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Creating Joliet iso images on a Mac
Open Disk Utility and use the New Image from Folder menu item to create an image. Use uncompressed and use the CD/DVD master option. Use hdiutil to convert cdr to iso cd ~/Desktop hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o Master.iso Master.cdr This will create an ISO/Joliet .iso file.
Changing UID and Shell in Leopard
Since Netinfo was replaced by Directory Services in Leopard there are several user based tweaks that I like to do. This had not been a problem on my Mac Pro since I did an upgrade, but I just got a new MacBook with a fresh install of Leopard. Now there are several user based tweaks [...]
Leopard Upgrade and Parallels
Another problem I ran into is that Parallels v.3 network bridge mode stopped working. This is related to the fact that I did an upgrade and not a fresh install of the OS. Reinstalling parallels does not solve the problem. The following files need to me moved out of the way and a reboot done. [...]
Leopard and Photoshop v. 7
I just upgraded to Leopard and so far the first big problem I found is that Photoshop v.7 will not work. Granted this is an old version and designed to run in both classic and OS X, which I suspect is the cause of the problem.
Set Hostname for OS X
Append or edit /etc/hostconfig with the following: HOSTNAME=”machine.your.domain”
X11 and Terminal.app
Add this to /etc/profile: # added to allow X11 applications to run if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] then export DISPLAY=:0.0 fi And this to /etc/csh.cshrc: # added to allow X11 applications to run if (! $?DISPLAY) then setenv DISPLAY :0.0 endif
