Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Named Darwin, it has a Mach kernel and FreeBSD heritage.
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Tool to compare files on one disk with registry information on another?
Been a long time since I got very far under the hood in Unix so I'm probably not even using proper terminology when I say 'registry,' but here's the situation.
I have a disk thats dying. Lots of i/o ...
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Dual booting on a Macbook Pro 7,1.
I'm looking to install Linux on my Macbook Pro in a Dual Boot config. I've previously asked this question in a different fashion here: Dual Boot Fedora 16 with OS X rEFIt.
However, it didn't really ...
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Installing gcc without root?
I'm running OSX, and I don't have root, or an existing compiler. Is there any way I can install gcc?
Are there official or trusted unofficial mach-o binaries that can be downloaded for a certain ...
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Linux guest VM on mac host - Keyboard
I use a Mac as a development box, but am slowly transitioning to Linux. So I am spending the majority of my time in the Linux guest VM while working. But I still spend a fair amount of time in Mac ...
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Why the value of VSIZE in top is different from the value of VSZ (Virtual set size) in ps?
I know VSZ in ps is for the total address space allocated for the app and is sometimes aliased as vsize (mentioned in man page of ps on linux), but what's the definition of VSIZE in top? This top ...
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A real non-“better touch tools” solution for select-to-copy on Mac OS X
I recently moved to Mac. I am missing my X11 copy-paste style.
I can't find a way to exactly emulate X11 behavior "select-to-copy", "middle-click-to-paste" globally on Mac OS X.
I am aware that this ...
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FTP timeout FIRST time
I'm using PureFTPd on MacOSX (Snow Leopard, not server version). When trying to access the FTP account from the outside via dyndns (e.g. using https://www.wormly.com/test_ftp_server) the connection ...
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Sound volume control does not work in Ubuntu
My sound volume control does not work when I'm logged in with my regular user, though the sound works correctly. What's weirder is that the sound control works when I'm logged in as guest.
With my ...
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Losing smtp/pop3/imap access
I have a server running OS X. This server connects to another server, this other one CentOS 6.3, from times to times to collect mail messages over POP3/IMAP and also to send mails using SMTP (exim, on ...
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How to troubleshoot failed X11 forwarding with ssh?
When I try to establish an X11-forwarding connection to myserver, I get the following error:
% ssh -X myserver xlogo
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X11 connection rejected ...
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Transferring Files SSH SCP Error Message: 'Stdin: is not a tty'
I am using a Macbook SSH terminal and generated RSA key pairs and uploaded remote id_rsa.pub with approved permissions. I can connect with remote Apache web server. I can create, open, move, modify ...
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How are default permissions determined (on OS X)?
My (limited) understanding of basic Unix is that any files that are created will be created based on the permissions of the creating user. In particular, the group assigned will be the creating user's ...
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Change routes for VPN
I need to use for some things a cisco VPN connection, but I don't want to route all my trafic over the VPN but only that traffic, that is send to a specific network.
How does a script look like, that ...
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Compile IMAP with certain PHP API version for MAMP
I've installed MAMP on Mac OS X (where PHP 5.3.15 with API version 20090626 is installed), but IMAP there is without SSL support.
As long as MAMP using PHP v5.4.4 (API version 20100525) I've ...
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Files replaced with Finder on Mac creating a copy on Samba's .recycle
Scenario:
Ad Agency with Samba Server and multiple Mac users, 0 Windows users.
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:repository = /storage/files/.recycle/%U
Workflow:
Before start ...
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IPFW Port Forwarding
This is my situation: I want to connect to an OpenVPN server from my office (we're using a proxy, only ports 80 and 443 are allowed).
Server IP address is: 176.31.250.232:843
My static IP address ...
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Can I get WCHAN from ps on Mac OS X 10.7.4?
From the manual it seems that ps -AO wchan should tell me what everything is sleeping on, but everything comes up as -. (And nwchan as 0). Did they do away with the old sleep()/tsleep() interface in ...
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WPA pre-shared key format in linux and macintosh
I'm temporarily in a situation where the wifi network I need to use is implemented using Macintosh equipment. They have encoded their network using WPA and TKIP. I can't seem to get onto their network ...
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Diacritics do not work in GTK+ applications running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I am using some GTK+ applications in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. My MacBook is configured for using the Brazilian layout, which allows it to enter diacritics as dead keys (so I can write รก typing ' and ...
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How do I detect a copy event in Finder?
I am trying to strip formatting from text copied from my Illustrator docs. Someone accurately pointed out to me that running pbpaste | pbcopy via command-line will perform this action on text in the ...
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Boot linux bootloader from Mac OSX
Recently I was running Fedora 17 on my computer which was an HP windows based machine. Unfortunately my computer has a malfunctioning motherboard and will no longer turn on. I removed the hard drive ...
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IPSec VPN Debian Squeeze Server for Mac OS X
I'm trying to get an IPSec VPN set up on my Debian home server, so that I can access my home network and browse without having my internet filtered by my college network, and so that I can perform ...
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Does HylaFax server run in OS X?
From their FAQ:
HylaFAX is intended to run on any UNIX system that supports a particular set of features: FIFO special files, BSD-style sockets and the TCP/IP communication protocols, BSD-style ...
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How to fix link error under CMake for class QX11Info on Mac OS X
I'm trying to build kxstitch, which is designed for Linux, on OS X. I've gotten most of the way there by installing MacPorts, XCode, KDE, etc. and making minor changes to the build file, but am ...
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Dual boot Fedora 16 with OS X refit
Having trouble with installing Fedora 16 on my Macbook Pro. While the installation itself completes without and issues, the bootloader doesn't install correctly.
I have rEFIt, which I already have ...
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Convert ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 using OSX' .bash_profile
When running certain rails scripts in OSX' Terminal, I get warnings such as the following:
unable to convert "\xA9" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ...
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Readline menu-complete on OS X
I'm trying to test out using the menu-complete on OS X 10.8, and it's just not working. I have it in my .inputrc as such:
"\M-s": menu-complete
I then tried to do C-x C-r to reload the .inputrc and ...
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os-prober not detecting Arch install
I'm triple booting osx, win 7 and arch on an apple macbook pro 8,2
I've followed the guide specific for my macbook pro here:
Macbook Pro 8,2 Arch Installation
As well as the beginners install guide ...
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Display 'PRI' and 'NI' via 'top -stats'
I'm trying to create a script that prints top stat for some specific fields (e.g. pid, command, priority, nice value). I can print most of them by using -stats option, but there is no arg for ni and ...
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Triple Boot - Mac, Windows, Backtrack
This was the closest stackexchange site I could find to something of this nature.
Currently, I own a Macbook Pro with a Bootcamp Partition (Win7), a Mac Partition (OS X Lion), and the Recovery ...
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Quickly check whether many network hosts are up-and-running
Objective: check if a host is up-and-running on the network,
with a method that can be efficiently parallelized over many hosts.
Emphasis on a QUICK turnaround of the check.
Reason to emphasise ...
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How to prevent ELinks from staying in scrollback buffer?
After quitting elinks, the browser page history is lingering in my scrollback buffer, and therefore not returning to whatever was buffered on screen when I launched elinks.
Inside a GNU screen with ...
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Finding/Mounting USB Device in Mac OS X 10.8
I've looked all over and found similar questions and answers and none seem to work for me or match what I see. I should add I'm new to UNIX and the OS X command line but have got a basic overview to ...
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How do I fix my FastCGI Pinax / Django deployment?
I'm running OSX Lion (posted here because this is a Unix-specific question), and am trying to deploy a Pinax project via FCGI. I have the FastCGI daemon running:
$ ps wwaux | grep fcgi
jonathan ...
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How to specify command line options for XAMPP for Mac?
Per the answer to this question:
Can I have conditional statements, based on server, in .htaccess file?
I want to specify a command-line option when starting up Apache on my Mac. But my Apache is ...
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xfce swap command and control keys
What is the equivalent of this in Debian XFCE?:
Go into System -> Preferences -> Keyboard
Click on the "Layouts" tab and then click the "Layout Options" button.
Click on "Alt/Win key ...
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Why does my Mountain Lion computer have Apache 2.2.22 shut down almost as soon as it starts?
[Sun Apr 21 17:29:00 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sun Apr 21 17:30:15 2013] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
httpd: Could not reliably determine ...
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Installing required libs/frameworks/packages for compilation on OSX
I'm trying to compile SmartSim for OSX Lion, and at the moment I'm at the ./configure stage.
Here is a dump of what I've managed to get so far:
$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... ...
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How to mimic bash tab completion behavior on OS X when using Linux
I'm an OS X user who's used to ssh'ing into various Linux machines. Recently, I installed Ubuntu on one of our servers and have noticed very different tab completion behavior in bash. Among other ...
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Rsync seems to back up files that haven't been opened or changed
I have started using rsync to back some data on my mac to an external HD. It works really well, but I have noticed something odd. Every time I run the command, I get a list of files that haven't been ...
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programming an Atmel Board with a USB to Serial converter, in Eclipse
I am actually trying to program an Atmel Evk1100 board directly from Mac OSX.
My MCU is UC3A0512
I used to use Atmel32 Studio on Windows, but It looks like there no Mac Version.
So, from what I've ...
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MPD error on OSX: “problems setting volume”
Getting this error when trying to set volume with MPC on OSX:
error: problems setting volume
Here's a snippet of my .mpdconf:
audio_output {
type "osx"
name "OSX"
mixer_type "software"
}
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rsync a mac on linux box, --delete not working
I have a mac Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0. One of its folders is called source. I want to back it up on a remote linux folder called destination.
My problem: whatever I try, I cannot make the rsync ...
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Make Mac executable with MonoDevelop
I am on Ubuntu, using MonoDevelop and I would like to port my applications to Mac OS X. I have found mkbundle on this question, but that only makes Linux executables I believe.
I would also like to ...
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Replacing Ubuntu 12.04 with Backtrack 5 R3 dual boot with Mac OSX Mountain Lion
I installed ubuntu 12.04 to run alongside my osx on my 2011 macbook air and would like to remove ubuntu completely to boot replace it with backtrack. I deleted the partition where ubuntu was located ...
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Linux Mint freezes while downloading eclipse
I installed linux mint on parallels on my mac computer. It seemed to work fine and then, while downloading eclipse from Software Manager the entire system froze when it got to 40%. I've tried ...
