If you are running Mac OS X 10.8 and have installed Java 7, as well as the latest Java Update from Apple (Java 2013-002) and have found that some things don’t work with Java 7, and you wish to change back to having version 6 as your default Java installation, then you can download the …
Category Archives: Command Line
Remove Multiple ‘Open With’ Menu Items – Command Line
So, I had this annoying situation the other day, when I CTRL Clicked on a file and chose Open With, I was presented with this menu Multiple versions of Excel and Word to choose from, probably caused by software updates, anyway, I didn’t like this, it made the menu looked cluttered, so to remove it, …
Creating never booted images – 10.8 – InstaDMG
I’m going to run through the process of creating a never booted image using InstaDMG on Mac OS X 10.8, Once this has been done it will be ready to deploy using Deploystudio. First, you will need to ensure that you have the Command Line Tools installed, you can download them from the Apple Developer …
Managed Preferences – Cache Flush
The other day I was trying to access some restricted preferences on a 10.6 client, bound to a 10.6 Server that no longer existed, and because of this, I had no way of removing the restrictions Or so I thought, thankfully Apple had provided a Knowledge Base article detailing how to manually flush the cache, …
Setting your Computer ‘Names’ – Command Line
Now some of you may not be aware that your computer even has 1 name, let alone 3, but here I will explain how to set them. First, by default, your ‘Computer Name’ is set by the Operating System when you initially set your machine up, and it tends to use your account long …
CUPS – Web Interface disabled
If you’ve been trying to access the CUPS web interface on Mac OS X 10.8 then you may have run into this error message “The web interface is currently disabled. Run “cupsctl WebInterface=yes” to enable it” (to access CUPS, Open Safari & type http://localhost:631 in the address bar) To rectify this, you basically do as …
SugarSync Issues – not syncing
SugarSync is a cloud based data syncing service, similar to Dropbox, but with a higher storage allocation for a free account (5GB as opposed to 2GB with Dropbox) and a few other features which put it above Dropbox in terms of value. For a full list of benefits versus other cloud syncing services, check out …
USB Key Labelled EFI Boot
If you have created a Mac OS X bootable USB Key and it shows up as EFI Boot when you are at the boot selection menu then you can rectify this via the following Terminal command sudo bless –folder /Volumes/VOLUMENAME/System/Library/CoreServices –bootefi replace VOLUMENAME with the name of your USB Volume, so I named my 10.8 …
Add a user to the Print Operator group
To add a non administrative user to the Print Operators group, you need to enter the following command into a Terminal window sudo dseditgroup -o edit -u ADMINISTRATOR -p -a USER -t user _lpadmin You will need to replace ADMINISTRATOR with the shortname of an admin account & you will need to replace USER with …
VNC into another Mac – Command Line
To open a VNC connection to another Mac from the Command Line is very simple, you just need to open Terminal and enter the following open vnc://username@IPADDRESS This will then launch the screen sharing app and connect to the machine requested, you will then be presented with a login box, so enter the password for …