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc.
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MacBook user name I thought I deleted still works for logging in to my account
I (Katy) am giving my old computer to my husband (Andrew). I mucked it up somehow and now I can log in to the admin Katy account using "Andrew" as the login name and the Katy password, despite Andrew ...
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juniper vpn network connect osx 10.6.8
Juniper Network Connect.app stopped working for me out of the blue, i made no upgrades recently. i see the following log, what else can i investigate?
Process: ncproxyd [5322]
Path: ...
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Why is my portable WD My Passport drive not recognized?
My Western Digital My Passport portable drive is not recognized in OS X. It used to be recognized, but not anymore. It does not appear in /Volumes.
The hard drive is recognized by a Linux machine. I ...
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Disable alt text in firefox
Is there a way to disable alt text to appear when an image is loading in firefox ? I Hate it when my connection is slower to see the text before the image.
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Share external HD on OSX to Windows PC over network, “The parameter is incorrect.”
Another user describes the same problem I'm having in a question here, that didn't get an answer. I'm hoping to have more luck here:
My external is formatted exFAT. Neither the Mac nor the PC have ...
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Computer-to-Computer network between OS X and Linux
I want to make a connection point to point via wifi between Mac and Linux.
What I did was:
I have created Computer-To-Computer network in OS X
I have set manually an ip address for Mac, ...
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Mountain Lion screen crashes after returning from sleep
During the past 3 days I have experienced the following issue: when returning from sleep, I see an extremely garbled version of my desktop. The only thing that seems to help is a reboot.
My first ...
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Show messages from other folders in conversation view on Outlook for Mac 2011
On Outlook 2010 it is possible to show messages from other folders in the conversation view (it's an option in the Conversation Settings menu on the ribbon).
Is there a similar option for Outlook ...
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How to open a server port outside of an OpenVPN tunnel with a pf firewall on OSX (BSD)
I have a Mac mini that I use as a media server running XBMC and serves media from my NAS to my stereo and TV (which has been color calibrated with a Spyder3Express, happy). The Mac runs OSX 10.8.2 and ...
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Apache says it's started but localhost does not load
I'm having a problem with apache2 server today. I just wont respons for localhost but it says it's started.
Env: Mac OSX.
I'm listening on 80 as specified in /private/etc/apache2 lines 51-53.
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Loading guest OS's (Windows) localhost through my host's (Mountain Lion) browsers
For work, I have to develop in Visual Studio, which I run via VMware's fusion 5.
I really want to test via my mac's native browsers for a multitude of reasons. that is, view the IIs web stuffs that ...
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Why does this line appear every time I launch iTerm on my MacBook?
So I use iTerm on my MacBook Air and also my MacBook Pro. I've been playing around with .bashrc and .bash_profile and trying to come up with clever ways to configure things. At one point I decided I ...
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Connected to internet but can't browse after trying to remove Covenant Eyes
I recently got a MacBook Pro. It connects to ethernet\wifi and has internet but when I open Safari or Firefox, nothing happens. I get a timeout for all websites.
I had Covenant Eyes on my Mac before ...
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What does “Updating Boot Support Partitions for the volume as required” mean?
I have used GNU ddrescue to copy a crashed WD external disk over to an identical one. ddrescue told me that 9 MB out of 2TB could not be rescued, so I think that's pretty good.
Anyway, being a Mac ...
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Mouse button still controls settings of other Synergy client when changing window
I'm using Synergy as the server on OS X Mountain Lion. Now I have a strange problem using a specic piece of software on the Mac. It is a program for viewing medical images (Osirix). The left mouse ...
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Mountain Lion: Launchpad always scrolls left
When activating the launchpad in Mountain Lion, and try to scroll to one of the panes to the right, after a second it automatically scrolls left again. This is on a mid 2011 MBP, with no other devices ...
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Windows guest in VMware Fusion not able to see Mac's internet connection
My VMware Fusion Windows VM can't access the internet.
I had to swap a MacBook Pro's HDD to another MacBook Pro. The Mac is the host and the Windows 7 VM reports Ethernet cable not being plugged in; ...
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Linux USB to work as CD ROM in OS X
I am working in driver development in Linux USB modules.
I have written a driver for USB and it is working as CD ROM in a Windows machine.
I made the first partiton as fat32
modprobe g_hidmass ...
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Windows can't see the external exFAT partition but Mac OSX Can
I have a 2TB external hard drive that was pre formatted as one giant NTFS partition. I used windows 7 disk utility to partition it into two 1TB partitions and then formatted as FAT.
The formatting ...
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Time Machine says it must create a new backup erasing my backup history?
Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on “MyBackupDrive”. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.
What does this mean and why did it happen?
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Printing PDFs quickly from Finder - OS X 10.8
I've read a few hacks on this and tried a couple but nothing cutting it yet.
Dragging files to desktop printer causes them to print out in portrait when they should be landscape and they therefore ...
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Keyboard buffering since OS X 10.8
Since installing OS X 10.8 keyboard buffering when composing in Apple Mail has become a problem. Sometimes I can key a six or eight letter word before it appears on the screen. Mail is off right now ...
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Create AddressBook group without creating individual contacts
Is there a way to create a mailing list for AddressBook.app and/or Mail.app without individually creating contacts for each person on the list?
Specifically, I have an e-mail addressed to each ...
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No DNS resolution when running XP in VMWare Fusion with a static IP
I'm winning Windows XP under VMWare Fusion on my OSX 10.7.4 in bridged mode.
I need to be able to reference the Guest (XP) via a hostname, as it hosts a server i use in development. To achieve that, ...
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Prohibit internet access for all applications except selected ones (OS X)
Is there a tool that can be used to prohibit internet access for all applications except selected ones (on Mac OS X)?
"Little snitch" can't be the answer, as it doesn't provide a simple "deny all / ...
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MacOSX: Truecrypt partition on HDDs with larger sector size than 512 bytes
I have an external USB 3.0 HDD which uses a sector size larger than 512 bytes (4kB). In Linux, I created a truecrypt encrypted partition on it, which works fine on any Linux or Windows Computer. ...
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Automount of AFP shares on Lion clients from OS X Snow Leopard server - not working right
Recently upgraded Snow Leopard clients to Lion. AFP shares are set up as login items. The network shares on some of the machines now take a long time to come up (10 minutes). Several machines that ...
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In OS X Messages, can I disable double-click opening a conversation in its own window?
I keep Messages over on the left side of the screen so I can see when someoene's sent me a new message. But if I click to make the window active, and then click again to make a conversation active, it ...
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How to disable OpenGL threaded optimization on Mac OS X?
How can I do the equivalent of this on my 2009 Mac Mini (Mac OS X Lion):
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Is there a Synergy-like application that only shares the keyboard?
Basically, I don't need the "shared mouse" that Synergy has. I have a Macbook Pro with an external keyboard hooked up and a Windows 7 PC I'd like to share the keyboard with. What I'd like to do is ...
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How can I select enclosing quotes with TextMate?
In Textmate I can "Select Enclosing Brackets" with Command+Shift+B:
How can I set up a similar keyboard shortcut to select everything between the single / double quotes which encompass the cursor?
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iMac wakes up from sleep
I'm having quite an annoying problem with my imac: After I tell it to go to sleep, it wakes back up approximately 5s later. I've taken the following steps to try and diagnose the problem:
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In Numbers for Mac, possible to have custom formatting depending on value of other cell?
I have several columns of numbers, and I want to highlight one of those with a background color.
I have created a single cell at the top of these columns, that for each column contains either a 1 ...
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Prevent Parallels from dismounting data HDD when starting Windows
I've got two harddrives in my Macbook. A SSD with OSX and Windows 7 (via Bootcamp) on it and a ordinary HDD for data which is formated as exFat (because both OSX and Windows can read/write it).
I'm ...
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Text tagging/analysis tool for Mac
I'm a doctoral student doing research in the humanities. As part of my research I have gathered together a lot of interview text. To analyse this data I want to be able to easily tag sections of text ...
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Using keyboard specific keyboard-layouts in OS X
I use a Kinesis Advantage with my MacBook Pro. While I use the dvorak layout when using the MBP's built-in keyboard the Kinesis has its own internal dvorak mode which assumes the host computer is ...
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Hibernate between OS X and Bootcamp Win 7
Is it possible to use the true hibernate system functionalities of Win 7 and OS X to create a kind of instant switching between the two? Imagine this when reading/writing the sleep images to a quick ...
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Why does my Time Machine backup fail?
I am trying to backup my Laptop to my UnRAID server. Now the third time it failed and displayed this message:
My backup is 650 GB big and contains 1.6 million files. May this be the problem? Or is ...
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Using dnsmasq on OS X when not connected to the Internet
I'm routing dns requests through dnsmasq so that domains I'm using for local development point to 127.0.0.1. This works great when I'm connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi or ethernet, but I start to ...
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Drafts in Apple Mail spinning out of control
My draft mail continues to duplicate and keeps duplicating. It never stops. It is like the national debt sign that keeps adding and adding. I'm at 289.000 and counting.
What is going on here?
I have ...
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How to hide the dock on one desktop but make it visible in others?
I have 3 desktops with different apps and windows on.
I want to set the dock to auto-hide in one of these but keep it visible in others.
How can I achieve this?
If I choose auto-hide, it becomes so ...
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Install two different versions of same application on OSX?
A friend of mine is running OSX, and wants to install two versions of World of Warcraft onto the same machine: one being the current official retail version, the second being a much older ("Vanilla") ...
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Chrome + LCD Font Smoothing = Not Working
Recently, LCD font smoothing stopped working on Chrome; it happened no more than two weeks ago. Seeing that I use Chrome as my default browser, this issue is very annoying, as I prefer the look of ...
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Keyboard mapping issue in Virtualbox on Mac OS
I run Windows 7 as a VM in VirtualBox on my MacBook Air (using OS X 10.7). If I do not shutdown the VM but save its machine state. The keyboard will behave strangely after resuming. It seems the ...
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Mounting an NFS share with udp or mntudp options
According to the documentation of NFS client on Mac OS X 10.7 user can specify following options:
udp Use UDP transport protocol.
and
mntudp Force the mount protocol to use UDP transport, ...
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Is there a working method for recreating a quicktime video resource fork?
A few years ago, I backed up a directory of family movies in quicktime format to my NAS. Unfortunately, only the data files went, and NOT the resource forks. Months later when I went to import those ...
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How to search for all labeled files, except those in some folders?
I want to add a saved search to my sidebar that contains all labeled files on my Mac, except files that are in certain folders. Files that are in subfolders of the excluded folders shouldn’t be ...
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CFURLCreateWithString error from outlook on OSX Lion
After I upgraded to OSX Lion Outlook 2011 for mac has been very slow.
My system console shows thousands of this error:
12-02-22 10:09:10.255 AM Microsoft Outlook: CFURLCreateWithString was ...
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OS X some files on SMB share are grayed out
On my Mac with OS X 10.6 I can mount and work on a SMB share without any problems. But some times some files on this share are grayed out. If I double click on them nothing happens. If pull a grayed ...
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Mapping extensions and UTI on OS X
In OS X, an extension can correspond to one or more UTIs. The sample code gives an array for an extension.
NSArray *UTIs = (NSArray *)UTTypeCreateAllIdentifiersForTag(kUTTagClassFilenameExtension,
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