HowTo - Mac OS X

May 27, 2009

How to start VNC remotely on a Mac OS X

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Mac OS X No comments

Once you get SSH’d in you can change the VNC password and start the VNC service using the following command:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -setvncpw -vncpw VNCPASSWORDHERE -restart -agent
So have fun remoting your box!  Btw to VNC over SSH just type something like: “ssh -L 5903:localhost:5900 example.com “.  You can then VNC [...]


Oct 21, 2008

DeployStudio

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Mac OS X, Software Reviews No comments

Saving time is a daily concern for system administrator, especially with the increase of minor interventions requested by end-users: accidentally modified system preferences, third-party applications instability or misconfigured, wrong access rights, viruses, etc…
Mac OS X is stable and robust but the capacity to (re)install completely a workstation or a server in a few minutes following [...]


Oct 2, 2008

How do I flush DNS?

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - General, HowTo - Linux, HowTo - Mac OS X, HowTo - Windows 3 comments

Most DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. This speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address, such as is common when browsing the web.
Sometimes a bad DNS entry will be cached and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or [...]


Sep 17, 2008

Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC

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Feel like stepping beyond the limits of Apple hardware? Want a Mac netbook for under $650? How about an EeePC running Mac OS X?
At least part of the appeal of the dimunitive EeePC netbook is its hackability — from Linux to Vista, intrepid hackers have figured out how to [...]


Sep 2, 2008

Apple Qmaster Render Farm Setup

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Tested Compressor and Qmaster render farm setup.
Here you can look at the settings and configuration of the setup that I am currently using, Nov 29/07

You need to install Compressor and Qmaster on all of the machines that you are going to cluster together.
I have installed Final Cut Studio 2 on all of the machines

You need [...]