Category: osx Server

  • Movist…..will it be the next VLC for mac….

    The answer to that is maybe, we’ll see. But all that aside if you’re interested in a minimalistic video player that can handle more codecs than VLC and is generally faster then give Movist a try. The unique thing about the player is that it allows you to switch codec engines between ffmpeg and quicktime…

  • ._ resource fork files don’t work properly in OSX 10.6 Samba……

    Well the title is a bit misleading…..here are the details. I found out that if you have a NTFS native shared directory on your server, everything works fine as long as you’re using OSX 10.5 (Leopard) or below as a client. You can move files from Leopard and/or Tiger clients to the share and as…

  • Hiding Files and Folders in OSX Finder…..

    If you ever have a need to simply hide extraneous files and/or folder entries in Finder you can use the following command:chflags hidden ~/MoviesThis example will hide the “Movies” folder from showing up in Finder. There is a easy way to get to the folder if you decide to later on, just go to Finder’s…

  • Elgato turbo.264 HD video encoding coprocessor review…….

    I just picked one of these babies up from the apple store and after testing it a bit for the past hour, I have one word for it: WOW. This little guy is no gimmick, it’s zippy as hell and it does exactly what they say it would. The details for the device are on…

  • WineBottler makes running Windows Applications in OSX simpler……

    Let’s be clear on this, Wine, which is what WineBottler uses, lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows without the need for a emulator or virtual machine. Not every program works yet, however there are already several million…

  • Freshclam error "Incorrect argument format for option –checks (-c)" after Leopard update

    Someone must have screwed up something in the freshclam plist as part of the update for Leopard (2009-05). I was getting this error constantly in my system.log which was not only annoying as hell, but also kept clam from downloading new virus definitions. Anyways, here is how you fix it. use sudo and edit the…

  • Synergy+ lets you share a mouse and keyboard between several computers.

    I’ve been using Synergy for about 3 years now and never really thought about writing about it. Tonight I came across Synergy+ which is a maintenance fork of the original Synergy. So I thought about writing a small note about it since it’s now maintained again. Synergy+ (synergy-plus) lets you easily share a single mouse…

  • Safari 4.0 crashes upon exit under OSX 10.5.7

    I’ve had this problem ever since Safari 4.0 came out a little while ago. The symptoms are simple, when you close a Safari window it crashes. I reported it the first couple of times to Apple using crash reporter, then I started to look around for a solution, but to no avail. I gave up…

  • OSX 10.5: How to create a public share folder…..

    This problem has been around (I think) ever since the introduction of POSIX permissions. In pre-10.5 versions you could sorta do something like this by changing the default umask on the system, but that was system wide and applied to all folders/files a user created on the entire filesystem…..not nice. The real question is how…

  • OSX 10.5: How to delete user accounts from Command Line….

    I ran into this problem a little while back and thought I should document it. It’s kinda similar to the “How to get Admin rights in OSX Leopard using single user mode…” document from earlier this year. Here is the procedure: Boot into single user mode. Hold Command-s at startup. Check the filesystem: /sbin/fsck -fy…