Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Named Darwin, it has a Mach kernel and FreeBSD heritage.
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IPFW Port Forwarding
This is my situation: I want to connect to an OpenVPN server from my office (we're using a proxy, only ports 80 and 443 are allowed).
Server IP address is: 176.31.250.232:843
My static IP address ...
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Can I get WCHAN from ps on Mac OS X 10.7.4?
From the manual it seems that ps -AO wchan should tell me what everything is sleeping on, but everything comes up as -. (And nwchan as 0). Did they do away with the old sleep()/tsleep() interface in ...
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WPA pre-shared key format in linux and macintosh
I'm temporarily in a situation where the wifi network I need to use is implemented using Macintosh equipment. They have encoded their network using WPA and TKIP. I can't seem to get onto their network ...
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Diacritics do not work in GTK+ applications running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I am using some GTK+ applications in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. My MacBook is configured for using the Brazilian layout, which allows it to enter diacritics as dead keys (so I can write รก typing ' and ...
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A real non-“better touch tools” solution for select-to-copy on Mac OS X
I recently moved to Mac. I am missing my X11 copy-paste style.
I can't find a way to exactly emulate X11 behavior "select-to-copy", "middle-click-to-paste" globally on Mac OS X.
I am aware that this ...
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How do I detect a copy event in Finder?
I am trying to strip formatting from text copied from my Illustrator docs. Someone accurately pointed out to me that running pbpaste | pbcopy via command-line will perform this action on text in the ...
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Boot linux bootloader from Mac OSX
Recently I was running Fedora 17 on my computer which was an HP windows based machine. Unfortunately my computer has a malfunctioning motherboard and will no longer turn on. I removed the hard drive ...
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IPSec VPN Debian Squeeze Server for Mac OS X
I'm trying to get an IPSec VPN set up on my Debian home server, so that I can access my home network and browse without having my internet filtered by my college network, and so that I can perform ...
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Does HylaFax server run in OS X?
From their FAQ:
HylaFAX is intended to run on any UNIX system that supports a particular set of features: FIFO special files, BSD-style sockets and the TCP/IP communication protocols, BSD-style ...
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How to fix link error under CMake for class QX11Info on Mac OS X
I'm trying to build kxstitch, which is designed for Linux, on OS X. I've gotten most of the way there by installing MacPorts, XCode, KDE, etc. and making minor changes to the build file, but am ...
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Dual boot Fedora 16 with OS X refit
Having trouble with installing Fedora 16 on my Macbook Pro. While the installation itself completes without and issues, the bootloader doesn't install correctly.
I have rEFIt, which I already have ...
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Readline menu-complete on OS X
I'm trying to test out using the menu-complete on OS X 10.8, and it's just not working. I have it in my .inputrc as such:
"\M-s": menu-complete
I then tried to do C-x C-r to reload the .inputrc and ...
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os-prober not detecting Arch install
I'm triple booting osx, win 7 and arch on an apple macbook pro 8,2
I've followed the guide specific for my macbook pro here:
Macbook Pro 8,2 Arch Installation
As well as the beginners install guide ...
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Display 'PRI' and 'NI' via 'top -stats'
I'm trying to create a script that prints top stat for some specific fields (e.g. pid, command, priority, nice value). I can print most of them by using -stats option, but there is no arg for ni and ...
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Triple Boot - Mac, Windows, Backtrack
This was the closest stackexchange site I could find to something of this nature.
Currently, I own a Macbook Pro with a Bootcamp Partition (Win7), a Mac Partition (OS X Lion), and the Recovery ...
