Sam's Geek Log » Mac OS X

Copyright Symbol on A Mac

scoker3 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:39:40 +0000

Keyboard Shortcut:

hold option & press g.

Creating Joliet iso images on a Mac

scoker3 — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:02:42 +0000

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

scoker3 — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:07:54 +0000

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 I like to make. I change my UID to my standard one; it makes file sharing and remote work much easier. I am also a tcsh user. So there are two ways to adjust this sans NetInfo

1) GUI — Go to System Preferences > Accounts and right click (control-click) on the user you wish to modify. An advance window will appear and you can make changes here.

2) CLI — su – to root and run dscl

su –
dscl localhost
cd /Local/Default/Users

You can see all users by doing an ls and you can see the attributes of the users by catting the user (e.g. cat someuser ). Man dscl and man 8 DirectoryServices will give more info on changing attributes.

Leopard Upgrade and Parallels

scoker3 — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:02:32 +0000

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.

After the reboot a fresh install of parallels fixed the problem. Interestingly Fusion did not have the same problems.

Leopard and Photoshop v. 7

scoker3 — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:54:09 +0000

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

scoker3 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:57:58 +0000

Append or edit /etc/hostconfig with the following:

HOSTNAME="machine.your.domain"

X11 and Terminal.app

scoker3 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:17:31 +0000

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