Does anyone know of some good Mac software to sync a network attached storage device or a drobo to Amazon S3?
I'd love to mail them a storage device for the first dump and then do nightly syncs.
I am trying to run the Safari browser (on Mac OS 10.4) from the command line, as follows:
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari http://localhost/dev/myfile.html
However, Safari starts up and tries to access
file:///Users/charlesanderson/scripts/http://localhost/dev/myfile.html
/Users/charlesanderson/scripts happens to be my current directory.
Can someone explain why Safari does this? Firefox is much better behaved?
As admin (root) for a group of computers, I have to now install a content filter on a shared Mac, to first catch illegal downloads, and to prevent future peer to peer DL by monitoring. I can install the OSX app for myself (as admin) and have it run for any new users, but I have to have it installed and enabled it for existing users.
How can I install an OSX app, to run for normal users, when it requires that it be install as admin (root) for each user?
I wasn't able to run X11 or Terminal after rebooting my Mac. After digging around, I got them to work when I commented-out this line in my .cshrc:
xset b off
It appears that xset will attempt to launch X11 if it isn't running already, and since X11 will launch the default shell through xterm and thus encounter the xset line above, we will have an infinite loop.
I would like to keep the above line in my .cshrc. Is there a way to prevent X11 from launching itself?
I'm a new user of Mac OS X on my laptop. Currently I have Windows 7 and OS X on the same machine.
I can't figure out how to use the desktop correctly, no hard drive show, no right clicks, etc. Can someone explain the difference?
Hello!
2 days ago I found out that iTunes interface become buggy. Here are some screenshots:
UI bugs in listview headers:
iTunes doesn't download app icons in App Store:
CoverFlow doesn't show album arts:
Finder and other apps are working well, without any artifacts.
Macbook 062 (Intel C2D 2.13, GMA950), Mac OS X 10.6.2, iTunes 9.0.2.
I have reinstalled iTunes via Apple's site - nothing.
What do you advice to do?
I'm a happy owner of a hackintosh-ed Dell Mini 9. I would love to hear the success stories from other people who have managed to install Mac OS X successfully on other brands and models of netbooks.
"Exceptionally friendly" here is defined as having, at minimum, fully functioning wireless, sound and graphics when installed with an unmodified version of OS X Leopard.
What I am wanting to do is create a home radio station that I can have my friends listen to on our speakers throughout the house. I will use Djay to DJ the station and I was wondering how to stream the audio from Djay on my MacBook (Where I will be DJ'ing) to a Mac Mini (Where the audio will be sent to the speakers from).
Thanks in advance!
When I log into my mac on 10.6.3 I get the following error in my console
29/05/2010 19:11:43 prometheus rpc.statd[109] Warning Failed to contact host aphrodite.lan: RPC: Unknown host
Now I know that rpc is trying to contact a non existent host but what I can't figure out is why and how to stop it.
Any ideas?
I just bought a magic mouse and connected it to my mac computer. The only things that are working are the right and left click. It is not even bringing up that scrolling thing in system preferences. Does anyone know what could be wrong?
Hi,
I am using MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.5). On the status bar, check I click the Wireless icon, it said 'Open Network Preferences'
And then in the Network Preference, I click 'AirPort' tab, the status said 'Inactive' But the 'Turn AirPort on' is disabled and the Network Name is disabled as well.
I have unlocked the preference pane as well.
So how can I turn on Airport?
Thank you.
No obvious problems with my Mac OS X 10.5 system, but Drive Genius 1.5.1 says: "Invalid catalog btree reverse link in node" when doing a "Verify"
The "repair" and "rebuild" options fail.
I did some googling, and the consensus as:
1- Drive Genius is slightly better than Disk Warrior
2- This problem is likely not fixable.
My assumed solution is that I should do a full backup and re-format.
How can I do an inverse ARP lookup in Windows and/or Linux? Say that I have the MAC address of wireless access point which is up and running in the network, but I forgot it's IP address?
I found out yesterday that you can use a remote control with a Mac. And I've also heard that iSight web cams can be programmed to detect any kind of movements?
What are some other cool/interesting features that a user new to Macs wouldn't likely know about?
Hi
I need to control a Windows 7 PC via VNC from a Mac in an office LAN. Since the IPs are dynamically assigned, I'd like the PC to appear in my "Places" and in the automatically detected nearby servers in VNC client I'm using -- both of which require the PC to advertise its VNC server via Bonjour (right?).
I tried installing ultravnc, which works when I access it directly by IP, but it doesn't seem to advertise itself in the network.
Any ideas?
Hi, I'm using Snow Leopard and I've just downloaded Google Chrome for Mac. However it doesn't load any page:
This webpage is not available.
Error 104 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_FAILED): The attempt to connect to the server failed.
I've googled about it but I had no luck, only answers for Windows. Needless to say I have no firewalls and every other browser or application can connect to the internet.
My hard disk crashed and I need to reinstall Mac OS X. I restart, insert the installation DVD, press c on the keyboard and the dvd ejects. I've tried different DVDs, even CDs. It's a Macbook Pro from march 2008.
Is it broken? Or can it be something more severe like the firewire controller on the motherboard (since I noticed this after my hard drive started to act strangely)? I've ran Apple Hardware Test successfully.
Hi,
I am starting to use Quicksilver in Mac OS X. At the moment I just know how to "call it" (CMD+I in my case) and open an app. I wonder how could I do, once itunes is running, just to tell to stop playing a song, using QS, and if not, someother workaround, just using Keyboard, in the simplest possible wy.
Thanks
Software Update has notified me of a new OSX system update (including the Mac App Store). It claims to be about 1.6GB in size. I have 4.6GB of free space on my hard drive. However, when I attempt to actually run the update, it fails because it claims to need 6.9GB of free space. Is there any particular reason Software Update needs so much space beyond the downloaded file size and are there any work arounds?
Thanks.
I am using RealVNC server Enterprise on the Mac.
Real VNC Enterprise Viewer on PC.
I am able to connect it properly but colors are weird, 16 colors or only blue color is showing up (see below)
How do I resolve this?
I have installed squid on a mac mini and would like to configure it to be used as a proxy
Any ideas where i would start, especially setting up the ACLs, am using webmin as the GUI tool for configuring squid
Did anyone else notice the picture quality degrade after uploading to picasa web albums from Picasa 3.5 Mac?
I uploaded them in the original setting which is 1600 by 1200 and did selected the option to not compress jpg quality. On picasa web albums however, I notice that the colors look faded and the picture are a bit grainy.
Anyone have the same problems? Any alternatives to an album sharing site with easy upload from picasa or iphoto?
I'm basically looking for something like this but available on Mac.
I am trying to connect a new workstation to our wireless multifunction printer and I'm having a hell of a time getting the device to spit out an IP for me to connect to.
Is there a way I can scan the network somehow?
If it makes a difference, the new workstation is using MacOS X 10.6
Thanks in advance :)
My Macbook Pro already dual boots MacOSX or Ubuntu with ReFit. I would like to add Windows 7 in the mix. I can make enough space in the Mac partition to accomodate that, but just want to be sure the Windows installation is not going to wipe out anything and I will still be able to access both OS.
Anything else to watch out for is welcome.
(Sorry for not posting a question about an actual problem, but I figured that when I have a problem, it will just be too late).
I use VMWare Fusion on Mac OSX and backup my system with Time Machine. Now I read, that this will not backup my virtual machine with usable results. What are my possibilities to back up my virtual machine?