Tag Archives: Macintosh

Mac – PaperCut – PCClient – running as LaunchD instead of login

Posted on June 27, 2016 by

Starting PCClient as a LaunchAgent instead of as a “login item” may help speed up user login … See the not at: http://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/MacClientStartupWithLaunchd

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Mac – R – Where “packages” are stored

Posted on February 10, 2016 by

The software R is open source and people are adding packages constantly. On the Mac these live in the directory: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library More details see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2615128/where-does-r-store-packages

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Mac – Un-mount Windows partition from Startup Items

Posted on January 25, 2016 by

See: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14231-how-to-unmount-windows-partition-on-startup/

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Mac – Fusion Drive Format

Posted on January 14, 2016 by

In certain circumstances, Bootcamp can mess up Fusion drive formatting. Here is a detailed posting of how to recover your drive. It basically entails, booting the Internet Recovery from Apple Restart by pressing alt cmd R at startup and then … Continue reading →

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Mac – Disable/Enable Gatekeeper from command line

Posted on November 24, 2015 by

GateKeeper is the application on Mac OS 10.8 and above that prevents running applications from unknown sources. On the “Lab” image this can not be enabled since many of the older academic software programs would not be able to run. … Continue reading →

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Mac – Mavericks — AFP shares need to become SMB shares

Posted on August 14, 2014 by

With Mavericks, Apple is moving farther away from AFP support. It’s time to change our AFP points in our Network Shares to smb pointers. Two commands come in very handy to find and replace the needed text in the files … Continue reading →

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Mac – Setting “default” printer

Posted on July 23, 2014 by

Setting a “default” printer on Mac – Printers are listed to the mac user on the drop down menu in alphabetic order so you need to add “A” to the beginning of the name of the default printer if the … Continue reading →

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Mac – Find all copies of files

Posted on February 21, 2014 by

Very useful when wondering if someone added something some where …. Best run as root: find / -name ‘Acrobat*’

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