Category Archives: Mac OS X

Keyboard Shortcut: hold option & press g. Link to other symbols

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Append or edit /etc/hostconfig with the following: HOSTNAME=”machine.your.domain”

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 … Continue reading →