If you’ve ever wanted to remotely reboot a Windows box from your machine, the following tip can be useful… Any Macintosh OS X system can reboot a windows machine, assuming that you know the credentials of an Administrative Account on the Windows system. Â Open the Terminal and use the following command line: net rpc shutdown […]
Apple includes as part of the Printer Libraries, a small conversion utility. Â I presume it is used to help convert certain formats to either PDF or Postscript internally… Â But here’s some fun we can have with it. For example, let’s say we have a file called “my.html”, but using this command line: /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f my.html […]
VMware: Team Fusion: A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7: “May 13, 2009 A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7 Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, […]
A quick and easy method to change the primary language under Mac OS X is to open a terminal window, and run is command… sudo “/System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language Chooser” Select your language, close the language chooser and restart your system to invoke the changes. Â There have been a few reports of the language settings being damaged […]
Apple has a technote out, regarding the fact that after performing an upgrade installation (the default type) of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, an administrator account may change to a standard one. Â While I have not seen this, a co-worker has seen this once. This only affects Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). How to fix […]
In the ongoing quest to finish Mac OS X 10.6, Apple has officially frozen the Snow Leopard API’s. Â For those that don’t know this, that is a good thing, and allows the developers to know for certain that the API’s that they are testing with are what will be shipped. What’s an API? Â Advanced Programming […]
5/7/09 9:09:34 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18764] starting 5/7/09 9:15:56 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18774] starting 5/7/09 9:31:07 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18820] starting From the Man pages, OCSPD is responsible for (security) Certificate Revocation List & Online Certificate Status Protocol responses. In other words, it handles the heavy lifting portion of the security management for Mac OS X 10.4+. OCSP is an internet protocol […]
Apple today released an iMac Firmware Update 1.4 to resolve some outstanding issues with certain models freezing and another issue with Bootcamp, Apple’s technology for allowing users to run Windows on Mac. According to Apple’s documentation, the update fixes intermittent system freeze issues for iMac computers with ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics and fixes wake-from-sleep […]