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- How to start sshd on OS X - To start sshd on OS X (on Leopard on a Mac Mini in my case, though I doubt it makes a difference): System Preferences -> Internet & Wireless section -> Sharing icon -> tick Remote Login. You should now be able to ssh and scp to the compu...
- Apple keyboard - Notes about the keys necessary to get certain characters or behaviour on Apple’s mini keyboard. General Character/action Key strokes ~ Alt-n # Alt-3 Page up/down ...
- OS X home directory - It seems that OS X (Snow Leopard) has a /home directory that is mounted but unused. You can not delete it: rm: home: Resource is busy Just making note of the fact, because it really threw me when I wrote a script and accidentally wrote ‘home’ inst...
- OS X ethernet setup - OS X Leopard on mac mini wouldn’t connect via ethernet, with “cable unplugged” message (or similar). Solution… Router side, I assigned an IP to the mac address via static DHCP. In mini network settings, advanced section, changed to manual instead...
- MAMP setup - MAMP is a web server stack for Mac. These note give step by step instructions on how to set up a site on MAMP. We’ll call the site “testsite”. It will be configured as a “virtual host”, as this approach will allow you to easily run multiple sites loca...
- File sharing with Mac OSX - To browse files on a Linux machine from a Mac, install netatalk on the Linux box. This will provide AFP support. On gentoo… emerge -av netatalk Then start the afpd service: /etc/init.d/afpd start On the Mac you should now be able to bring up th...
