Year: 2012

  • SSH to your remote machine using Back to My Mac iCloud Service

    This is kinda cool. It only works if you have access to “Back to My Mac” service and you have it turned on in the remote mac’s preferences (under iCloud preferences). If you ever need to find out the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of your remote mac and connect to it via ssh or…

  • Turn off Parallels Promo Ads….

    This has been driving me mad ever since I started using Parallels Desktop for Mac. The damn promo screen that keeps popping up to sell me some crapware. Well here is a quick defaults command to turn it off defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES Done…..Enjoy :-)

  • R.I.P. Jack Tramiel

    Probably one of the least known people in modern computing, Jack Tramiel, the man who brought us Commodore (and later on Atari Corp.) has passed away at age 83.

  • Get the “Bounce” command back in Mail application under OSX Lion

    The “Bounce” command is really useful for those times when you’re receiving spam mail that gives you no recourse to opt-out. Usually Ads and announcements have a link to unsubscribe, but if they don’t I usually just “bounce” the mail back to the sender and that usually causes the sender to take me off their…

  • Synology NAS and those pesky @eaDir folders

    If you’ve enabled MediaServer and/or PhotoStation on your Synology NAS you might have noticed a bunch of “@eaDir” folders inside your data folders. You will not normally see this under samba or appletalk connections. I noticed it since I was trying to rsync from synology to a old qnap nas I have lying around. Although…

  • Getting apache mod_status and mod_info to play nicely with wordpress…..

    After reading many (too many) posts about this subject that did not work, I finally found a way to get this working. If you have a wordpress site setup you will, at some point during the installation, be told to copy a bunch of “redirect” code to your .htaccess file in your wordpress installation folder.…

  • Synology DSM3.2 and older rsync implementations….

    Got my hands on a new Synology 1511+ a few days ago and discovered something odd. Where as before on the QNAP TS-409 Pro I could easily turn on the rsync server and start syncing files/folders off my OSX machine, the process did not work with the new Synology NAS running DSM3.2. I kept getting…