Aug
22
Recently I installed Adobe CS5 on my Mac Book Pro and started getting “To Open CS5ServiceManager you need a java runtime.” 1. I checked My User account under system preferences and could not locate any Adobe Items. 2. Checked Adobe Settings to see if I could remove whatever was being loaded through their… nope 3. …
Aug
02
Every now and then you may be presented with the situation where you don’t know the administrator password to your Mac and you need to reset. I have tested these methods on Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard Server and Lion. The easiest way is to pop in your OS X install disc, boot into installer and …
Jun
02
Earlier this week Apple released Security Update 2011-003 to combat the Mac Defender Trojan horse and other malware. Within hours of the release of the security update a another variant of the Mac Defender Trojan was released into the wild. To combat malware Apple included the ability for Security Update 2011-003 to automatically update it’s …
May
24
After updating Snow Leopard Server 10.6.6 & 10.6.7 many users are finding that visiting sites that contain Adobe Flash elements causes Safari or Firefox to freeze or crash. This is an issue with Adobe Flash itself and can be resolved by installing Flash Player 10.3 RC1. It can be downloaded here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10-3.html
Apr
03
Screen sharing sharing is an excellent tool to allow remote use of the GUI on your Mac OS X server. Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server both include very useful tools that allow you to both setup and utilize remote screen sharing. In addition their are other tools available that perform similar tasks such as …
Nov
25
By default in Snow Leopard Server it is not possible to run the screensaver at the login window. Some may wish to have the screensaver run on at login to prevent burn in on a monitor. With a little terminal work you can! Step 1: sudo plutil -convert xml1 /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist Step 2: sudo nano /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist …
Nov
19
Prior to Mac OS X v10.6, the only way for a network administrator to disable Bonjour advertising of services was to completely disable the mDNSResponder process, which also disabled Bonjour discovery of services (such as discovering network printers). Thankfully, the OS X devs were listening to us. Now it is possible to disable mDNSResponder without completely disabling …
Nov
01
Hello, Today I’m going to give a brief overview of how to setup the web server is OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard. Both of these operating systems come pre-installed with the Apache web server. There are many options that you can configure along the way. This document will assume that you at least have …
Nov
01
Make sure you have your new Static IP Address, Subnet Mask, Router(Gateway), and DNS Server information. 1. Open System Preferences 2. In the section labeled “Internet & Wireless” select the “Network” icon. 3. On the left hand side select the “Ethernet” interface. 4. You will now see a dropdown that says “Configure IPv4″ change this …
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