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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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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Shorter timeout on I/O errors MacOS X
How do you set a shorter timeout value for read/write I/O errors on MacOSX?
We tend to get a few semicrashed disks and want to rsync the contents to a secure location, but when the file subsystem ...
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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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can't access account with empty password
I used the passwd command to remove the password for my account. Now, when I try to use su to log in to my account, it won't let me enter an empty password. So now, I can't access my account. Any ...
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How can I add a kMDItemWhereFroms attribute to a file in OS X?
xattr command alone doesn't add a text URL in the proper format, since I inspected a file with Rixstep's Xattr.app and such attribute is a binary plist.
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I've been tinkering around. This prints ...
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Change 4 mirrored HDDs to RAID 10
My boss has a large computer (12-core, 4 HDD computer that we use for scientific computing) and he has all of the HDDs mirrored. Is it possible to change this to RAID 10 without data loss and without ...
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Can't unlock a file for path change
I'm trying to order the path entries on my mac, but it seems that my /etc/paths file is Locked.
I tried the instructions on this link, but I can't save the file as it is locked. I even tried chflags ...
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Scheduling cronjobs at specified time
I have scheduled some jobs in crontab which are to be run one by one, at some specific time. My script for crontab is :
15 10 * * * /Users/sri/files/BatchFF.sh
45 11 * * * /Users/sri/files/BatchGC.sh
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Convert ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 using OSX' .bash_profile
When running certain rails scripts in OSX' Terminal, I get warnings such as the following:
unable to convert "\xA9" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ...
