Tag Archives: Macintosh

Mac – Add Login items – Startup programs for all user

Posted on June 28, 2013 by

On the mac to have an application start automatically for all users add the application to the file “loginwindow.plist” in /Library/Preferences. An example: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”> <plist version=”1.0″> <dict> <key>AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary</key> <array> <dict> <key>Hide</key> … Continue reading →

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Image Build – Mac – AFP location files for each graduating class

Posted on June 26, 2013 by

Students have network file space on our Achilles server based on their graduating year.  I presently provide links to these locations in a common area on the Mac image. in /Library/Application Support/Williams/Network File Space/Achilles are a series of .afloc files … Continue reading →

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Mac – Apple dropped support for X11 in Mt Lion

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

  Apple move X11 development to the “crowd”.  See the post at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5293 To get X11 on Mt Lion (10.8.x), See the link at: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/    

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Mac – XCode 4 on Mt Lion

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

Apparently, Apple no longer installs the command line tools for XCode automatically.  Once you install XCode you need to go to the Preferences, then Downloads to install these as an extra step … http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11705912/upgrading-to-mountain-lion-and-xcode-4-broke-my-make  

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Mac – Software Packaging Reference

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

  A good article on re-packaging software for Macs that includes links to useful tools: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.01/2501MacEnterprise-PackagingforDistribution/index.html

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Mac – What makes a volume bootable

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

  To quote from the link below: Bootability comes down to a few simple rules: The hard drive enclosure must support booting a Macintosh (applies to external hard drives only) The computer must support booting from the interface used to … Continue reading →

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Mac – GarageBand Loops

Posted on July 19, 2012 by

GarageBand Apple Loops are stored in \Library\Audio\Apple Loops See: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1045 And — Here is a utility to download all Apple Loops to a mac: https://github.com/carlashley/appleLoops

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Training – Penn State Mac Admins Conference 2012 Videos

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

The annual Penn State Mac Administrators conference is geered toward high-end enterprise wide mac administration. Many useful videos of conference sessions are at: http://www.youtube.com/user/psumacconf/videos

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Mac – Command to remove Users “Large” and “Old” files

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

This command finds all files larger than 10 MB AND which haven’t been accessed in over 4 weeks: sudo find /Users -size +10M -atime +4w This finds the same and removes them (there is no undo!): sudo find /Users -size … Continue reading →

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